7 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond is a car enthusiast and television presenter who is best known as the co-host of the popular motoring show Top Gear, alongside his former TV co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson. He has also presented various other television shows such as Top Gear: The Grand Tour and Richard Hammond's Motoring. He has also written articles for various publications including The Daily Telegraph, Autocar and Automobile and was a columnist for the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph.

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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. Richard Hammond
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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. Richard Hammond
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Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character. Richard Hammond
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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! Richard Hammond
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No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond. Richard Hammond
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I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents. Richard Hammond