Richard Hammond Quotes

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

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.

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.

Im not reckless. I was never reckless.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

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.

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

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.

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

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.

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.

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.

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

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!

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.