TV show quotes
My ad: "Porsche 928 driver — that's the V8 one"...
Did you actually put, "that's the V8 one"?
Yes, right there, "that's the V8 one".
You actually did, ah.
"Tall, slim hips, likes books with speedboats on the cover, would like to meet someone for friendship, maybe more."
Can I just point out: do you know where he put that ad? He put that in the "Men Seeking Men" column. [laughter]
[During the opening sequence.]
On tonight's show: Richard takes an American muscle car in a road movie... across Lincolnshire; a 4-door saloon goes head-to-head with a Lamborghini; and it's the Top Gear Awards for the best and worst of 2004.
[on the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR FQ400]
This is amazing! A fit young racing driver in a supercar and he cannot pull away from a fat man in a four door saloon!
It has this Sonic the Hedgehog arrangement on the roof to help keep it straight and true with speed, and to help it cleave the air more easily, it has shrunken door mirrors which appear to have been modeled on Shrek's ears.
[on the Toyota Prius]
See the trees smile at me as I waft by. And watch the children run into the road, because they haven't heard me coming.
[on the Toyota Prius engine display]
This, I think, is a particularly good way of distracting you from the child who's run into the road having not heard you coming.
[continuing about the Prius]
Actually I'm being unfair. The Prius is so slow the child could run into the road, get his ball, and hit puberty before you ever actually hit him.
[On the Porsche Boxster]
Meet the new Boxster, same as the old Boxster.
[Later on]
This is a bargain. The best we ever had!
[The Top Gear Awards]
Now, elsewhere in the world, awards are awarded to reward excellence. But here, on the Top Gear awards, we like to award an award that rewards a car that we found particularly unrewarding... in 2... 2004... that's not quite right, is it?
And the Hyundai Accent, which is wretched, whatever engine it has, but we were particularly depressed with three-cylinder diesel version. It really is less fun than drowning!
(After being presented the Golden Cock award) "I am the Golden Cock!"
[on the Mustang GT]
The problem is, where as other muscle cars like the Charger had the good grace to die young, the Mustang lives on.
[During the opening sequence.]
On tonight's show it's all about challenges! Which can get down a mountain the fastest: a rally car or a bobsleigh? Are modern-day showroom cars faster than racing cars from not that long ago? And can a Formula 1 Renault get round our track... in less than a minute?
[on the bobsled run]
Apparently it hits 6 and a half Gs in some of those corners down there. The driver's told me that he's been doing this for six years and he's 3 centimetres shorter. I can't afford to lose 3 centimetres!!
[during the bobsled run]
[shouting] I don't want to die in tights!
[on the French]
They are a bunch of treacherous, lamb-burning, work-shy peasants.
France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for.
[regarding the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti]
Is this your vehicle?
D'ya know what? It isn't, no!
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