Top Gear, Series 2

[Jeremy is reporting on the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where, as he previously noted, he was waved to by Elle Macpherson]

Jeremy:
I went up the hill in the - there's a hill that you basically drive the, all the cars go up - and I went up in the McLaren Mercedes.

Both :
[in unison] The SLR.

Jeremy:
The new SLR.

Richard:
Yeah. Stunning thing. And?

Jeremy:
Well, I was still a bit drunk, so I have - there it is, look - um, I think... I have... I dunno.

James:
So hang on, it - so you're probably the first UK journalist to get in that car.

Jeremy:
Yeah.

James:
We've been talking about it for what now, two years, probably?

Richard:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

James:
And you went up the hill... drunk... waving at MacPherson Strut or whatever her name is out of the window.

Jeremy:
I wasn't driving it, I was slumped in the passenger seat.

James:
Oh, well, that's all right, then! Who was driving it?

Richard:
Can you tell us anything about it?

Jeremy:
It made a jolly loud noise in the condition I was in, that was for sure. It sounded like a Messerschmitt had mated with a Spitfire.

Richard:
To your drunken brain at the time.

Jeremy:
[imitates engine noise], only louder than that.

Richard:
You wouldn't make much of a war correspondent, would you, standing there in war-torn wherever with a desolated landscape, "So, Jeremy, what happened?" "Dunno! Drunk, missed it. Found it like this."