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Season 13  "The Perfect Car for a 17 Year-old"  13x2

Aired 15 years ago - Jun 28, 2009

Jeremy, James and Richard attempt to find the perfect car for a 17 year-old. Normal service resumes in Abu Dhabi with Richard, a Lamborghini Murcielago SV and a race between a Bugatti Veyron and a McLaren F1. Stephen Fry is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.

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If you're a 17-year-old boy and you need car insurance, slice your penis off.
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'The phoning went on, until eventually we had a list of cars that could be bought and insured
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Not much in it and nothing you I mean, look at that
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Can you imagine a 17-year-old in a Suzuki Wagon R+? Thanks(!) 1L.
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'So, we got back on the phones pretending to be Dad.'
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'Finally, we were in business.'
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'and I was the first to arrive.'
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It's a Golf and that's really all there is to say about it.
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for very occasional use, such as today, when I've just come to see my mates.
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Is it an S Coupe?
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It's a coupe! It's magnificent. 85bhp,
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'a geography teacher arrived.'
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The perfect car for any 17-year-old. Why?! Why? Y-yes!
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They did do a turbo... What is that?! A Hyundai S Coupe
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There's another very important issue that we must address.
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Look at the amount of metal between him and the tree he will inevitably hit.
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Thank you.
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Ha! You've had it!
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You? £500. You?
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'Two days later, our wheels were ready and I'd gone for the thing girls love most -
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but it's close enough. And I've customised it to fit perfectly.
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Well, when I say water bed, what I mean is... Well, it's a lilo.
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And then, to finish it all off, some simple, hand-painted turbo motifs.
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on exactly what a 17-year-old wants -
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BAROQUE MUSIC PLAYS
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'While he went for a wee, Richard and I decided to improve his car
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What have we got?
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We need to glue the whole damn thing, literally every button.
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That is... This will brighten his day.
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Ooh, yeah.
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and the answer to that is yes.
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'at the bottom of a very slippery field.'
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Maybe we'll have converted him? THEY LAUGH
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Ah! This'll answer the question.
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"all their camping equipment and stuff into their car
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That has to be medical. It must be.
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So, that's a piece of cake. Ah!
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Nobody's ever said that before. 'James struggled to get everything in his Golf,
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I'm outta here.
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'Hammond completely forgot about his new body kit.'
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'As Hammond and I floundered on the green ice,
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James has got the right idea. It's speed, weirdly.
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Yes.
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Here we go!
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No.
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Oh, please!
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We will pick that up later on. Can I just point out that before we do move on,
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Which they will if it's got a body kit on.
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And then one day, you'll be in the showers and a big, strange man...
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LAUGHTER
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What do you do on a driving test if you don't pass it? You...
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A traffic light went red as I came up to it and the examiner said, "Proceed as you normally would,"
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We were going along and all of a sudden, he hit the dashboard
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No, I was being correct. He was anticipating an emergency stop, not an argument, you fool! Was he?
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at the other end of the scale from our failure, you turned up with some scissors in your pocket,
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That's really what it was. When he said, the man,
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what I heard was, "Congratulations,- Mr Clarkson, you are the best driver I've ever seen in my life."
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surrounded by sheep that were no longer alive and bits of what used to be my mum's Audi.
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which is important and we got distracted
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To prop up the car industry, the Government is encouraging you to scrap old cars and buy new ones.
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to help Kim Jong-il buy nuclear weapons.
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the other is a totalitarian regime,- allegedly making weapons of mass destruction.
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Why would the South Koreans nuke Hammersmith?
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This is an important point. It is more ecological - and this is a fact,
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than it is to scrap it, throw it away and build a new one. True fact.
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and not Kim Jong-il. LAUGHTER
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Everyone had said it's superbike fast and I thought, "Oh, come on, don't be ridic...argh!"
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They're saying it's got more than 500 horsepower
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That's just staggering. A Bugatti Veyron, to put that in perspective,- is 521bhp per tonne,
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It's £100,000, but I don't believe cars can get better than that.
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You strap wardrobes, chests of drawers on there and... They've thought about it. See?
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That makes the worst noise... What?! It makes the best noise!
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It's like driving along - what's that opera singer called - Katherine...er...Jenkins!
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Lady Chatterley, goes in the barn with the gardener, in the hay,
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That's my point, it's a brilliant noise. The supercharger whine is a mechanical driving sound.
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so the cooler will be mine in 19 days, right -
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..the best noise that had ever come- out of a car came out of the stereo- in my 17-year-old Golf
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Actually, while we're on the subject of this,
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and the Daily Star, in an editorial, says that we've upset the Scouts and the Catholic Church
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Germans, blind people, anti-hunt protesters and smokers.
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How dare they? How dare they suggest that we would be rude to smokers?!!
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and I thought, "Why just do it at the track?"
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HOOFBEATS
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But the truth is, the place is shot- through with a love of speed...
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'the brand-new Lamborghini Murcielago.'
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Between me and it is a four-mile, arrow-straight stretch of highway.
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TYRES SQUEAL
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150.
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Whoa!
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or, to put it in plain English... the fastest Lamborghini ever made.
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'because a brand-new replacement is coming next year.
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'because from every angle, this last hurrah looks absolutely evil.'
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If a Toyota Prius came up behind and saw that, it would wet its pants.
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'So, LP670-4 SV.'
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The LP stands for...something.
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and also, quite a lot.
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It's got a lighter exhaust system, more of it's made of carbon fibre
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0-60, 3.2 seconds.
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Because that noise...
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and it too will die along with this car.
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'And I'm not the only one who thinks this car has a human soul.'
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Here's Mercedes talking about the exhaust on the SL Black.
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"a distinctive 12-cylinder sound from the two trapezoidal tailpipes."
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"through the trumpeting of mighty elephants, to the roar of a raging lion."
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You just get the sense that before this car dies, they actually wanted- to make it come to life.
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has transformed it into a completely different car.
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Don't get me wrong, it's still a big, scary car,
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Yeah, this'd be a lot easier if the desert would stay still.
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It is!
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'..but with the more rarefied and expensive hypercars.'
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That's an SLR 722 - like an SLR, only more.
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'let's see if the 722 can keep its royal status
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TYRES SQUEAL
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Try that on, fella.
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Man, this is close!
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Whoa! Braking up to the red light quite hard.
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I was there, alongside hypercar royalty. Compared to that,
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Quite a swan song.
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'the Murcielago has become one of the all-time supercar greats.'
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There's some evidence on these seats that you had a crisis.
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Thing is though, you've always said- that your favourite supercar is the Zonda F, OK?
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Come on!
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LAUGHTER
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top of our leader board.
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What? BOOING
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I have to work with that, week in week out.
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with German piano wire...
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All we know is that's three things he has in common with Margaret Beckett.
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Right, coming up to the first corner and he's coming in very hot.
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Stig seems to have it all under control at the moment though.
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Hammerhead. This is where understeer should rear its head.
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And the third thing, obviously,
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so that's probably why he's lifted off through the tyres.
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this car really is Widow Twankey with a wing.
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It did it in...
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It's moved up.
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It doesn't lie, the F's faster.
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He's the voice of the Harry Potter audiotapes, Blackadder,
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the only thing we can be sure he hasn't done,
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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What you're really saying is
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Yeah, gasp. Thank you.
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LAUGHTER No, you're pulling that face,
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For example, I've just had Tim Robbins in my ear
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I have no idea. You would know, you'd remember.
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without the sound of you wafting out of the children's bedrooms.
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It staggers me, you've managed to lose all this weight
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Nobody loses weight in America.
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and by about a month or twoafterwards I was at my full 21 stone.
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I did. I actually went to the General Motors Headquarters
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Yeah. And he said, "We're still the biggest automobile company in the world."
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And when he went to college to do automotive design
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If he'd tried that in Australia! Oh, yes!
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Yeah.
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in a time that was impossible if you hadn't driven in bus lanes.
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It is illegal for me to drive in bus lanes.
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You read that thing, it says from seven till something.
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And it says, "Buses and good vehicles only".
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It's like ones that say, "access only".
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Yes, it's become rather a large number.
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of a specific type of mobile telephone.
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where you can play it as a reco... Have you got that?
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This one might not be quite so upyour strata but it's called Grindr.
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No-one's going to now. Who made that noise?
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When you load it...
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and it tells you how close they are.- It says he's 20 yards away.
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Let's have a look.
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Just making sure mine isn't on. LAUGHTER
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LAUGHTER
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Some of them show rude parts which you won't want to see.
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It's a car show, I knew there was something.
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I drove in two reasonably-priced cars because the first one,
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and we obviously thought that was not safe to have.
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It's the second-to-last corner. Yes! Oh, that's a high speed.
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OK, there's a third attempt.
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Every time, I said to myself, "Smoothly."
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Who here would like to see Stephen's real lap?
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It might not be fast but let's make it smooth, Stephen, smooth.
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With his... That's fantastic!
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because that's a bit of understeer.
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except around my face! Ah!
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Here we go.
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That is bang-on, cutting the corner nicely.
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That was smooth.
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Who else do you think you beat?
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The problem is you were beautifully smooth
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Oh, no!APPLAUSE
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I could give you a hot, it was a hot day and, of course,
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Do you know what? I could be guaranteed that Alan doesn't watch Top Gear.
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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Earlier on we bought, insured and customised three cars
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when I sort-of ripped the body kit off the back on my Hyundai.
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Anyway, coming up now is the most realistic challenge ever attempted on British television.
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three hours after we'd said we'd be in, without waking them up.
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OWL HOOTS
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Oh, God. Ugh!
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WHISPERS: Yeah, this is a professional job.
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so that it hides the back and my mother won't see what I've done.
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50.4 decibels, that's like custard rustling, absolutely soundless.
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Come on. Come on!
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Come on, you stupid lump of Swedish lead.
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THEY LAUGH
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I might get in trouble.
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and they buried it in the summer house. Job done!
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Oh, no, no, no!
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and there's quite a lot of damage there.
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My Mum and Dad, they didn't wake up.
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The interesting thing is what James
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JEREMY CLEARS HIS THROAT What?
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LOUD TECHNO MUSIC For God's sake! No!
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God above!
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Can you smell smoke on my fingers? THEY LAUGH
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Oddly though, the man in the white coat was nowhere to be seen.
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Sunrise yellow.
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This man's destroying your Volvo. Are you going to sort him out?
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Mind the body kit!
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Ha-ha, "As you are 17, it is certain that at some point in the near future,
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"This is to find out how easy they are to repair."
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..and break out the hammers.
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Ah! Argh!
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watch that disappear thanks to the magic of polish.
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and need to straighten a dent, here's what you do.
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'Jeremy, meanwhile, was cheating.'
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You were 17? RS Turbo, straight through a fence.
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So, do you think you could use some fireman equipment to make that like new?
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it's too middle class.
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'..we had made no difference whatsoever.'
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'Then another challenge arrived.'
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"round the Hammerhead, do a handbrake turn
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"and you'll have five seconds added to your time for every object you don't hit."
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'that teenagers like to crash into.
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'that everyone, except a 17-year-old, can see isn't wide enough.
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than a good handbrake turn. God, yeah, fact.
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I have no feathers... But I can do this!
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'Armed with this new information about women,
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That's nice. Yeah.
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That's him being rubbish.
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'With James cleared off the track, I lined up for the off.'
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Missed!
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My God! That's substantial. Yee-ha!
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That's good. Wheelie bins.
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There's nothing I can do about the washer bottle,
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Yes!
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LOUD TECHNO MUSIC Oh, for God's sake.
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'why he'd bothered with a helmet.'
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'But then as he approached the girls, all became clear.'
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I might as well have cut my penis off for all the good that did.
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WHISTLING Perfect.
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'So now it was all down to me.'
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35 seconds before he moved more than a yard.
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You all right?
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That's my line!
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Luckily, children, I got better.
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Anyway...
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LAUGHTER Is that a minus?!
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and it's still here! Look! LAUGHTER
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When do you ever see the NHS go, "Oh, that's a nasty head wound,
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I got 103.
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Yes. Right. LAUGHTER
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Our teenage judges said they were prepared to award up to 5 points for a really good one.
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LAUGHTER What happened was...
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Jeremy Clarkson, it is now between you and me. Yes, it is.
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..nothing!
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There's nothing else going for you.- No, come on!
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This is also consumer advice... The door handle's come off!
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Yes!
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Anyway, I got nought? Yes.
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They did, didn't they? They did. What did they give you?
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Fairly beaten.
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that the best, THE BEST car for a 17-year-old is a beige Volvo estate with a broken back window.
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of the consumer advice for this week.
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and, in fact, I'm still there because now it's time for the moment
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the first-ever showdown between the- two fastest road cars of all time.
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The meeting point for the most amazing collection of numbers.
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and a top speed of 252 miles an hour.
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the McLaren F1.
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It was the fastest with a top speed- of 240 miles an hour.
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The engine bay was lined with gold
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from the 6.1-litre BMW engine.
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the McLaren and the Veyron are actually poles apart.
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the McLaren gets...nothing.
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It's gizmo cupboard is completely bare.
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And that shines through in the way they feel.
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that well-oiled, mechanical, metallic feel.
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HE LAUGHS
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and get in to the Bugatti Veyron.

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'The phoning went on, until eventually we had a list of cars that could be bought and insured
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Not much in it and nothing you I mean, look at that
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Can you imagine a 17-year-old in a Suzuki Wagon R+? Thanks(!) 1L.
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'So, we got back on the phones pretending to be Dad.'
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'Finally, we were in business.'
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'and I was the first to arrive.'
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It's a Golf and that's really all there is to say about it.
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for very occasional use, such as today, when I've just come to see my mates.
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Is it an S Coupe?
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It's a coupe! It's magnificent. 85bhp,
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'a geography teacher arrived.'
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The perfect car for any 17-year-old. Why?! Why? Y-yes!
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They did do a turbo... What is that?! A Hyundai S Coupe
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There's another very important issue that we must address.
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Look at the amount of metal between him and the tree he will inevitably hit.
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Thank you.
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Ha! You've had it!
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You? £500. You?
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'Two days later, our wheels were ready and I'd gone for the thing girls love most -
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but it's close enough. And I've customised it to fit perfectly.
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Well, when I say water bed, what I mean is... Well, it's a lilo.
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And then, to finish it all off, some simple, hand-painted turbo motifs.
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on exactly what a 17-year-old wants -
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BAROQUE MUSIC PLAYS
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'While he went for a wee, Richard and I decided to improve his car
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What have we got?
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We need to glue the whole damn thing, literally every button.
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That is... This will brighten his day.
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Ooh, yeah.
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and the answer to that is yes.
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'at the bottom of a very slippery field.'
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Maybe we'll have converted him? THEY LAUGH
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Ah! This'll answer the question.
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"all their camping equipment and stuff into their car
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That has to be medical. It must be.
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So, that's a piece of cake. Ah!
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Nobody's ever said that before. 'James struggled to get everything in his Golf,
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I'm outta here.
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'Hammond completely forgot about his new body kit.'
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'As Hammond and I floundered on the green ice,
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James has got the right idea. It's speed, weirdly.
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Yes.
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Here we go!
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No.
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Oh, please!
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We will pick that up later on. Can I just point out that before we do move on,
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Which they will if it's got a body kit on.
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And then one day, you'll be in the showers and a big, strange man...
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LAUGHTER
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What do you do on a driving test if you don't pass it? You...
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A traffic light went red as I came up to it and the examiner said, "Proceed as you normally would,"
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We were going along and all of a sudden, he hit the dashboard
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No, I was being correct. He was anticipating an emergency stop, not an argument, you fool! Was he?
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at the other end of the scale from our failure, you turned up with some scissors in your pocket,
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That's really what it was. When he said, the man,
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what I heard was, "Congratulations,- Mr Clarkson, you are the best driver I've ever seen in my life."
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surrounded by sheep that were no longer alive and bits of what used to be my mum's Audi.
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which is important and we got distracted
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To prop up the car industry, the Government is encouraging you to scrap old cars and buy new ones.
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to help Kim Jong-il buy nuclear weapons.
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the other is a totalitarian regime,- allegedly making weapons of mass destruction.
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Why would the South Koreans nuke Hammersmith?
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This is an important point. It is more ecological - and this is a fact,
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than it is to scrap it, throw it away and build a new one. True fact.
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and not Kim Jong-il. LAUGHTER
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Everyone had said it's superbike fast and I thought, "Oh, come on, don't be ridic...argh!"
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They're saying it's got more than 500 horsepower
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That's just staggering. A Bugatti Veyron, to put that in perspective,- is 521bhp per tonne,
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It's £100,000, but I don't believe cars can get better than that.
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You strap wardrobes, chests of drawers on there and... They've thought about it. See?
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That makes the worst noise... What?! It makes the best noise!
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It's like driving along - what's that opera singer called - Katherine...er...Jenkins!
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Lady Chatterley, goes in the barn with the gardener, in the hay,
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That's my point, it's a brilliant noise. The supercharger whine is a mechanical driving sound.
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so the cooler will be mine in 19 days, right -
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..the best noise that had ever come- out of a car came out of the stereo- in my 17-year-old Golf
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Actually, while we're on the subject of this,
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and the Daily Star, in an editorial, says that we've upset the Scouts and the Catholic Church
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Germans, blind people, anti-hunt protesters and smokers.
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How dare they? How dare they suggest that we would be rude to smokers?!!
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and I thought, "Why just do it at the track?"
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HOOFBEATS
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But the truth is, the place is shot- through with a love of speed...
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'the brand-new Lamborghini Murcielago.'
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Between me and it is a four-mile, arrow-straight stretch of highway.
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TYRES SQUEAL
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150.
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Whoa!
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or, to put it in plain English... the fastest Lamborghini ever made.
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'because a brand-new replacement is coming next year.
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'because from every angle, this last hurrah looks absolutely evil.'
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If a Toyota Prius came up behind and saw that, it would wet its pants.
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'So, LP670-4 SV.'
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The LP stands for...something.
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and also, quite a lot.
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It's got a lighter exhaust system, more of it's made of carbon fibre
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0-60, 3.2 seconds.
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Because that noise...
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and it too will die along with this car.
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'And I'm not the only one who thinks this car has a human soul.'
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Here's Mercedes talking about the exhaust on the SL Black.
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"a distinctive 12-cylinder sound from the two trapezoidal tailpipes."
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"through the trumpeting of mighty elephants, to the roar of a raging lion."
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You just get the sense that before this car dies, they actually wanted- to make it come to life.
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has transformed it into a completely different car.
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Don't get me wrong, it's still a big, scary car,
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Yeah, this'd be a lot easier if the desert would stay still.
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It is!
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'..but with the more rarefied and expensive hypercars.'
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That's an SLR 722 - like an SLR, only more.
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'let's see if the 722 can keep its royal status
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TYRES SQUEAL
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Try that on, fella.
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Man, this is close!
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Whoa! Braking up to the red light quite hard.
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I was there, alongside hypercar royalty. Compared to that,
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Quite a swan song.
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'the Murcielago has become one of the all-time supercar greats.'
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There's some evidence on these seats that you had a crisis.
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Thing is though, you've always said- that your favourite supercar is the Zonda F, OK?
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Come on!
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LAUGHTER
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top of our leader board.
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What? BOOING
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I have to work with that, week in week out.
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with German piano wire...
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All we know is that's three things he has in common with Margaret Beckett.
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Right, coming up to the first corner and he's coming in very hot.
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Stig seems to have it all under control at the moment though.
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Hammerhead. This is where understeer should rear its head.
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And the third thing, obviously,
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so that's probably why he's lifted off through the tyres.
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this car really is Widow Twankey with a wing.
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It did it in...
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It's moved up.
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It doesn't lie, the F's faster.
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He's the voice of the Harry Potter audiotapes, Blackadder,
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the only thing we can be sure he hasn't done,
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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What you're really saying is
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Yeah, gasp. Thank you.
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LAUGHTER No, you're pulling that face,
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For example, I've just had Tim Robbins in my ear
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I have no idea. You would know, you'd remember.
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without the sound of you wafting out of the children's bedrooms.
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It staggers me, you've managed to lose all this weight
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Nobody loses weight in America.
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and by about a month or twoafterwards I was at my full 21 stone.
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I did. I actually went to the General Motors Headquarters
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Yeah. And he said, "We're still the biggest automobile company in the world."
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And when he went to college to do automotive design
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If he'd tried that in Australia! Oh, yes!
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Yeah.
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in a time that was impossible if you hadn't driven in bus lanes.
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It is illegal for me to drive in bus lanes.
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You read that thing, it says from seven till something.
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And it says, "Buses and good vehicles only".
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It's like ones that say, "access only".
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Yes, it's become rather a large number.
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of a specific type of mobile telephone.
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where you can play it as a reco... Have you got that?
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This one might not be quite so upyour strata but it's called Grindr.
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No-one's going to now. Who made that noise?
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When you load it...
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and it tells you how close they are.- It says he's 20 yards away.
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Let's have a look.
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Just making sure mine isn't on. LAUGHTER
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LAUGHTER
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Some of them show rude parts which you won't want to see.
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It's a car show, I knew there was something.
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I drove in two reasonably-priced cars because the first one,
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and we obviously thought that was not safe to have.
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It's the second-to-last corner. Yes! Oh, that's a high speed.
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OK, there's a third attempt.
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Every time, I said to myself, "Smoothly."
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Who here would like to see Stephen's real lap?
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It might not be fast but let's make it smooth, Stephen, smooth.
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With his... That's fantastic!
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because that's a bit of understeer.
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except around my face! Ah!
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Here we go.
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That is bang-on, cutting the corner nicely.
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That was smooth.
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Who else do you think you beat?
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The problem is you were beautifully smooth
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Oh, no!APPLAUSE
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I could give you a hot, it was a hot day and, of course,
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Do you know what? I could be guaranteed that Alan doesn't watch Top Gear.
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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Earlier on we bought, insured and customised three cars
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when I sort-of ripped the body kit off the back on my Hyundai.
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Anyway, coming up now is the most realistic challenge ever attempted on British television.
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three hours after we'd said we'd be in, without waking them up.
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OWL HOOTS
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Oh, God. Ugh!
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WHISPERS: Yeah, this is a professional job.
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so that it hides the back and my mother won't see what I've done.
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50.4 decibels, that's like custard rustling, absolutely soundless.
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Come on. Come on!
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Come on, you stupid lump of Swedish lead.
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THEY LAUGH
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I might get in trouble.
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and they buried it in the summer house. Job done!
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Oh, no, no, no!
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and there's quite a lot of damage there.
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My Mum and Dad, they didn't wake up.
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The interesting thing is what James
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JEREMY CLEARS HIS THROAT What?
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LOUD TECHNO MUSIC For God's sake! No!
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God above!
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Can you smell smoke on my fingers? THEY LAUGH
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Oddly though, the man in the white coat was nowhere to be seen.
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Sunrise yellow.
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This man's destroying your Volvo. Are you going to sort him out?
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Mind the body kit!
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Ha-ha, "As you are 17, it is certain that at some point in the near future,
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"This is to find out how easy they are to repair."
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..and break out the hammers.
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Ah! Argh!
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watch that disappear thanks to the magic of polish.
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and need to straighten a dent, here's what you do.
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'Jeremy, meanwhile, was cheating.'
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You were 17? RS Turbo, straight through a fence.
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So, do you think you could use some fireman equipment to make that like new?
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it's too middle class.
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'..we had made no difference whatsoever.'
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'Then another challenge arrived.'
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"round the Hammerhead, do a handbrake turn
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"and you'll have five seconds added to your time for every object you don't hit."
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'that teenagers like to crash into.
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'that everyone, except a 17-year-old, can see isn't wide enough.
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than a good handbrake turn. God, yeah, fact.
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I have no feathers... But I can do this!
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'Armed with this new information about women,
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That's nice. Yeah.
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That's him being rubbish.
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'With James cleared off the track, I lined up for the off.'
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Missed!
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My God! That's substantial. Yee-ha!
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That's good. Wheelie bins.
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There's nothing I can do about the washer bottle,
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Yes!
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LOUD TECHNO MUSIC Oh, for God's sake.
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'why he'd bothered with a helmet.'
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'But then as he approached the girls, all became clear.'
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I might as well have cut my penis off for all the good that did.
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WHISTLING Perfect.
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'So now it was all down to me.'
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35 seconds before he moved more than a yard.
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You all right?
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That's my line!
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Luckily, children, I got better.
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Anyway...
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LAUGHTER Is that a minus?!
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and it's still here! Look! LAUGHTER
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When do you ever see the NHS go, "Oh, that's a nasty head wound,
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I got 103.
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Yes. Right. LAUGHTER
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Our teenage judges said they were prepared to award up to 5 points for a really good one.
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LAUGHTER What happened was...
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Jeremy Clarkson, it is now between you and me. Yes, it is.
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..nothing!
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There's nothing else going for you.- No, come on!
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This is also consumer advice... The door handle's come off!
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Yes!
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Anyway, I got nought? Yes.
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They did, didn't they? They did. What did they give you?
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Fairly beaten.
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that the best, THE BEST car for a 17-year-old is a beige Volvo estate with a broken back window.
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of the consumer advice for this week.
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and, in fact, I'm still there because now it's time for the moment
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the first-ever showdown between the- two fastest road cars of all time.
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The meeting point for the most amazing collection of numbers.
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and a top speed of 252 miles an hour.
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the McLaren F1.
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It was the fastest with a top speed- of 240 miles an hour.
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The engine bay was lined with gold
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from the 6.1-litre BMW engine.
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the McLaren and the Veyron are actually poles apart.
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the McLaren gets...nothing.
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It's gizmo cupboard is completely bare.
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And that shines through in the way they feel.
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that well-oiled, mechanical, metallic feel.
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HE LAUGHS
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and get in to the Bugatti Veyron.
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