Top Gear Season 22 & Xmas Special

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Iamzod said:
The company director of the business that sold the car to the BBC which specifically deals in classic Porsches says he was contacted asking specifically for a Manual 928GT. He also says if he knew it was for TG he wouldn't have sold it to them as they are rare & should be cared for.

Nowhere does he say he was contacted asking for one with an offensive plate.
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So rare that he didn't keep it himself? A sale is a sale, I'm sure he doesn't really care who the car goes to.....
 
Jono8 said:
No one can prove anything. What facts are you referring to? What the Top Gear team has told us? Great "facts".

To anyone with half a brain, who is aware of the history of Top Gear and is aware of the interests and personalities of the three stars, it is pretty obvious what happened.
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To anyone with a complete and fully functioning brain it's clear that you should be wearing a tin foil hat.
 
Iamzod said:
The company director of the business that sold the car to the BBC which specifically deals in classic Porsches says he was contacted asking specifically for a Manual 928GT. He also says if he knew it was for TG he wouldn't have sold it to them as they are rare & should be cared for.

Nowhere does he say he was contacted asking for one with an offensive plate.
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Come on now, never let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy. It's obvious the BBC paid him off using the unused budget in the Jimmy Saville hush fund. ;)

asim18 said:
lmao. You must also believe that Hammond and Clarkson actually walked that mammoth distance to the nearest shop just to get bolt cutters then.
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No, I don't. It was blatantly a setup, like the Caravan fire and Clarkson's CX motorhome thing going off a cliff.

It's not rocket science to work out what's a TG setup and what isn't. Its common sense.
 
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Dogbreath said:
To anyone with a complete and fully functioning brain it's clear that you should be wearing a tin foil hat.
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Tin foil hats are very much not part of my wardrobe!

I simply cannot believe people honestly think Jeremy (or Hammond and May for that matter) did not notice the connotations of that plate immediately. Jeremy Clarkson. Jeremy freaking Clarkson! Come on now, it is utterly absurb to think that he didnt!
 
Jono8 said:
I simply cannot believe people honestly think Jeremy (or Hammond and May for that matter) did not notice the connotations of that plate immediately. Jeremy Clarkson. Jeremy freaking Clarkson! Come on now, it is utterly absurb to think that he didnt!
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It's a few random letters and numbers? As others have stated you can own a reg plate for years without noticing - so anything is possible.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that if TG were going to do it deliberately they would have gone full on in your face e.g. F982 WAR or any number of other permutations that they could have had made up as fake plates or got as a cherished plate etc. - but as previously stated it was the original plate - not changed.
 
Armageus said:
but as previously stated it was the original plate - not changed.
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Why does that matter?

Armageus said:
It's a few random letters and numbers? As others have stated you can own a reg plate for years without noticing
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Yes, you can. Not Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, whilst they are doing an Argentine special with many references to the Falklands war.
 
If it hadn't been all over the media to begin with, i'm not sure i would have noticed the significance, nor would an Argentine I suspect.

I've no idea if english media flows over to Argentina or not, or whether the BBC deliberately stirred it in Argentina to drum up some publicity for the show, because they want to sell it to more countries.

Also from that 'riot' footage, there didn't seem to be thousands and thousands of people hurling stones, nor did anyone appear to do anything when they were 'hiding' in the hotel.

Also according to Argentine press, the presenters were flown directly out of Ushuaia to BSAS and then back to the UK and only the production team went back via the cars, so all this 'protect the star car' stuff in the film was bs. :)
 
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MagicBoy said:
Assuming they found someone with access to the DVLA database , you can't just search it with only a registration plate and no other information...

That and all searches are logged IIRC. My work have access to it for parking enforcement reasons.
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So what? They obviously didnt search for that specific number plate or even necessarily for a number plate of that ilk. That would be incredibly tricky.

Either on their search for V8 sports cars of that era they saw this with this particular number plate and thought "Ha, perfect" or at the very best (giving them the benefit of the doubt here) it was bought and then they immediately realised it had that number plate on it but decided it was great and used it anyway.
 
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Jono8 said:
and is all i have said all along.
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The car was picked because it had that number plate. I bet they couldn't believe their luck.
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make it appear that you are subscribing to the "let's find a numberplate and structure a TV show around it" view from those who believe everything they read in the Daily Mail.

In retrospect it's slightly ambiguous and could be taken either way, but given the context of the discussion going on around it you hopefully can see why it would be taken the other way.
 
oldbag said:
Also according to Argentine press, the presenters were flown directly out of Ushuaia to BSAS and then back to the UK and only the production team went back via the cars, so all this 'protect the star car' stuff in the film was bs. :)
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I think it was more the fact that a crew member will have been driving each star car so had a greater risk than the other cars in the convoy.

It wasn't until they got through the first riot that they realised it was the star cars being targeted rather than the presenters, that's when they made the decision to abandon the star cars.
 
http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/series-22-top-gear-preview-2015-1-2

Top Gear has taken decrepit old cars all over the world, from Bolivia and Botswana to Bristol and just outside of Bristol. The most remarkable thing about these endeavours was that, despite the abuse thrown at them, the knackered old cars generally kept going. But then they would, given they are largely simple and mechanical. But what about the cars of today with their complex electronics and computer radar-guided Bluetooth massaging seats? How would they get on in a harsh, dusty environment?

To find out, Jeremy, Richard and James were told to pick a brand new GT car each and assemble in one of the toughest places on Earth, a place where General Motors once fetched up with a Euro-spec prototype and promptly went back to the drawing board when outback roads made it snap in half. We're talking of course about Australia...
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