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10: Bentley Arnage (Made in Crewe by a subsidiary of Volkswagen)

"The best thing about this car — the one thing that oozes from every weld and every handmade stitch and overwhelms all the faults — is the unparalleled sense of occasion it affords. When you climb aboard it’s a bit like climbing into your dinner jacket. It’s uncomfortable and stupid, but there’s a sense that you’re about to do something very special." Read Clarkson's full review

9: Land Rover Discovery (Made in Solihull by a subsidiary of Ford)

"It would be easy to sign off by saying the Disco is better than one of the best cars in the world. But I'm afraid we’re far from the end of the story. You see, the Range Rover is actually a five-seater executive car that happens to have four-wheel drive." Read Clarkson's full review

8: Rolls-Royce Phantom (Made in Goodwood by a subsidiary of BMW)

"Part of the reason it looks so right is that the designers worked out that the height of a car should always be twice the height of its wheels. And this led to a problem. Because the Rolls is damn nearly as tall as me, the wheels had to be enormous. And that, in turn, meant the Michelin man had to get out of Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant for 10 minutes and design a tyre that could double up as one of Saturn’s rings." Read Clarkson's full review

7: Morgan Plus 8 (Made in Malvern by a British company. Hooray! They now use BMW and Ford engines, but the Plus 8 had a British-made Rover V8)

"Mathematicians say that time travel will never be possible, or people from the future would be here already, clogging up Ladbrokes and generally making a nuisance of themselves on the stock exchange. However, the argument is wrong. As daft as it might seem, a small engineering company in Malvern Link, Worcestershire, has quietly invented a time machine. It’s called a Morgan Plus 8 and last week it whisked me back to 1933." Read Clarkson's full review

6: Bentley Continental GTC (As above)

"Kick back and cruise. Select the precise sort of sound you want from the hi-fi, snuggle into the infinitely adjustable seat . . . and relax. It is a very, very nice way of covering miles. Like falling asleep in the bath and waking up somewhere else." Read Clarkson's full review

5: Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster (Made - except for the German engine - in Gaydon, Warks. Now owned by an international consortium of investors lead by British company Prodrive)

"My wife’s V8, which was one of the first ever made, has not been bad at all. The boot filled with water on one trip to London, which was odd since it wasn’t raining, the petrol filler cap fell apart once, the handbrake gets stuck on from time to time and the tyre pressure sensors have a mind of their own. Tiny things, in other words, and worrying about any of them in a pretty car like the Vantage is like climbing into bed with a supermodel and noticing she has slightly unruly pubes." Read Clarkson's full review

4: Caterham Seven Roadsport SV (British through and through, except for the engine!)

"Bloody Hell Fire and Holy Mother of Christ: apart from being bigger, it was a whole lot more powerful to boot. At first you’ll wonder where the power has gone. But that’s because you’ll be changing up when the noise and the vibrations become intolerable. But don’t. In fact you change up when blood is spurting out of your ears and your right foot has been shaken clean off your ankle." Read Clarkson's full review

3: Mini Cooper S (Made in Oxford by a subsidiary of BMW)

"Not long ago BMW fitted a pin-prick red bulb on the underside of the rear-view mirror that bathed the interior of the car with the soft red glow of a submarine at Defcon 3. It was without a doubt the greatest single advance in automotive technology since Cadillac introduced the starter motor. But the new Mini goes further because you can choose what colour light you’d like to bathe in. And better still there’s a slider knob that changes the hue on an infinite scale, from red through scarlet and then purple until it ends up vodka bar blue." Read Clarkson's full review

2: Ariel Atom (Made in Somerset by a British company. Powered by a choice of Honda or GM engines)

"I think the best thing about this car, though, is the way it looks. It’s as cool as a Philippe Starck juicer, as tempting as any of the brushed aluminium toys you find in an airport gadget shop. But unlike rechargeable underwater currency converters, I doubt you’d ever be bored with what it can do." Read Clarkson's full review

1: Aston Martin DB9 (As above)

"Once, I was given the controls of a world war two P51 fighter. That thing danced and jinked like no machine I’d ever been in, and all the time there was a glorious roar from the Merlin engine. Well, that’s what the DB9 feels like. Like a fighter. Like everything mankind knows about excitement and machinery and technology has finally come together in an orgasm of absolute, thrilling and total harmony." Read Clarkson's full review

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