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In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

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Jeremy Clarkson
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 11
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Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson
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