My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!Collection: Car
No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.Collection: Car
I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!Collection: Car
My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!Collection: Car
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.Collection: Car
I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.Collection: Fitness
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.
I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.
With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.
The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.
I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.
For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.
You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.Collection: Cat
Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.Collection: Tree
All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.Collection: Epic
Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.Collection: Car
Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.Collection: Men
Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.Collection: Believe
Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.Collection: Car
Im not reckless. I was never reckless.Collection: Reckless
This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.Collection: Names
When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.Collection: Light
Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.Collection: Machines
Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.Collection: Italian
I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.Collection: Sticks
And to Mindy, I can only ever say a simple thank you. And dedicate the rest of my life to her.Collection: Simple
Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!Collection: Mother
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myselfCollection: Reality
I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously luckyCollection: Thinking