R.I.P. Quentin Willson

[Drago]

I never liked him. But i didn't wish him dead. RIP.

Thats pretty much my feelings.

 

[DRM]

I think he was responsible or the amount of TV presenters with the strange way of speaking where the sentence being spoken goes up, pauses halfway through, then goes back down again, Ross Kemp does the same

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I saw him on Top Gear he seemed to me to be the one who did the "car programme" properly
Clarkson was funnier and more fun - but for him that was the important bit so an accurate review of the car came second - by a long way


Then it bacame the Clarkson show - which was a great show - but not a car review show

 

[Yellow Fang]

Saw him on GB News recently. He was saying what good value electric cars were. I am pretty sure Jeremy Clarkson would not have said that.

 

[Drago]

Saw him on GB News recently. He was saying what good value electric cars were. I am pretty sure Jeremy Clarkson would not have said that.

Im also pretty sure Clarkson wouldn't clock used cars before selling them.

 

[Gunk]

What a shock, I always liked his column in Classic Car magazine, he was a proper old English gentleman

 

[Beebo]

Im also pretty sure Clarkson wouldn't clock used cars before selling them.

It was something he did when he was young and before he was famous.
Didn’t every second hand car dealer do it in the 80s.

 

[Drago]

Probably, but everyone doing it doesn't make fraud OK.

Deceiving someone else to their detriment for you own profit is bad at any age.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I generally liked him, he came up with some of the expressions before Clarkson (& not as contentious either)
Eg; about dealers “Charging like a wounded Rhino”
For me, he stuck in the mind, for championing the Land-Rover, in the series debate of ‘The Car’s The Star’
(& for owning a Stage 1 pick-up, in Java Green, that was de-restricted)



View: https://youtu.be/xC_Uahx_niU?si=jJry_kUmvYeB6OQ7

 

[Chris S]

convicted used car mileage clocker,

He looked like a second hand car dealer with his slicked back hair

 

[Homers Double]

Everyone dies, do we all get an online obituary?

 

[Drago]

Everyone dies, do we all get an online obituary?

Only if you clock a few used cars.

 

[wafter]

Didn't know about the mileage blaggery and was always a bit ambivalent about his presentation style, however have fond memories associated with him on properly-informative-watched-with-dad old Top Gear, rather than the greasy vehicle for Clarkson's ego that it later became.

 

[Dogtrousers]

people didn't want to hear William Woolard bleat on about the size of gloveboxes.

I've never heard of William Woolard but a program about gloveboxes sounds great. I'd watch it.

 

[AndyRM]

I've never heard of William Woolard but a program about gloveboxes sounds great. I'd watch it.

I hadn't either, and my main memory of Quentin Wilson on Top Gear was him warning to look for rust under wheel arches.

Didn't know about his dodgy efforts with used cars, poor form.