Quentin Willson, who has died aged 68 after suffering from lung cancer, was a secondhand car dealer in business with his twin brother Ashley when he was chosen in 1991 to join the presenting team on BBC television’s motoring magazine show Top Gear as the used-car expert.
He was informative and intelligent, with a wry delivery, sardonic smile and scathing comments. While praising the perennially popular MGB sports car for both its road-holding and price-holding abilities, he described Jaguars as “the domain of spivs, crooks and bookmakers” in earlier times.
