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Jeremy Clarkson buys 9 tonne Lamborghini tractor as part of farming venture

Jeremy Clarkson’s venture into farming has seen him buy a 9 tonne Lamborghini tractor boasting an impressive 48 gears and 188 buttons.

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Jeremy Clarkson buys 9 tonne Lamborghini tractor as part of farming venture

Jeremy Clarksons venture into farming has seen him buy a 9 tonne Lamborghini tractor boasting an impressive 48 gears and 188 buttons.

The television presenter claimed the 40,000 R8 270 DCR was too big for his barn, so he had to build a new one at his 1,000-acre spread in Oxfordshire.

It is huge even the front tyres are taller than me. You have to climb up a four-rung ladder to reach the door handle, he wrote in the Sunday Times.

It is so vast, in fact, that it would not fit into my barn. I therefore had to build a new one."

Mr Clarkson admitted he also had to construct a new driveway in a bid to use the tractor, which cost in excess of 20,000, saying: Farmers are quite right, it is too big. I have never been terrified at 25mph before, but in that tractor I really was."

But he added: I admire the almighty roar from the vertical smokestack, which is a full seven inches in diameter.

When I finish a field and I climb down the ladder and sit on a fence I have just broken to enjoy a bottle of beer and a chicken sandwich, I can look back at the work I have done and feel a tiny bit proud.

Last year the former Top Gear presenter was spotted buying North of England Mules at Thame Sheep Fair.

He recently opened up a new farm shop at the property in Chipping Norton, writing on his Instagram page all produce was guaranteed non-organic.

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