James May quotes from Top Gear

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Here comes Captain Slow!

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[on a Mercedes styled to look like a fish] It's been out on an industrial state in Surrey, where's it's done ten miles an hour!

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[to a pedestrian] Eh? No it's not a kit car, it's a Lamborghini... Philistine!

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The Italians invented electricity, as we all know.

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No, I just had to stop and fill it up with electricity.

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Right, the battery is discharging, the oil temperature is very high, the oil pressure is very low, the engine temperature is off the end of the scale, I'm running out of petrol... but the clock is correct!

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Now all that was left was to psyche out [Darth Vader].

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It does still look a bit like the inside of Jacques Cousteau's wetsuit in here.

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Permission to say "Oh, cock" on BBC Two.

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YOU UNBEARABLE MAN, I CAN'T STAND IT!!! [after arriving at the destination for the Veyron vs. Plane race to find Jeremy had already arrived about a minute earlier]

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[about the Honda Civic's poor sound insulation] I mean, I like an engine note as much as the next person, but I'd like it to be a fizzy V6 hand-crafted in Italy. This... [revving the engine] that's a rather dreary 4-pot from rainy Swindon.

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There's a boat there called the "Hey Presto"! Hang on, there's a boat right here called "Puffin" - Hello Puffin! [crashes heavily into "Puffin"]

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You utter pirate!

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[Struggling onto the Motorway in his Triumph Herald] And we're in Top Gear... 35mph..!

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Avast, land lubbers!