(Motor) Critic of the Week: AA Gill |
AA Gill (Adrian Anthony Gill) is a well known British critic, whose writing stems far from the British newspaper column. He has written critique on a huge range of things, offering restaurant reviews with harsh clarity. Most recently he was known as the man that Gordon Ramsey threw out (along with Joan Collins) as in a review he called him a wonderful chef, but a “second-rate human being”.
He may at times not be too everyone’s taste, but he says what he thinks, which in the end is the critics job. He has one countless awards including Times Magazine Columnist of the year and Travelex’s Travel writer of the year.
However this week we focus on some quotes from AA Gill’s latest review on the Mini Cooper S, which includes comments about his own experience with his second hand Bentley.
” There’s a boot you could pack the entire cast of The Sopranos in, and under the bonnet there appears to be a medium-sized nuclear reactor.” - Gill on His old Bentley.
” The Mini Cooper S is a tardis car. It pretends to be small and neat and sylphlike, but the driver’s bit inside is huge” – New Mini Cooper S
” Is that a tap or does it turn on the lights?” – Mini Cooper S Controls
“What it’s actually like is a contemporary comprehensive kid compared with a skinny free-milk kid of the Sixties.” – AA Gill compares the new mini with the old.
“ Secondhand Bentleys are so big that they can park in two style zones simultaneously. They’re deeply cool and fundamentally uncool at the same time” – Bentleys
” The Bentley is near-on 30 years old. It was built in Britain by hand. It had three or four owners before me. It’ll probably have five or six more and go on for another 20 years. That’s impeccable recycling.” – AA Gill’s thoughts on how a Bentley is more eco-friendly than a Mini Cooper S.