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Top Gear · Season 3, Episode 3

Jeremy in “November 9th, 2003”

Jeremy ClarksonJeremy Clarkson

[on the Bentley Continental GT]

There's no way the aristocracy is going to buy this car. I mean, these days they have to burn their children just to stay warm, and all their furniture's held together by the moths that ate it.

[...]

It's like doing 5000 miles an hour in Douglas Bader's sponge bag.

[criticising the armrests]

They are completely pointless. Speaking of which: this button here allows you to adjust the hardness of the suspension, like so. Why do you need that? Why would you want to make your Bentley more uncomfortable? It really is as useful as a snooze button on a smoke alarm.

[...]

The old four-door Arnage is a symphony of pomp and circumstance, hope and glory - absolute power corrupting absolutely. Oh, it isn't very good, but there's such a sense of occasion when you drive it. This is the other way round: brilliant, sensationally fast, handles beautifully, and it'll almost certainly be reliable. But it leaves you feeling... just a little bit cold.

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