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* [[Not a Scratch on It]]:
** The presenters did a two week feature to see how durable the Toyota Hilux pickup truck is<ref>In the U.S., a Tacoma is a rough equivalent to the Hilux</ref>. In the first week, Clarkson drove it down a staircase, rammed it into a tree, drove it down to the low water mark of the Bristol Channel's ten meter<ref>thirty foot</ref> tides and left it there (it actually broke loose from the moorings that were supposed to hold it on the jetty; they didn't find it until the tide went out -- six hours later -- half buried in the silt and sand), dropped it from a crane, drove it through a modular building, dropped a caravan on it, swung a wrecking ball at it and -- finally -- ''set it on fire.'' The next week, May set it atop a tower of flats several hundred feet high... which was scheduled for demolition. It went down with the building and had to be pulled off the debris pile. And it ''still'' started.
::The cast realised the magnitude of the achievement and now display the disfigured Hilux prominently in their studio, on a tilted podium. The Hilux they used was a used one they picked up for 1000 pounds, 13 years old and with 195,000 miles on it. Toyota subsequently released a model called ''The Invincible''. Clarkson and May used two which had been specially modified for Arctic use (one for themselves and one for the camera and support crew) in the Polar Special.
::James May then took the Hilux that had been used by the camera crew in the Polar Special, had it further modified, and drove it to the rim of the erupting volcano Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. May and the camera crew had left the volcano just hours before it ''really'' blew its top, shutting down air traffic over much of the Atlantic and Europe, in April of 2010.
** Richard Hammond complained to Jonathan Ross during an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es8sqgkiedo interview] that he was disappointed he had [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished|no cool scars]] resulting from his near fatal crash.
* [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]: "How hard can it be?" [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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** In the episode where May and Hammond work as "Scootermen", allowing them to test a lot of people's cars (with the tipsy owner in the back). Hammond says he doesn't want to criticise their cars in front of them, so he'll use ambiguous condiment-related adjectives ("these brakes are a bit salty", "this steering is peppery") to describe those negative aspects. May then says this is cowardly and resolves to speak his mind... then in a [[Brick Joke]] near the end we hear him saying someone's car is "quite cranberry sauce".
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: During the Middle East Special
{{quote|'''Clarkson (in a monotone voice):''' "To showcase my brilliant idea, we stopped at an underground market which had a waterfall and a river in it."}}
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: Older Citroens have oddities such as single-spoked steering wheels and controls in unexpected places. When reviewing a newer one, Clarkson remarked that he wanted to be able to start it by licking the sun visor.
* [[Vanity License Plate]]:
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