HE's big, he's mean and he's Britain's motoring guru whose biting wit has rattled many an established cage. Comments such as 'You can call a man's baby ugly and he won't mind. But laugh at a man's wheels and you're in serious trouble' have made Jeremy Clarkson a British institution.

Fully updated and published in paperback for the first time, Born To Be Riled contains the best of Clarkson, bringing together the cream of his acerbic Top Gear magazine and Sunday Times articles. Only the most outrageous diatribes, the sharpest observations and the funniest experiences are included in this souped-up, turbo-charged collection from this controversial motoring journalist.

These columns are a record of the thoughts that managed to enrage the whole of Norfolk, the housewives of Surrey, all caravan owners, Nissan Sunny drivers and both the chefs in Birmingham.

Throughout you'll find lashings of opinion -- sometimes Clarkson's arguments are strong and incisive; sometimes they're as thin as an after-dinner mint. But Born To Be Riled remains throughout a joyful, mischievous and cleverly-written record of one man's extraordinary life on wheels (BBC Books £6.99).