[on the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren]
RichardSo much grip! It'll crease the road before it lets go, I'm sure.
A character in Top Gear
Played by Richard Hammond
Top Gear · 1,774 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Top Gear: in 628 of its 1,774 quotes
Most scenes with: Jeremy Clarkson (406), James May (261)
[on the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren]
RichardSo much grip! It'll crease the road before it lets go, I'm sure.
[on the SLR's engine]
RichardIt puts out six hundred and twenty-six brake horsepower, and more torque than in all the rest of the cars in the world added together.
RichardThis is the sort of power that planets are built with! Awesome!
[disappointed by the SLR's interior]
RichardThere's plastic - [raps on dash] - in here. Come on.
RichardAnd then they tell you - proudly! - that there's enough room in the boot for two sets of golf clubs. And that worries me, that's just fat-businessman stuff. It's a marriage between McLaren and Mercedes, the SLR. And it's brilliant! I just wish it was a bit more McLaren and a bit less Mercedes.
[after Jeremy bangs his head on the XPower SV's door frame during a hard maneuver]
RichardI could watch that all day! Who'd like to see it in slow motion?
RichardOh, look! Jeremy's brought a plastic car!
[on Jeremy's advocacy of the Noble]
RichardHe just - he misses the point, he's reduced the whole thing to a mathematical equation! That's not a car, it's a calculator.
Richard[on the CityRover] At 6,900 pounds it is too expensive, particularly as, well it's rubbish.
RichardWhat I like is the way Jeremy's taken on a kind of a bouncer role here. I mean, just leaping around the audience looming at people.
[accompanied by James playing the theme music on a Casio keyboard]
RichardOn tonight's cut-price Top Gear: A small plastic car that's actually quite economical; we take a seasonal Yuletide trip to, eh... Birmingham; oh, and we do have a supercar! Albeit a quite cheap one.
[on the Brabus Smart Roadster V6 Bi-Turbo]
RichardIt's like a bottle of sports car concentrate.
[nomination for the Dullest Formula 1 Driver of the Year award]
RichardKimi Räikkönen. He's 24 years old, he's paid millions of pounds a year, and he chooses to live... in Chigwell.
[nominations for Surprise of the Year]
RichardAnd the Vauxhall Signum. In particular, we were surprised that anyone could be catatonically stupid enough to make a people carrier that can actually carry fewer people than the saloon on which it's based.
RichardAnd as for the Alfa 147 GTA, well, that's not dead, but it's as mad as a badger.
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