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Top Gear · Season 21, Episode 4

“February 23rd, 2014” quotes from Top Gear

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“February 23rd, 2014” · Season 21, Episode 4

In this episode: Jeremy Clarkson (6), James May (4), Richard Hammond (2)

[After Jeremy and Richard ridiculed James for his review of Caterham 160 and Superlight 620R]

Have you quite finished?

Well, not really because there's a lot to go through but, sadly, we must now find out how fast these cars go round our track and that, of course, means handing them over to a man who can actually drive.

[On The Stig]

Some say that he once put Helen Mirren in a dishwasher. And that at the Winter Olympics he was disqualified from the skeleton event for riding down the hill on an actual skeleton. All we know is he's called The Stig!

[While driving the Touring Disco Volante]

[voiceover] So, it doesn't feel like an 8C. And it certainly doesn't sound like one either.

Oh, it's the most… soulful-sounding car I think I've ever heard. It's as though the entire exhaust system is actually made out of Otis Redding.

[On the Touring Disco Volante's high price]

And what's amazing is that, in Singapore, you're not allowed to drive a left-hand drive car on the road. So he's paid £1.5 million for a car he can't drive.

He's completely mad.

He isn't — somebody's just paid, what, £42 million for a Francis Bacon painting. You can't drive that, either. [laughter]

It's not a car.

James, I haven't got time for your pedantry.

[After The Stig gets in a Nissan GT-R to pull tablecloth off a table]

Hold on a minute.

Yes, what?

So you are saying, he is going to drive across our darkened studio, peering through his darkened visor?

Yes.

Is this how this Stig dies? [laughter]

Has he done a book?

No, he hasn't. Right, is he ready?

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