Jeremy Clarkson sells new Clarkson's Farm Lamborghini tractor for more than £70,000

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Jeremy Clarkson has sold his new Clarkson's Farm Lamborghini tractor for more than £70,000 after buying it for £85,000, according to auction house Cheffins.
The green tractor was put up for sale under the agricultural tractors section in the Machinery and Vintage Auctions catalog for the auction house. There were 62 bids for the farming machine before it was sold to the highest bidder for £70,500 on Monday.
Clarkson was pictured carrying papers at the auction in Sutton, near Ely, in Cambridgeshire. He was supported by his Clarkson's Farm co-star Cooper.
Clarkson showed off his tractor on Clarkson's Farm series four after buying it second hand in scenes filmed in 2024. He invested in the farming machinery before buying his pub, The Farmer's Dog, which opened over the last August Bank Holiday weekend.
On Clarkson's Farm series four, the presenter revealed that he had bought the Lamborghini tractor because the "silver one kept breaking down". But the new one broke down too, despite being "bigger" and "more powerful" as seen in a dramatic sequence on the Prime Video series.
Viewers saw the new tractor for the first time in episode four — titled Cottaging — where the presenter was delighted to share his purchase with Diddly Squat Farm Manager Kaleb Cooper. He told him: "Aaahh. Check it out. It's a Lamborghini again!"
Any Clarkson's Farm fan knows how much car-mad Clarkson loves his Lamborghini tractors.
When Cooper wasn't convinced by the purchase, the TV personality said he was going to "hit him with some numbers". The Lamborghini tractor had 7.8 litres and 340 horsepower. Clarkson joked he was so high up in the tractor he could "eyeball" people working in the International Space Station.
He followed it up with: "All those tractors I looked at the other day — those medium sized tractors, they were all around 120/180 [thousand pounds] kinda on the farm. 85! £85,000... Yorkshire haggling."
Eventually Clarkson won Cooper over and the farm manager declared it was a "bargain". After climbing inside the tractor, Cooper claimed that the GPS in the tractor was "worth £10,000 on its own".
Initially the ex-Top Gear star encountered some problems with the tractor because the controls were "more complicated" than his Lamborghini machine.
Later, the tractor breaks down leading to a difficult conversation between Clarkson and his financial advisor Charlie Ireland. Ireland told him he had paid "far too much" for the machinery.
"What?!" Clarkson exclaimed. "Come on, it looks fantastic." He made the further plea in front of the cameras: "Please allow me to have the tractor I like, please."
Ireland shrugged his shoulders, saying he had no choice as Clarkson had already bought the tractor without speaking to him. The tractor then was out of action until the mechanic could fix it.
Watch Clarkson's Farm series 4 trailer
It's no secret that Clarkson has always loved Lamborghini tractors.
He explained in The Times in 2020: "I could have bought a Fendt. Everyone says they're the best. Or I could have bought a Fastrac, because I'm friends with the JCB family. But obviously I wanted a Lamborghini. So that's what I've got. An R8 270 DCR, to be precise."
He added: "Lamborghini was a tractor-maker long before it made cars, but the business was sold — along with the rights to the name — in 1973. Today they're made in Germany but they still look Lambo-mad."
Yahoo UK has reached out to Jeremy Clarkson's representatives and auction house Cheffins for further comment.
The final episodes of Clarkson's Farm series four are available to stream on Prime Video now.