If it has an engine and uses a lot of fuel, rest assured that Jeremy Clarkson will keep you entertained!
Often known as the broadcaster and host of shows like Top Gear and The Grand Tour, the famous, loved and hilarious Jeremy Clarkson has a long history of hosting TV shows and creating content about things that have engines and usually do much fossil fuel consume.
One of his lesser known shows that aired on the BBC TWO channel was Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines. Originally broadcast in 1998, this show consists of six episodes documenting the craziest and most intriguing machine masterpieces in human history.
From speedboats made with the utmost attention to detail with twin V8s, to military Apache helicopters, to man’s greatest moving creation, Jeremy Clarkson and his crew offer up-close, live-action montages of the world’s most extreme machines.
Jeremy Clarkson’s experience hosting shows
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A lot of people know Jeremy Clarkson for hosting two of the most famous auto shows of all time. BBC’s Top Gear and Amazon Prime’s The Grand Tour. But Clarkson’s record as a broadcaster and television presenter doesn’t end there.
Before Jeremy Clarkson became one of the biggest faces in auto entertainment, he first worked as a traveling salesman for his parents’ business. He later trained as a journalist and became a local journalist in northern England.
In the last column he wrote for Top Gear Magazine in 2015, he recites the work for Shropshire Star (a newspaper in the UK) and starts at the bottom: “I started small, on the Shropshire Star with little Peugeots and Fiats and have mine worked up to Ford Granadas and Rovers, until after about seven years I was allowed to drive an Aston Martin Lagonda … It was 10 years before I drove my first Lamborghini. “
Clarkson’s first major television appearance was in 1988 as a host for the original Top Gear series. That series continued through 2000 before Clarkson redesigned the show in 2002.
The original Top Gear series brought him a tremendous amount of success and popularity. He regularly presented his own shows and documentaries in the mid-1990s, and sometimes appeared as a guest on other shows for British television.
Hosting Robot Wars in 1998, his own talk show from 1998 to 2000, named after Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld, Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorsport Mayhem, and Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines, are just some of the highlights of his television hosting career.
He currently writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun.
What made extreme machines so special
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What sets Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines apart from most of the other shows and documentaries Clarkson has put on about things with engines is the fact that they go beyond your everyday cars.
As Clarkson himself wrote about Extreme Machines, even to design a car like the McLaren F1, Gordon Murray (who designed the F1) was legally required to ensure that the car complied with multiple environmental codes and was equipped with headlights and a horn. In a way, even supercar designers are severely affected and restricted by different regulations and safety issues.
But when designers sit down to work on something like a racing snowmobile, they no longer have to make it reliable or safe. Seat belts are not required and no one really cares if they run on nitric acid. The only thing that matters is do it ASAP and make it fun.
This is what makes the list of machines documented in Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines so special. Engineers and designers can create things that drive us crazy.
Our favorite moment on extreme machines
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There are a number of crazy machines documented on Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines. But nothing matches the extreme and mind-boggling measures taken by the Viking supertanker. Jeremy Clarkson is documented in the second episode of the show and takes a tour through the years of Viking, the LARGEST moving man-made object in the world. In the end, it stood 50 feet taller than the Empire State Building.
The years Viking, the half-million-ton giant, is led by a crew of only 35 men. A short clip of the Years of Viking documentation can be found on Top Gear’s YouTube channel.
Other examples of extreme machinery like RIVA speedboats made with the same attention a surgeon would put on a patient’s body, as well as a space shuttle going up to 2,700 km / h, are also creditworthy.
If it has an engine, Clarkson can turn it into a TV show
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Jeremy Clarkson, who started out as a local journalist and went on to become one of the greatest faces not just of British television but of the entertainment industry in general, documents the world’s craziest machinery in a six-part documentary called Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines.
Clarkson’s popularity and years of experience producing and hosting shows on cars and other machines prove to us that Jeremy Clarkson can make a fun show about it as long as something has an engine!
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