Top Gear Season 22 & Xmas Special

TheVoice · 28 Dec 2014 at 20:40

So you find it easier to believe that they set out to buy a car with a deliberately offensive number plate, and then created the entire challenge for the show around it?

Kamerad · 28 Dec 2014 at 20:44

Hard to believe that no one on the team realised.

Danthus · 28 Dec 2014 at 20:49

And even though the Top Gear team had caught wind of the controversy they left the number plate on the rear of the car.

ZG002 · 28 Dec 2014 at 20:57

TheVoice said:
So you find it easier to believe that they set out to buy a car with a deliberately offensive number plate, and then created the entire challenge for the show around it?

No but I bet they couldn't believe their luck when they saw the plate.. It's not like they needed a 982. It's all about v8's plenty to choose from.

DanTheMan · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:07

TheVoice said:
At least read this then:
http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2014/10/10/top-gear-in-argentina-what-really-happened/

I'm not typically a conspiracy nut, but I fail to believe the number plate is merely a coincidence. The article states that when they changed plates, the rear one they used was the one left behind underneath from when the previous owner registered a private plate. Why would that still be underneath after all this time?

Aldo, there was a bit in the first episode where Jeremy said that he would not mention the Falklands war directly but wwould have to be 'clever about it' with a cheeky smile.

Fuzz · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:08

Trifid · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:11

OldCoals said:
And even though the Top Gear team had caught wind of the controversy they left the number plate on the rear of the car.

I don't imagine it would be easy to get the plates legitimately changed at short notice in a foreign country.

bcjames · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:11

That all got a bit heavy!

Rainagul · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:14

That ending was so much better than car football

Pigeon_Killer · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:16

Pushing the boundaries for a few cheap laughs will get one of them seriously hurt if they keep that up.

Danthus · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:17

Pigeon_Killer said:
Pushing the boundaries for a few cheap laughs will get one of them seriously hurt if they don't learn their lesson soon.

Were Clarkson, May and Hmmond in the convoy?

Jimbeam3678 · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:18

OldCoals said:
Were Clarkson, May and Hmmond in the convoy?

Did you watch the program? They stayed back in the hotel.

ZG002 · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:20

They bailed out, crew drove the cars, not sure why they didn't just get shot of the cars when it kicked off at hotel.

spaz · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:24

Omg when Richid lol

dalin80 · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:25

Such scripted nonsense! Do they really expect us to believe that they didn't set up those protesters to throw rocks at them! I gave up after 20m because I'm so much better then all of you.

Jimbeam3678 · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:27

dalin80 said:
Such scripted nonsense! Do they really expect us to believe that they didn't set up those protesters to throw rocks at them! I gave up after 20m because I'm so much better then all of you.

I can't believe you seriously think that to be honest :rolleyes:

Vertigo · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:28

ZG002 said:
They bailed out, crew drove the cars, not sure why they didn't just get shot of the cars when it kicked off at hotel.

Yeah that was bizarre - cars should have been ditched immediately.

What I found most shocking was the Argentinian police. Not only that they were totally incapable of keeping a violent baying mob at bay but that they were the first ones to throw accusations about the number plate. Err, what business is it of the police? Is there some crime that covers "aggravating the natives over the Falklands war" or were the police just as much a mob of xenophobic morons as the locals?

Remind me never to go anywhere near Argentina.

Janesy B · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:29

The Argies are sore losers.

fadetoblack · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:33

Was crap to be honest

Third Opinion · 28 Dec 2014 at 21:39

Vertigo1 said:
Yeah that was bizarre - cars should have been ditched immediately.

What I found most shocking was the Argentinian police. Not only that they were totally incapable of keeping a violent baying mob at bay but that they were the first ones to throw accusations about the number plate. Err, what business is it of the police? Is there some crime that covers "aggravating the natives over the Falklands war" or were the police just as much a mob of xenophobic morons as the locals?

Remind me never to go anywhere near Argentina.

Would have been the same here, wasn't that many years ago we had riots and the police were powerless.

The number plate meant nothing to me but it did to the DVLA, an offended the locals. Seems it did belong to a Porsche but not that one.

Guess they got to be controversial again but at a cost. The Argentinian Army was mainly conscripts of youngsters not wanting to fight. I am sure their families are very bitter they were taken apart by a very professional army.

Forget the politics, they will understandably be angry.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...top-gears-argentine-misadventure-9778399.html