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Fast, truly exciting cars are being killed off so that pretty soon the officers will all be gone, leaving us with a field full of enlisted men.

— Jeremy Clarkson Born to be Riled (1999)

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Time is running out. Winter is almost upon us. For God's sake, get out there and live.

Born to be Riled (1999)

There's one other thing too. No car can truly be great unless it's a Ferrari.

Born to be Riled (1999)

Cars are some of the most intoxicating, most beautiful things ever forged by mankind.

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In Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.

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