Jeremy Clarkson Reacts To Rising Used Car Prices before Slamming Richard And James: “I Won!”
The Grand Tour presenters, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, have made a living out of competing with each other. Top Gear was packed full of the trio racing and arguing over which car was faster, and this doesn’t stop when the cameras are turned off.
With the presenters slowing down The Grand Tour and pulling their focus towards other solo projects such as Clarkson’s Farm and Our Man In Japan, there has to be some form of competition going on between the trio. Now, Jeremy Clarkson has joked that he has “won” when it comes to the success of their solo shows after Clarkson’s Farm has become bigger than any of us expected it to be.
Writing for his Sunday Times column, he said the following:
“Well they took me on and I won, didn’t I?
“I won!”
Farming hasn’t pulled him away from his passion for cars, however, as he recently reviews the Audi RS3. In this piece, he admits that he hasn’t bought a used car recently because of how expensive they’ve become, which he blames on the shortage of microchips.
The average modern car uses 1,400 chips which are used in almost every part of the car from braking to the satnav. Thanks to this shortage, there are now long waiting times for new cars, driving the demand for used cars and upping their value. In fact, Jeremy writes that people’s “crummy rust buckets” are now one of their most valuable assets.
The Grand Tour presenter is angered by this, as he now needs to wait 6 months for his new Range Rover.
He says on the subject:
“We bought an Audi RS4 for a Grand Tour film that had to be postponed because of the pandemic.
“And today it’s worth £8,000 more than it was 18 months ago.”
But it’s not just Audis, according to the presenter, but other cars as well.
“The AA backs this up, saying that a three-year-old Mini, in 2019, would have cost £9,800, whereas today it would be £15,400.
“In the same time frame an Audi A3 has gone up by 46 per cent, and rises of 30 per cent or more are common across the board.
“That crummy little rust bucket on your drive is now the most valuable thing you own.”
