Top Gear Quotes

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  Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Love, Motor Racing, Car

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• Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Jobs, Mirrors, Effort

  "Clarkson joke sparks complaints", news.bbc.co.uk. November 4, 2008.

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• Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Party, Ebola, People

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• I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  People, Poor, Lanes

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• Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Editing, Car, Racing

  "Top Gear". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Insomnia, Suffering, Looks

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• It couldn't pull a greased
  stick out of a pig's bottom

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Pigs, Sticks, Cool Cars

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• Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York, and that he has a full size tattoo of his face, on his face. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Tattoo, Size, Faces

  "Top Gear", July 13, 2008.

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• The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sex, Wagons, Should

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• In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Complaining, Factories

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• Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Mexican, Lazy

  "Mexican anger over BBC 'feckless, lazy' claims" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.

  Steve Sabol

  Holy Grail, One Piece, Quarterback

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.

  Richard Hammond

  Names, Car, Wish

  "Top Gear: Botswana Special". Comedy, Talk-Show, November 04, 2007.

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• [on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Morning, Mean, Thinking

  "Top Gear (Episode #4.10)". TV Series, August 1, 2004.

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• I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said: 'Can we borrow yours?' and he said, 'Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.'

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Daughter, Yeah, Said

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• A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Faster, Cool Cars, Witchcraft

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• The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Air, Dashboards, Sitting

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• Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Syphilis, Cool Cars

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• Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Running, Oil, Islands

  "Top Gear", October 31, 2004.

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• Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cool Cars, Comfortable

  "Top Gear: Series 8". TV Series, May 7, 2006.

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• Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Ferrari, Tonight

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• No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

  Mark Donohue

  Power, Car, Not Good Enough

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• I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ferrari, Versions

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• Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Clouds, Understanding, Taste

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• This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying “Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, People, Syphilis

  "Top Gear: Series 8". TV Series, May 7, 2006.

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