[During the opening sequence.]
Tonight: the chav-tastic new Ford Focus. The Transport Minister is in our Reasonably-Priced Car. And Richard Hammond and I have a fight.
“November 27th, 2005” · Season 7, Episode 3
In this episode: Jeremy Clarkson (11), Richard Hammond (7), James May (4), Stephen Ladyman (1)
[on the Stig]
Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground... all we know is, he's called the Stig.
I have an announcement to make. Top Gear, this... pokey motor show on BBC2, this week won--I've got it here--in New York, an Emmy! We've won an Emmy! Check it out!"
Wow! Can I touch it?
What this is for, okay, is for the best non-scripted entertainment show that wasn't made in America. That's us!
Why didn't you go and pick up the award from the ceremony?
Well, because I was writing the script for this week's show.
Thing is though, when the Office, you remember that sitcom series?... won some Golden... Globes recently, the whole of the BBC ground to a halt while everyone said congratulations and... they were showered with, like, gifts, and gold and diamonds...
It's true, the director general of the BBC spent a whole week rubbing warm pig fat into the back of Ricky Gervais.
So, how many chocolate covered lap dancers do you think were sent to us?
[to the audience] How many do you reckon? Not a damn thing!
Nothing!
And if you think that's outrageous, then please write to us, as of Monday, to Top Gear, Channel 4 television...
Look. A petrol station, the natural home territory of the Ford GT. And there it is, at the watering hole, drinking its fill. For the forty-seventh time today.
[Richard and James observe as Jeremy yet again stops to refuel his notoriously thirsty car at a service station in southern France]
How can he need more?
Have you noticed how his right bicep is now slightly bigger than his left one?
[Richard laughs]
...have you also noticed that when he fills his car up, he stands like a teapot?
[Richard laughs harder and the camera reveals this to be true - Jeremy has his unoccupied hand on his hip, and his legs crossed]
[Jeremy wanders over]
James, I've run out of money.
Have you... what an interesting predicament.
[quietly] Please can I borrow some money.
I'm not-- we're not bailing you out!
You want me to pay for your petrol?
Yes!
Right, the nation is observing...
[wandering off] I haven't got any money...
...while I fund your ridiculous petrol habit.
[on multiple occasions] I have not had my teeth whitened!
[driving his Zonda in Paris] Don't scratch it!
[driving his Zonda in Paris, responding to horns blowing behind him] I know it's a supercar! It doesn't have vertical take-off!
[on Jeremy's Ford GT and its literally useless luggage compartment] The boot is there... purely to accommodate the boot lid!
Interestingly I think the Zonda is the sort of car for people who worry too much about their teeth.
[driving his Ferrari - surprisingly quickly - in southern France]
Here comes Captain Slow!
No American who designed that chassis [pointing to his Ford GT] is even half-aware that a road like this exists. If you brought an American here he would die of shock!
And the Ford? Well, it's the prettiest, it's the fastest, and it has the best fuel economy! Oh, no, wait, that's not right, is it?
You can't rationalise cars like this. They're not something you buy with your head, you buy them with your heart, because you love them, and who could explain love? [...] That's ok, that we can't agree, because if you remember, we didn't come all the way through France to find the best supercar. We came here for that.
This is the Millau Bridge. At a thousand feet, it's the tallest bridge in the world. It's so tall you could put Canary Wharf underneath the roadway. It's clever too, because it rises and falls by as much as ten feet, depending on the temperature and the season. It is a magnificent achievement.
So what does it have to do with our big, heavy, thirsty, expensive cars?
That is a supercar in the same way that that is a superbridge. They could've built it lower down with some RSJs and some planks of wood, but they didn't. They built something amazing, something astonishing, something wonderful, they went berserk.
This bridge, then, like the cars that brought us here, is an example of humans doing what humans do: pushing boundaries, pushing ourselves, taking something that can't be done – and then doing it.
[reading the French President's remarks on the Millau Bridge]
"A modern France, an enterprising, successful France, a France which invests in the future..." - He forgot to mention the fact, that the architect was British!
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