Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.

When we went to Canada [with Top Gear], I was staggered about how many people got in touch ... Before we finish with The Grand Tour, we'll definitely be appearing in Canada at some point. Nothing is more certain than that.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.

It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and that’s all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities… You can develop a relationship with a car and that’s what non-car people don’t get… When something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.

They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.