Tag: UK plates H982 FKL

• Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 04:22 UTC

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

  

  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?

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• Friday, July 31st 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  Ex-Top Gear team will front a new motoring program with Amazon Prime

  

  Former BBC' Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have signed up to present a new show on Amazon's streaming video service. The trio will front three series of a new motoring program for Amazon Prime, with the first season to be made available worldwide in 2016.

• Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 05:18 UTC

  Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of Top Gear

  

  British TV and radio personality Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all-new Top Gear line-up, the BBC has announced. Evans said he was “thrilled” to get the job, describing the motoring show as his “favorite program of all time”.

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 09:34 UTC

  Falklands War plates' complaint rejected by BBC Trust: 'lack of evidence'

  

  The BBC Trust has rejected complaints over Top Gear's Patagonia special, in which a car number plate which appeared to refer to the 1982 Falklands war. The production team fled Argentina following protests over the use of the registration number H982 FKL.

• Monday, December 29th 2014 - 05:32 UTC

  Cotroversial two-part Top Gear Patagonia special aired on BBC2

  

  Critics agree only the segment where the crew is chased and thrown stones at by angry Argentines has some 'action'. The rest is the usual Top Gear travelogue.

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 08:22 UTC

  Top Gear episode filmed in Argentina to be aired Saturday

  

  When filming in Patagonia, the BBC crew and host Jeremy Clarkson were forced to leave the country after locals saw their cars' license plates, which were deemed 'provocative'.

• Thursday, December 11th 2014 - 12:27 UTC

  BBC team authorized to film wildlife in Tierra del Fuego under certain conditions

  

  A BBC crew is currently filming in Tierra del Fuego a documentary on the wildlife of the Beagle Channel Islands. The crew is escorted by an observer from the provincial government and according to local officials it had to sign a document by which when the material is edited it must clearly establish that it was filmed in Argentine territory, with support from local authorities.

• Monday, December 8th 2014 - 07:18 UTC

  Argentina claims BBC Top Gear had three different plates and planned to set the cars on fire

  

  The BBC Top Gear team which last October toured Argentina with three vehicles and which triggered a strong controversy apparently had three different plates in just one car and tried to torch the vehicles to cause further 'scandal', according to reports from the Patagonian police which were attached to a second letter sent by Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro to the BBC Executive Board.

• Friday, December 5th 2014 - 23:41 UTC

  Top Gear incident in Argentina: “Foreign Office did not incur in any additional assistance costs”

  

  The Foreign Office did not incur any costs in providing assistance to the BBC Top Gear team which was recently in an Argentine tour and was forced to leave the country under protection, following alleged disrespectful references to the 1982 Falklands war by the team.

• Tuesday, November 25th 2014 - 22:33 UTC

  Despite Argentine protests, BBC Top Gear Patagonia episode will be aired in Christmas

  

  After refusing to apologize to Argentina over a much questioned Top Gear episode filmed in Argentina considered “offensive” by the government of President Cristina Fernandez, the BBC has taken the controversy to the next level, deciding to air the episode in the network’s prime-time Christmas slot.