[During the opening sequence.]
On tonight's show: James celebrates 50 years of guitar music... in a Mercedes; a Broken Arrow star in our Reasonably-Priced Car; and I tackle the world's most fearsome race track... in a diesel.
S5 E5November 21st, 2004
Absolutely everybody here was faster than me. [talking about the Nürburgring]
SSSabine Schmitz
Yes, that's true.
Do you think I'm going to be able to get 'round in ten minutes?
SSabine
[laughing] No.
Don't sugar coat it like that, tell me straight.
SSabine
You're not one hundred percent talent-free, but... eighty percent?
Eighty percent talent free... right.
[to a biker on the Nürburgring] Get a car and some proper clothes for God's sake!
[pushing his beer away] Get thee behind me, juice of Johann Vegas.
SSabine
[to Jeremy after seeing his fastest lap] I do that lap time in a van.
S5 E6December 5th, 2004
[During the opening sequence.]
On tonight's show: How fast can a blind man get round our track? How much Porsche can you get for 1500 pounds? And Britain's most successful recording artist ever is in our Reasonably-Priced Car.
[During the £1500 Porsche challenge];
This was a hugely advanced car when it first came out: polyurethane bumpers; first car ever to have passive rear wheel steering... I've always, always... oh my God, I've got steam.
Is Jeremy breaking down?
Uh, guys, I've got a lot of steam coming out of the bonnet.
Did he say I've got some speed, or I've got some steam?
[voice over] No, it was definitely steam and it was erupting after just two miles.
[Jeremy discovers a leak in his Porsche's cooling system and "fills" it with about 10L of water before giving up, with it gushing from the radiator almost as quickly]
Jeremy and Richard have gone off inside to buy an egg, in the hope that we can use that old trick of mixing the egg white into the coolant system and that will find and block...
This, [He shows a chocolate Creme Egg] …this is Hammond's contribution. He's bought himself a chocolate egg.
[on his £1500 Porsche] For the first time today I have no warning light on the dashboard - all is well. Apart from, you know, the rear windscreen wiper and the electric window and the electric door mirrors and the stereo, and the clock, and the air conditioning, and the speedometer and the milometer, and the piston ring that's eating the engine, and the big smoke coming out of the back, everything's fine.
[During the £1500 Porsche challenge]
What is the next challenge?
You've got to spend the change from your £1500 budget...
Yeah..?
And with it, you've got to improve your car as much as possible and have it judged by an independent adjudicator who is from the Porsche owner's club.
Yeah, so you can spend all of the money from your £1500 that you didn't spend on your car... on your car.
How much did you spend?
I spent £750 on my car, so I've got £750 to spend on improving it.
I spent £900 on my car which gives me £600 to spend in improving it.
How much did you spend?
[mumbling] 1500
Sorry?
1500
So you've got nothing to spend on improving it.
[Jeremy and Richard grumble about James' success in producing a number eleven skidmark off the line with his Porsche]
I've never seen him do anything that lairy!
That is... thirty-one feet.
Not bad.
Don't tell him that. Yeah, you did about four inches, mate. Well done.
Give up!
Yeah, that's four inches!
That's quite good!
Yeah, no, that was me the other day in a Bentley.
[After Jeremy does an "Asian number eleven" burnout - a rather sloppy 720-degree doughnut, as his car lacks the power to spin up the wheels in a straight line] You can't have that!
Look, if you were from a region of China just near Tibet northeast you'd look and you go [affects terrible "Chinese" accent] "Ah, someone write ereven!"
[At the end of the challenge]
So, James, how much did you sell your Nine Forty Four for?
£1,400!
[the presenters have been told to write personal ads mentioning their cars, with points awarded for each reply]
"41-year-old man with sensitive hair" [May is interrupted at this point by Clarkson and the audience's reaction but resumes] "drives Porsche 944 luxe, seeks brewery heiress or similar, must have liberal attitude to motorcycle components in the bath."
"Porsche 924 owner"... got it in first... "good looking, mild mannered, snappy dresser, 5'11".."
Whaat?! "Five foot eleven"?
"Mild mannered"?
It's a Lonely Hearts ad! If I put "angry short bloke," I won't get any replies!
So how many replies did you get?
None...
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