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** Richard Hammond's "Donkey" from the Bolivia special, a Toyota Land Cruiser which had things go wrong with such regularity you could set your watch by it.

 

{{quote|'''May''': [''while Clarkson is looking at a board of tools''] That's the precision tool board. The hammer lives elsewhere.}}

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: All three presenters frequently try to paint the others as this.

{{quote|'''May''': The fact is if I was only three inches tall, but the same person, the cat ''would'' kill me.}}

* [[Caustic Critic]]: Probably all the presenters at times, but especially Clarkson.

** May also uses one in the North Pole Special, while balancing on a bridge of ice. Clarkson tells him to stop before he cuts his arm off.

* [[Character Development]]: All three. Over the course of 12 seasons, Clarkson has become sharper on some issues and mellower on others; Hammond has become slightly less reckless; and May has become bolder and freer (and faster!).

* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: Jeremy declared that the Dodge Viper was a car "so sophisticated, it could write its own name." He then proceeded to write the word "Viper" on the test track, using skidmarks.

* [[Country Matters]]: In Series 15, Clarkson looked for anagrams in his co-presenters' numberplates. He found "Liar" in Hammond's L48I RAR and "Gosh" in May's (GS99 HOS), but didn't bother to point out the one in his own CTU 131N.

** Played for laughs, with the presenters always getting computer terminology wrong ("if you own an internet, why not visit us at Top Gear Dot Internet Dot Website Slash BBC London W12") and some celebrities' names, like mixing Puff Daddy / P Diddy's names to produce "P Diddly".

** May is usually good for references to 'GameStation', 'Facetube' and 'YouBook' as a subversive means of [[Product Placement]]. He also deliberately mangles some brand names, like Clarkson's "ippod" {{[[[IProduct]] iPod}}]and the "gock-ikle" [Gocycle] electric bike.'

 

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