The crushing of the unfinished BBC’s Top Gear program and its Patagonia Special

Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 04:22 UTC

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Remember the BBC Top Gear program with Jeremy Clarkson, back in September/October 2014 when his planned tour of Argentine Patagonia and later Chile, ended with the team having to flee, given Argentine people’s animosity and which later included a diplomatic incident involving BBC? Read full article

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imoyaro
Oh my, Peronists acting out. Glad to see everyone got the right impression... ;)
Aug 12th, 2025 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Pytangua
Clarkson is a nasty racist macho man and I hope he one day pays the price for his xenophobia and 'little englander' and Daily Express mentality. Even on 'Who wants to be a millionaire' he still takes every opportunity to make pathetic jibes against Argentina if the country is mentioned in one of the questions.
Aug 12th, 2025 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse -2
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darragh
Know him personally do you?

If not then shut up.
Aug 12th, 2025 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Steve Potts
''However the problem was that the 928 happened to come with a license plate that some people in Argentina thought was a deliberate reference to the 1982 Falklands War, and the defeat by a British Task Force of the occupying Argentine military, H982FKL.''

OAS - Argentina’s request for Inter-American Pact of Mutual Aid during Falklands War: Falklands War –(Rio Treaty) TIAR (1 pg): https://www.academia.edu/40344534/Falklands_War_-TIAR
Aug 12th, 2025 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
Poor little Pytangua, upset over something so trivial, lol.
Aug 12th, 2025 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
Apparently it wasn't deliberate as the plate signifies it's origin and history. I personally didn't see any relationship to the Islands in the lettering.

“Well the number-plate is the old sequence : H982 FKL
H is the old year code, H meaning the car was first registered in 1991
FKL - Is the area code, FKL is maidstone in Kent.
982 - Is the sequence, so this is the 982nd car to be registered in the maidstone area in 1991”
http://www.reddit.com/r/TopGear/comments/2i5q86/h982_fkl_update_top_gear_crew_denied_permission
Aug 13th, 2025 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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