Nearly 20 years ago, Tesla sued the BBC over then-presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the Tesla Roadster. That case didn’t go Tesla’s way, and Clarkson says CEO Elon Musk “never really got over it.” Now, the former “Top Gear” presenter finds Musk’s tarnished public image and resentment for the automaker “kinda hilarious.”

Jeremy Clarkson says he’s been waiting for Elon Musk’s ‘body to float past. And now it has.’

If you’ve watched any Top Gear (or Amazon’s “The Grand Tour,” for that matter), you know that Jeremy Clarkson is opinionated. Clarkson has heated takes on bicycles, bus lanes, average speed cameras, motorcycles, and, of course, electric cars. That much was evident when Top Gear reviewed the Tesla Roadster back in 2008.

Although he commended the two-door EV sports car for its quickness, Clarkson reported that one of the two Roadsters broke down during testing. That review resulted in Tesla suing the BBC. “He lost the case, and the appeal, and he’s never really got over it,” he wrote in the Sunday Times. “He still claims I was biased and that we pretended his car had broken down when it hadn’t. Even though it had.”

Clarkson says he should have counter-sued, but instead chose to wait for Musk to author his own undoing. “I just waited on the river bank for his body to float past. And now it has,” the former BBC presenter added in the article, referring to Musk’s recent image problems and the destructive protests targeting Tesla EVs.

According to Politico, Jeremy Clarkson is savoring his so-called “victory” that much more due to the vandals themselves. “What makes it so juicy is that he’s being pecked to death by the very people who put him on the pedestal in the first place. The eco hippies. The net-zero disciples of Ed Miliband and Al Gore. They loved his idea of electrical cars running on nothing but wind and sunshine.”

Hippy commentary aside, Jeremy Clarkson goes on to scold left-leaning Tesla protesters for the change of heart. “He was a hero to them, and I was hated for having been so rude about his early foray into the car market,” Clarkson wrote. “How do you feel now as you sit in your Tesla while an army of like-minded souls kick its door mirrors off?”

Mind you, Clarkson doesn’t celebrate the vandalism. He maintains that targeting Tesla for its founder and CEO’s actions is “unfair” to the automaker and its employees. But that didn’t stop him from dropping a scathing reminder for Tesla owners. “I’d love to remind all you Tesla drivers that I warned you 17 years ago that no good would come of your buying choice,” he wrote in the Sunday Times article. “But you didn’t listen. You chose to believe Mr Musk.” Ouch.