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"Think of something clever to say, for Christ"s sake, Harris, that"s the only thing you"re vaguely competent at." The road is challenging, the scenery sub-alpine magnificent and I"m driving a car I never thought would exist a rear-driven 500bhp Alfa saloon car, YIPPEE! And the vocabulary my addled brain keeps proffering to celebrate this momentous occasion? "Holy ****, it"s fast."Fast. The simplest speed adjective of them all. Rightly dismissed as banal and unimaginative by the masses, but that"s conveniently forgetting the primeval regression back-to-basic speech we all embrace when something takes us by surprise.The Giulia Quadrifoglio had taken me by surprise. The camera was rigged, the microphone was primed, I wanted to peer into its aperture and chatter about torque-vectoring, carbon propshafts and the manner in which its turbochargers scroll. But then I hoofed the right pedal into the bulkhead and my inner chimp yelled: "S**t, that"s fast!"This feature was originally published in Issue 284 of Top Gear magazine. TopGear.com exclusive: Chris Harris Drives the Ferrari F12tdf
Date written: 17 Jul 2016
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"Think of something clever to say, for Christ"s sake, Harris, that"s the only thing you"re vaguely competent at." The road is challenging, the scenery sub-alpine magnificent and I"m driving a car I never thought would exist a rear-driven 500bhp Alfa saloon car, YIPPEE! And the vocabulary my addled brain keeps proffering to celebrate this momentous occasion? "Holy ****, it"s fast."Fast. The simplest speed adjective of them all. Rightly dismissed as banal and unimaginative by the masses, but that"s conveniently forgetting the primeval regression back-to-basic speech we all embrace when something takes us by surprise.The Giulia Quadrifoglio had taken me by surprise. The camera was rigged, the microphone was primed, I wanted to peer into its aperture and chatter about torque-vectoring, carbon propshafts and the manner in which its turbochargers scroll. But then I hoofed the right pedal into the bulkhead and my inner chimp yelled: "S**t, that"s fast!"This feature was originally published in Issue 284 of Top Gear magazine. TopGear.com exclusive: Chris Harris Drives the Ferrari F12tdf
Date written: 17 Jul 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4296