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Top Gear · Season 4, Episode 10

“August 1st, 2004” quotes from Top Gear

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“August 1st, 2004” · Season 4, Episode 10

In this episode: Richard Hammond (3), Jeremy Clarkson (2), James May (1)

[During the opening sequence.]

Tonight: James tries to get a sofa in a Volvo estate; The Hamster goes to see the 'Vette; And I go off road in a BMW that can't.

[On the Corvette] The clutch is making my left leg hurt, and the gear change has been taken straight out of a Victorian signal box.

[On the Corvette] This, then, is America's Porsche 911. But here in Europe, we already have a Porsche 911. It's called the Porsche 911.

[On the Corvette] So, can this one follow in the tradition of its government and get up other countries' noses?

[On the Volvo V50] There's a touch of Ikea to all this, but, reassuringly, an expert has put it all together.

[On the BMW X3]

And 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.

PKPatrick Kielty

[On the Delorean] Ok, look. I'm from Northern Ireland, to start with, right. So if you're from Northern Ireland, and someone actually tries to build a sports car factory, in Belfast, in 1980, when Belfast is more like downtown Baghdad, then manages to come over and build something which is aesthetically quite pleasing, and in the process, manages to take Margaret Thatcher for 100 million, and still has time to end up in a hotel room with a suitcase full of snow that Alberto Tomba couldn't ski down, I think he's a bit of a hero.

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