The 26-year-old let rip at the luxury car marque in his new book, writing: “If you see someone driving a pickup, you can trust them. You know that if you follow them you’re going to end up at a good pub. But if you follow someone driving a Range Rover, you’ll probably end up down a back alley having your wheels stolen.
” The young farming contractor was brought in to assist Clarkson, 64, in running 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire – using his own expertise to try and teach the petrol-head-turned-wannabe-farmer the basics of the job. Now it appears he is following his boss – famed for his hilariously biting put-downs of cars during his time on Top Gear and The Grand Tour – into the realms of controversy. Writing about the best farm vehicles in his second book, It’s A Farming Thing, published today [24/10] and described as a “hilarious peek behind the scenes of life on a farm”, the Chipping Norton-born TV star admits: “A lot of farmers rave about the old Land Rover Defender.
.. but have you ever sat in one? It’s awful, like climbing inside a tank on wheels, which it basically is.
” Instead, he recommends a pickup truck with a comfy double cab as the ideal utility vehicle for farm work, adding: “You don’t want to put a dead sheep in the boot of something like a Range Rover, do you? I know they brought in the Range Rover to be a kind of luxury version of the Land Rover, but then what happened? Drug dealers bought them.” A previous memoir, T.