Clarkson on the Hamster’s crash . . . and the new Range Rover The Sunday Times, June 25 2017, 12:01am A few years ago Richard Hammond was asked to drive a car down a runway, and somehow he ended up on his head and then in a coma for a few weeks. And now, having established he can’t drive in a straight line, he has proved he can’t drive round corners either. All he had to do was drive a small electric car up a Swiss hill, which he managed, but then somehow, on a left-hand bend after the finish line, he lost control, rolled down a bank and ended up in a hospital. Again. At this rate he will get to the point where he forgets how to get undressed at night. He’ll put his clothes on in the morning and then assume they… Want to read more? Subscribe now and get unlimited digital access on web and our smartphone and tablet apps, free for your first month.
Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has fallen in love with an electric car, the Rimac Concept, he said in a column for The Times. Describing how it produces a "simply staggering" 12:01am horsepower, its exceptional acceleration and surprisingly long battery life, he summed it up as "brilliant".