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Jeremy Clarkson voted screen’s greatest automotive icon

Published 27 April 2020
By Kieran Ahuja
Jeremy Clarkson has beaten Hollywood legend Steve McQueen and three James Bonds to take the title of screen’s greatest automotive icon.
Video: Guy Martin attempts to jump barbed wire fence that foiled Steve McQueen in The Great Escape

Video: Guy Martin's Great Escape stunt

It's one of the best-known stunts in cinema: now Guy martin is attempting to recreate Steve McQueen's motorcycle leap from The Great Escape.
Published 01 December 2019