In the 21 years since he first appeared on [BBC's Top Gear], the TV presenter and Sunday Times columnist has raised the ire of the Poles, the Germans, the residents of Norfolk, prostitute welfare organisations, gay rights groups and environmentalists to name but a few.
Hailed as a hero of political incorrectness and derided as deeply offensive, we can only be talking about Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson.
And here are some samples from
Clarkson's own website:
Supercars are ... designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.
Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this (the Audi R8) is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.