Top Gear (TV Series)

The Boys Build a Caterham (2006)

James May: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• James May - Presenter : To see if it's worth it, I'm going to test this ginormous city car on the streets of Liverpool. And to spur me on a bit, I'm going to have a race and it's against the latest French development in urban transport solutions: a couple of young men in silly trousers.

• James May - Presenter : I should probably explain that these aren't just any young men. They are masters of something called Parkour.

  [One of the Parkour masters runs in front of his car and makes him stop. The other vaults over the hood] 

  James May - Presenter : It's a French invention and involves that sort of thing. Running around the city, leaping across buildings and benches. You know, keeps them off the street.

• James May - Presenter : [narrating]  Not only were the scow Spidermen unstoppable, they also knew where they were going. Which I didn't.

  [James stops to ask for directions] 

  James May - Presenter : Excuse me, sir. Do you know where the Liver Building is?

  man : No, no. LIE-ver Building.

  James May - Presenter : Why isn't it called LIE-verpool then?

  man : Well... um...

• [James finally arrives at the Liver Building] 

  James May - Presenter : And they're not here. They are not here. No sign of combat trousers about. That is a victory for beer guts over washboard stomachs, fashionable clothes from army surplus shops, stupid expensive trousers. Here I am in my tatty jeans and my old biff about shoes with the broken laces and I've won.

  [We see that the Parkour masters have scaled the tower] 

  James May - Presenter : Oh, for Pete's sake!