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Tag: Richard Hammond

  • Friday, April 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Top Gear “Patagonia Special” cars shredded to nut size in “hush-hush” operation

    BBC's Top Gear team that visited Argentina, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond

    Imagine three top-line sport vehicles, worth tens of thousands of dollars, from some of the most famous world brands coming to their proud end rolled over by caterpillars and shredded to pieces no greater than nuts. And the vehicles did not belong to drug dealers or arms trafficker or were part of some US extravagant show.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

    UK's The Grand Tour motoring program call Argentina “God's cesspit”

    Richard Hammond said: “Lancashire is his cupboard under the stairs, our tent’s about to blow down… Argentina is his cesspit”

    The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond has reignited the trio’s feud with Argentina by calling the country ‘God’s cesspit’. Jeremy Clarkson famously managed to rile millions of Argentines back in 2014 when he drove through Patagonia for an episode of Top Gear with a license plate number which read H982 FKL, sparking complaints the vehicle was referring to the Falklands War.