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We all know who was behind the wheel…

I’ve been rewatching some old Top Gear episodes and there are a few cars that seem to get overlooked compared with the usual favourites. Some of them were actually pretty impressive, so I’m curious what everyone thinks deserved a bit more appreciation from the trio.

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There are only two kinds of people in the world,
Those who can't help themselves from imitating Jeremy Clarkson while saying these words

- Baby Jesus
- Speed
- Jaaaaaag
- My Genius
- What a machine!!!!
- Oh no! Anyway
- Let's not get bogged down
- On that Terrible disappointment
- Speed & Power
- Hammond
- Blithering Idiot
- Moron
- Imbecile
- Oh hello!

And those who don't, there is no in between.

Let me know if I miss anything

Top Gear are always destroying cars, and usually it's some old rubbish that's already fit for the scrapyard. But every now and then they destroy something that makes you think, "You bastards, I would've quite liked that."

The one that really annoyed me was the Mk2 Golf GTI in the cheap hot hatches challenge. Surely by 2014 these were considered enough of a classic to save? It looked pretty decent apart from the iffy, door and had no advisories on its last MOT. I know they bought it for under £1,000, but were Mk2 GTIs really still that disposable then?

The other one was the ex-demo Lotus Esprit from the Patagonia Special, which had done under 30k miles. That one hurt.

The other one was the low mileage Renault A610 Turbo

It got me thinking: what Top Gear/Clarkson car destruction made you think "bstrds" the most? .

Thought y'all might enjoy this funny parody

Forza Motorsport 7 was THE Forza Motorsport game to have the widest variety of cars, including cars that have not returned in the later Forza titles, such as the 2004 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti.

I feel that the 612 Scaglietti is an underappreciated Ferrari, as it has a smoother V12 engine noise (very suitable for a grand tourer) compared to the visceral engine noises from cars like the Ferrari Enzo. But it still had cornering agility for such a big car.

But it was known in Top Gear for having a buzzing windscreen wiper motor during the Race to Verbier in Switzerland. In the words of Jeremy Clarkson, "STOP BUZZING!"

Seeing all the news reports of the BBC plowing ahead with reboot of Top Gear it got me to wondering about what might happen if the BBC were able to pull off bringing just one of the original trio back. Would that be enough to get fans to give it a chance?

I remember back in the early 2000s when Clarkson rebooted Top Gear he was the only familiar face from "old" Top Gear that returned to it which worked in part because prior to his exit from TG a couple years earlier Clarkson had sort of become the face of it for a lot of people. So it was a returning star, coming back to take over and reboot the show "in his own image" so to speak.

I wonder if that could be done again by bringing back just one of the trio to serve as the new "face" of the whole thing. Anchoring it all in something familiar. Personally I genuinely think Hammond might be able to do it, especially because he is notably younger than the others.

Anybody else have any thoughts?