The issue as well was that some of the "veterans" were way too young to actually have been there during the falklands they were just wanting a fight! the argentine ambassador went to the BBC demanding an apology from them and fair play to the BBC they refused.
The BBC only toughed it out because Argentina is basically a "white" country. Had it been an African,Asian or Arab country the BBC would've caved in before tea time, so don't make out like the BBC have balls or morals.
@@astoraan6071 no bro you guys have amazing double standards that boaders foolishness. check 1992 fiorentina football club away shirt and why it was banned. Europeans do this to check the waters like hiking in north korea
The plate was H82 FKL. The BBC said that was the plate on the car when they bought it and provided the registration history. The loose reference was H for Colonel H Jones who was a British Paratroop officer killed in the war and awarded the VC for bravery. The 82 was for the year of the war - 1982 and the FKL for Falklands. Fun fact - the Falklands have never belonged to Argentina and were not taken from them by Britain. Argentina invaded thinking that Britain would do nothing about it and it would be popular with Argentinian voters. They didn’t reckon on Margaret Thatcher who sent a full on military taskforce down there to get them back. Argentina was defeated and they haven’t been back since.
the iron lady may be a controversial figure within the uk, but she took sh"t from nobody and even had a stern word with reagan about the recon planes he was sending over to give the argentinian army intel on the task force.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr unfairly so as I've learnt a few years ago, although trying to find articles on her nowadays (before search engines got political) it was easy to find articles even from people who weren't fans talk about how terrible the UK was doing in the 70s which even Labour admitted to, how the UK needed an IMF bailout, how all but a few (miners obviously, but not all miners) businesses were privatised easily and smoothly and went from in the red (a drain on the rest of the UK) to in the black and paying taxes. And since businesses were customer first then waiting lists disappeared overnight (BT), the constant repairs disappeared (which got employees more work) and prices came way down, and quality up. And there's a lot to say, the riots had started under Labour, coal and energy were so expensive the poor suffered (cheaper to get coal from Australia than the UK) inflation destroyed people's savings, which lead to rolling brownouts and 3 day work and school weeks. I've seen so many people complain "she took school kids milk away", yeah but she got parents back to work, kids back to school, and electric 7 days a week. And that's why she was voted in 3 times, people loved her. But many have rewritten the past.
@@nicosmind3 I agree, a lot of peopele cant look past their political leanings and forget that she did some damn amazing work. no one is perfect, but she really did her best for the country.
@@nicosmind3 Just as you have done, rewriting the past indeed. I'm guessing you were one of the lucky few foreign billionaires who were able to buy the majority of the shares in our national assets for a song, while any Brit who wanted shares was limited to a few hundred and had to pay top dollar. The prices that you mentioned, went up not down, there was a public outcry at the amount of profits that were being drained from the economy and straight into foreign based company accounts without any taxes being paid at all. The Tory response was typical, they used the billions the country received from the sell-offs to buy the next 2 elections by lowering taxes for all, which, as any economist will tell you, benefits the wealthy more than the poor. They also closed down the mines, shipyards and hundreds of ancilliary companies, making millions of people unemployed in the most deprived areas of the UK. They promised cleaner, higher paying, high-tech jobs, which duly arrived, but they arrived in London and the South East, whilst the majority of deprived areas of the country received nothing but abuse and name-calling from the Tory gutter-press, all because they were unemployed, through no fault of their own. Margaret Thatcher was indeed a divisive figure, she was hated most for the deliberate dismantling of our manufacturing industries and the sale of our profitable national assets, but she did one good thing, as far as I am concerned, she assembled and sent the task force to take back the Falklands.
I noticed that too. If the people had guns, they wouldn't have been using eggs or rocks. It does offer insight into the American mentality on gun ownership.
The Falklands war kicked off because, at the time, Argentina was ruled by a very unpopular Military Junta, who decided to divert attention away from their failing policies towards a national war cry to retake the Falklands from the British. The Falklands did once belong to Argentina, well they did station some troops there for a few years, but abandoned it. So the British moved in unopposed, and colonised it, mainly for the whaling industry. When the Argentines invaded there was a sizable population of mainly British descent, and a Governors' residence defended by about a dozen British soldiers.
The Falklands have never actually been ruled by Argentina! In reality the Falklands were under British rule before there even was an Argentina. The people of Argentina have essentially been sold the lie that at some point the Falklands were part of Argentina, that simple isn’t true, the islands at one point were Spanish but never Argentinian.
Back then i was a member of a forum which is no longer active and was following the production side of Top Gear episodes. People there would post everything they would become witness to when the guys were filming. And then came the videos for the Patagonia special. People were generally excited, since it's not everyday that the most successful and famous TV show in history, visits your country and were sharing short snippets and selfies they took with the guys and/or the cars. But one night a dude started talking about a mob organizing and everyone was puzzled. Few more people came up with videos of crowd gathering to protest to Top Gearl in some city called Rio Grande (hadn't heard about it back then). Some people in the video had pike axes and some, get that - to protest against a TV SHOW - MOLOTOV COCKTAILS. So yeah, the crew made a very VERY good decision to go for the river crossing. As to why this happened - well this is what blind patriotism and ignorance give birth to. The stunt they pulled in Vietnam with the American bike, blasting "Born In The USA" was the biggest and most daring one they've ever pulled, but even so people were like "oh you brits and your sense of humor..." and nobody got hurt. They paid proper respect to the war with the pieces about the deaf guy on the beach, writing about the B52 bombers in the sand and The Citadel. It's moronic to truly judge people solely on their nationality. Nothing wrong with a bit of fun and joking around on stereotypes as long as you judge the person for his personality and not his race or nationality. I mean i often joke about you, the Americans with guns and stuff, but when i meet one here i never start searching him for weapons or ask him if he would invade my kitchen for my oil. People just have to not forget that there is a difference between on country's government and its people.
I am a Canadian, and early in the trump presidency I was visiting my sister who lives with her family in Missouri. One day i went to the local Best Buy and picked up a couple movies that weren't released on 4k in Canada, and when I went to do a price match with Amazon the store manager noticed my amazon shipping address was in Canada. All of a sudden things got very hostile, other employees were called over and I got a lecture about how Canada is an enemy of the US because of unfair trade practices. I was told in no uncertain terms that I should go back to Canada and shop at a Best Buy there. This is between Americans and a Canadian, completely unhinged and with no basis whatsoever. Imagine you fight a war and lots of soldiers die, how easy it would be for nationalists to go overboard.
America took in escaped Nazis and also provided Nazi scientists, engineers, weapon designers, doctors in and gave them citizenship, NASA was essentially built up of Nazi scientists. What's your point?
@@alfioplays7443 Most of the Nazis escaping from Germany post war headed for South America, mostly Argentina. American only selected a few selected scientists for the things like the Paperclip project.
Just some context for you: Clarkson's number plate was something like H982FKL, which the Argentinians interpreted as 1982 Falklands as if Clarkson was mocking the Falklands war of 1982, where the Argentinians invaded the Falkland islands (which they had never previously owned) and claimed they should be Argentinian because they are on the same Tectonic plate... They eventually lost the war and the Falkland islands voted to stay British by overwhelming majority, but the war cost many needless deaths on both sides, especially the sinking of the Argentine destroyer, the Belgrano. The Argentine dictator at the time in reality used the invasion as a distraction from the terrible Argentine economy at the time in hopes of gaining some support from the general population, which worked to an extent. To this day, many Argentinians still believe that these islands are rightfully theirs, and many still hate the British for winning the war. In reality, the Spanish/French have a more substantial claim to them than the Argentinians, but that's by the by. Ironically, the number plate was an absolute coincidence according to James May, who in an interview said it was one of two Porches of that model/year in the UK at the time, and the only manual IIRC, which is what Jeremy preferred and hence bought that vehicle. Cheers for the video, more TG please if possible!
I worked with an Argentinian in the oilfields of Alberta..He Told me In 79 he was 17 years old and had just joined a union, general Pinocette and the Army had taken over and had bad all union members arrested calling them communists. My friend Oscar said he knew fk. all about politics he was just a 17 year old apprentice. but he still spent four and a half years in an Argentinian concentration camp.The prisoners weren't water boarded , no, in the basement there was an old bath tub full of human shit that they were held under in. He was deaf in one ear as one time he was tied to a chair and a guard kept slapping him up the side of his head till his ear drum burst.Another time he was beaten so badly he couldn't even stand for 3 days and was nursed by other prisoners. This was at the same time the Argentinian army was disappearing people But as I was an ex British soldier we'd still argue who owned the Falklands /Malvinas.
What I will say is that Clarkson is kind of well known throughout his career for needling peoples about British victories including the Falklands and as many know throughout TG he has made many borderline xenophobic rants about many cultures. That doesn't excuse this utterly dangerous behaviour by the vets but it does also help to understand why people often have violent reactions towards him as a person.
galtieri invaded the falklands In the late 70s/early 80s to get away from the fact that he was becoming unpopular, and to win the falklands from us, and we kicked their arses, it was a silly war, and lots of good men on both sides were lost.
There’s a Welsh settlement in Patagonia with several thousand people. They speak Welsh and Spanish. Trouble is, Jezza’s never been kind to the Welsh either.
I noticed when watching this again here now, that some of the "angry mob" had stated in police presence that more angry mob were on the way, and threats of violence but the police didn't actually do anything except basically reiterate that they had to GTFO. And it appeared, to me at least, that it was the police supposedly escorting the crew who seemed to be the ones who gave the order to stop the convoy for an attack, but instead the crew were telling each other to keep the convoy rolling. And the increasing angry mob were waiting ahead. So they knew what route they were being taken. It makes it seem like even more corruption really, the behaviour of the supposed law enforcement. anyway, this whole thing, whether a car with a certain reg plate was deliberately sought, or found through happenstance and bought through 'mischief'/provocation, it was dumb, but it absolutely does not in ANY way condone the violent attacks, the damage to people at the time physical and mentally traumatic, and I would imagine for some there's a level of PTSD or related in terms of long term injury, property damage, the behaviour of the actual people there was abhorrent
Nah, the police were actually great with them, but they said they could essentially only protect them so much because there were far more of the mob than them, and they weren’t willing to risk their lives in potentially violently putting down the protest. They did their best tbh. The mob knew the route because it was the main route to the border, because it was seen as the safest route and the one the police could kinda protect to a degree. The registration plate was a genuine coincidence but obviously because of their past history people didn’t believe it unfortunately.
This was one scary episode to watch I honestly thought the three were in the convoy originally but even though they weren't the crew were treated as though Jeremy Richard and James were there, how close they came to serious injury is insane. I love the episode where they crate a rocket powered mini to go down a ski slope well worth a watch also the episode for amazon where they have to capture specific animals including a hippo all done in Colombia meaning Pablo escobars land has to come in to it as he had the only hippos in the country and they still live there. Also any episode they did where they drove on the worlds most dangerous road in semis
My dad was recalled to train the troops for the Falklands war in survival tactics. This is from when he was in Burma in the second world war. He was recalled in total four times to teach troops how to survive. Makes me very proud. I miss you dad
People died and seriously injured over fk all.. but politics.... won out of nationalism. Thatcher attacked when Argentina's were outside the exclusion zone and were ready to talk.
Calling the embassy before leaving the hotel is something that you can say that they should have done in hindsight, but at the time the problem was just with one group of veterans in the south of the country. it was not until they were near the place where they entered Argentina that they learned about the 300 car mob ahead of them, and that group of veterans were demanding that the crew left, so leaving without calling an embassy (bearing in mind the time scale they had to work with (dictated by the veterans, i.e. "there would be violence if we weren't gone in three")) was actually a sensible thing to do as if any of them took the time to call an embassy they would have missed the 3 hour deadline, and people would have gotten hurt and potentially killed.
They did of course call the Embassy, and like you said, the Embassy told them to GTFO because there was nothing they could do in three hours. Clarkson, Hammond and May were snuck out of Tierra del Fuego in the boots of cars, and iirc the British government chartered a special flight out of Ushuaia for them and the female crew to Buenos Aries, after hours of negotiation with the Argentinian govt. They then flew from there to the Falklands where the British Army picked them up to take them home. All this only worked because the Mob thought the three had left in the convoy, and Top Gear was able to rely on some favours from mates in the military (that they’d made over years of doing stunts and films with them) and government. Madness!
They did a Middle East Special to follow the journey of the three wise men. They were denied entry to Iraq. You definitely need to watch whole episodes
They started in Iraq, the tried to cross into Iran but were denied entry because Iran has banned the BBC. The spookiest thing about that special is them driving through Syria just 10 weeks before the Syrian civil war started. It's like a time capsule of a place doesn't exist anymore.
I think you guys should make it your mission to watch the Too Gear Road Trip Specials, they go all over the world on driving adventures, I think you’ll both love it! 👌👍
we kicked their arses out of the Falklands in 1982... when they invaded saying the islands belong to them... the island were inhabited by British citizens so of course we went to defend them.... sod all there apart from some farmland and five species of penguins.... i have a feeling they think there is oil
For anyone who doesnt know 1982. Falklands War happened UK V Argentina with the brits winning. Argentina have since said the islands are theres. The riots started because of Jeremys Plates. They came with the car when they came out the factory. I beleive it was H982FKL.
Basically Argentina wanted the Falkland Islands right after the British found lots of oil around the islands. And they tried to take it by force but got spanked. Even though they got spanked the Argentina government told its citizens that they were winning the war when in reality they were getting spanked. This caused outrage and upset as soon as the war was over and the British had won.
They've assumed oil since the 1950's and it was 1998 before any exploratory drilling occurred. The Falklands war was a desperate dictator seeking an easy target to offset chaos in his own country, they assumed the UK wouldn't fight for it, even the USA asked us to give it them - Galtieri was an American creation in their drugs war, if we had surrendered the Falklands every contested island and British territory would have been in danger...
You should have held back a couple of weeks with this one. It's the 40th anniversary of the end of The Falklands War on 14th June. A quick history of the conflict. The Argentinians have long claimed they own the islands despite the fact the British have been settled there since before Argentina existed as a sovereign nation. On April 2nd 1982 the Argentine army invaded and and after spirited resistance from the around 70 Marines stationed there they were able to capture the island. Later also taking South Georgia. Margaret Thatcher then PM ordered that the islands be retaken. A not inconsiderable feat when you consider the 8,000 mile distance between the two sides. There are a couple of interesting SAS, and SBS (Special Boat Service - they do everything the SAS does, but in flippers) stories you might want to check out. Our boys in black were out there, and in Argentina conducting operations. The most controversial moment of the war was the sinking of the Argentine ship, The General Belgrano. Sunk outside the exclusion zone but it was acknowledged as being justified in the end. You boys might better know the ship as the USS Phoenix. One of the ships to survive the attack at Pearl Harbour. It's also the only ship to have been sunk by a nuclear submarine, Conqueror. Who sailed back into port flying the Jolly Roger as is traditional. A British ship, HMS Sheffield was also sunk, struck by Argentine missiles. There's a RUclipsr by the name of Jeff Taylor who I believe was on board it. It's also where we first saw Harrier Jump Jets in action for the first time. You kind fellas gave us some nice Sidewinder missiles for their pilots to play with. Ultimately the British landed a force on the island. Men of the 2nd Parachute Regiment and Royal Marines "yomped" across 56 miles of rough terrain, carrying 80lb packs in 3 days. Their helicopters had been on board another ship sunk. The Battle of Goose Green lasted a day and night with the British capturing quite a number of Argentine soldiers. During the fight the commanding officer of 2 Para, a Lt Colonel was killed whilst charging a machine gun. He was awarded the Victoria Cross. The capital Stanley was eventually surrounded, a ceasefire called, and a surrender arranged 2 April - 14th June 1982. Margaret Thatcher won her next election on the strength of winning the war.
@@Kazza_8240 Margaret Thatcher. The best prime minister England has ever had. Taught scargill and those scum bag miners a lesson as well. 3 cheers for Maggie. Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY.
@@badrobot3159 I'm going to have to quote Limmy here - ' *honk if Thatcher's deid* 🤣📢📢 Ding dong that wicked old witch is dead! 🧙🏼♀️ Fk the Torys 😃🏴
Long ago I used to work in Spain and I met many American citizens and most of the backpackers had a Canadian flag on their packs, when asked they told me they got less hassle displaying a Maple Leaf then Stars and Stripes.
Uniformed and Angry is a very deadly thing to be up against. I'd say 90+% of these people wasn't told the whole facts and as it passed down from idiot to idiot it got less and less further from the truth.
I don't mind the cricket lad but Paddy "I can't communicate without shouting" Mcguinness and Chris "I take myself far too seriously" Harris I can take or leave. For proper car stuff I go straight to the Harrys Garage and Tyrells Classic Workshop youtube channels
They should have ended the show when Clarkson etc left. There was no way they'd recreate or better it, especially not by finding a few random unfunny men who have no chemistry. The whole point of Top Gear was for the jokes, the pranks, the journeys, the chemistry etc. No-one cares how much horsepower the latest Ford Focus has, we want to see those guys falling over and breaking stuff.
@Embrace The Suck 21 - What this clip doesn't show is that one of the Production Crew members was female and between the ages of 13 and 16 years old. She was traveling in one of the convoy cars. Can you imagine how terrified she must have been? (This was spoken about in an interview with Jeremy Clarkson, a short time after the whole ordeal).
@@alfioplays7443 - If the Argentinians hadn't asked America, Britain and France for fleets of warships, aircraft and missile systems... "Thieves and pirates"? Can I take this opportunity to remind you that no indigenous population was genocided or disenfranchised by the first British settlers on the Falklands - and that Paulo and Jose are NOT traditional Aztec/Inca/Mayan names.
"At what point do you get the embassy involved".. i nearly died laughing...do you ever leave your bedroom.... they would do absolutely ZERO ... ! Hahahaha
Guns? We're British. We used guns in 1982, get with the program Argies. A few of my friends fought over there. Whatever happened to irony? Aren't we mates now?
Here's a depressing comparison: in 1945, the USA dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan. Forty years later, they were the closest economic & military partners; the same for Britain and Germany. In 2022, 40 years after the 72-day conflict, Argentina riffs-on like a victim.; democracy was returned to that country, immediately after their defeat... Britain: "Your Welcome"!
I am sure you will learn more about the Falklands and what it meant to each country but don’t forget the golden hand of Maradona at the world cup! Enough to start a war if you are and England fan!
Argentina think the Falkland Islands are theirs because they're close by but the people who live there voted overwhelmingly to stay British. The Argentinians invaded it in 1982 to reclaim it but lost and it remains a sticking point for them. Jeremy used a number plate which directly referenced the war and further antagonised the fierce nationalists and veterans, especially in that part of Argentina. Very far south, near the South Pole, not far from where the Falklands are. Tierra del Fuego, the "Land of Fire", is the closest land to the Falklands and so the connection with that area and the war is strong. Imagine Japan invades Hawaii, claiming it to be theirs but you win the war and the Hawaiians vote to remain American by like 95% majority and then you guys going to Japan to film a global TV show. The likelihood is that you would not be welcomed by those who fought in the war, those who were injured or those who lost family members in it.
Except he didn't 'use a number that referenced the war', it was the plate that had been on that car since it was newly registered in 1991. Easily verified in the UK on the government's own DVLA website.
false , England invaded the islands in 1883 , kicked out Vernet and the people, even the british know the falklands were from argentina , the labourist goverment in the 60s for example , the hipocresy about the referendum is so funny, the donbass and crimea are actually russian ?
Through that logic I should start hate groups against 60% of the world. As you know England was at the forefront of being d$cks and invading other countries only for them to revoult/vote to leave. Think if a couple of Americans came over in a pick-up with the date of when they kicked the British out (insert date here pls), I really don't think you would get that level of organised hate towards them
Jeremy Clarksons Licence Plate had FLK982 on it which people thought was Falklands 1982 when the UK kicked Argentina off the Falklands. Maybe watch Mini Histories Falklands War and see how bad things got. The biggest loss of life on the Argentina side was when we sunk one of their ships and it killed over 300. To be clear Top Gear where going through were most of those sailors came from. We sunk it before it sunk one of ours. Many Royal Navy Ships did get sunk btw.
The Argentinian vessel in question I believe was the Prinz Eugen but renamed. Fitting that the WW2 ship that escorted the Bismarck to it's final voyage should be sunk by the British.
@@jimmyfiddlesticks337 the ARA General Belgrano was originally the USS Phoenix which was based at Pearl Harbour and saw the incoming Japanese Planes during that raid.
The Argentinians claim the Falklands although they have not settled there. The Falklands is inhabited by people who are descendants of British settlers who wanted the islands to remain British. There’s been a referendum. There’s was an invasion in 1982. General Galtieri wasn’t doing too well in the opinion polls and needed a diversion. Invading The Falklands was it. Nobody imagined that the UK would do anything about it, the Falklands being an insignificant group of islands in the middle of nowhere with no assets. There was talk of removing its regular supply ship due to the cost. Trouble was Margaret Thatcher was then PM. For all her faults, she was the PM for this job. Three days after the invasion, a task force was dispatched to take the Falklands back. That was a miracle in itself. No other country would help although Ronald Reagan allowed the use of transport hubs. The war lasted 74 days. 255 British were killed, 775 wounded, 115 captured 649 Argentinians were killed, 1,657 wounded, 11,313 captured. They surrendered. 3 Falkland Islanders died. The war is famous for: The troop transport being destroyed, so the troops yomped from one side of East island to the other carrying all their kit before any fighting started. That’s 56 miles. UK Ships lost - 2 destroyers; 2 frigates; 1 landing ship; 1 landing craft; 1 container ship; 24 helicopters; 10 fighters. Colonel H Jones’ attack on an Argentine position. He died. He was awarded a Victoria Cross. The French supplied Argentina with Exocet missiles that sunk British ships. The French President declared an embargo on supplying Argentina with weapons but the French suppliers aided the Argentinians after the embargo was in place and helped to repair three launch sites that hadn’t worked before. Recently, it’s come to light that the French had kill switches built into the Exocet missiles ie the French could have given the British the codes to disarm their Exocets in Argentinian hands but chose to preserve their arms industry at a cost of over 80 British lives (who’s going to buy French weapons if the French can switch them off?). The sinking of the General Belgrano - previously the USS Phoenix sold to Argentina. There was an exclusion zone set up but the General Belgrano was heading towards it. It was sunk by a British submarine.That was controversial as the ship was outside the exclusion zone and 323 people died. Some consider it war crime. Penguins - everywhere on all the tv footage of yomping soldiers. There’s no love lost still between the Argentinians and the British as you can see from World Cup football matches. Maradona confessed to cheating in the 1986 quarter finals against England by manhandling the ball into the net like a basketball. Hand ball not football. They won. It’s the 40th anniversary of the war next month. There’s talk of oil finds near the Falklands …
Well said. But you forgot the Vulcan raid. The furthest successful bombing mission ever carried out by any country in history, and since. Travelling from the UK and back, destroying an airport that fell into Argentine hands. There’s a video of it on RUclips.
The captain of the Belgrano himself said in an interview that he hates the fact there's a controversy around the sinking, that they were a legitimate target because they would have attacked any British ship they found and that to claim they weren't a threat dishonours the memory of the crew who died.
@@fortuna1232 It was in 2009 he made that statement, 2 years before he died, that the sinking of the Belgrano was a legitimate act of war,, he explained that he was moving away from the British excursion zone for tactical reasons only when he was hit, not leaving the battle zone, and with 2 destroyers, the orders he was under was to attack the British ships in the following days, all 3 ships were armed with deadly Exocet missiles, and his mission was to get within range of the British ships, along with the Argentina Air Force causing a distraction, and use those weapons, now that was one hell of a threat, and been thousands of miles from home the British would be put into very vulnerable position if they lost any ships, as replacements would be out of the question, so it was of upmost importance to get rid of that deadly threat at the first opportunity!
las islas malvinas fueron parte del imperio español , cosa que fue reconocida por inglaterra. El territorio fue heredaro de los españoles en su totalidad y cuando in pais se descoloniza hereda todo el territorio quw era del anterior pais, entonces¿ porque inglaterra ño reconocio antes como.parte del imperio español para despues desdecirse? En cuanto al referendum es muy similar al.caso de crimea y rusia, que desplazo a la poblacion autoctona del lugar, reemplazandolos con personas de descendencia rusa, claramente para tener una mayoria a su favor. Los ingleses expulsaro a la poblacion argentina que ya habitaba las islas para poner ingleses. Un referendum, para que tenga validez,tiene que ser bajo supervision de naciones unidas y jamas es un medio valido.para resolver un conflicto territorial.
Tierra del Fuego was where the General Belgrano sailed from on it's last voyage, it was torpedoed and sunk a few days later by a British submarine with the loss of over 300 crew, which goes a long way to explaining the animosity against the Top Gear crew.
The thing is the Falkland islands have pretty much always been British, everybody there wants to be seen as British. The anger about that in Argentina doesn't make any sense
This is sad 😔 After they abandoned the three cars, the Argentinean government seized them and later all three of the cars were destroyed to prevent further attacks
We british were the first to find the fawklands and draw it up on a map there was back and forth for roughly 200 years and finally in 1982 we were outnumbered as we always are and we obliterated them and took the fawklands and I don't know when exactly but in about 2016 there was a vote for the natives and they voted 98 percent in favour of being under british rule.. and the Argentines are salty af cos they thought we are small and weak in modern times... but they forgot yeh we are small but we are the most ruthless and highly trained soldiers in the world as SAS raids cleared 60 percent of the potential battles
Falkland is Argentinian, the uk pirates packed it up with brits and then they did the referendum, but Falkland is been always Argentinian, the uk pirates always stealing oil and other resources from other countries..., fuking uk give Gibraltar back also!
@@illustratorkarina923 we were the ones who it on the map.. we named it first and stuck it on the world map so it is ours our people have lived there since its discovery before Argentinians even knew it existed
Not a great advert for the Argentinian tourist industry. Since this was a BBC show they wouldn't be armed, unless they had a private security company who had authorisation to carry protection.
I remember watching this episode when it aired and it was intense! It's a little different watching again knowing that they're OK but at the time i think i folded the cushion under my ass 3-4 times - with my cheeks - before this episode ended!
The issue is that in 1982 Thatcher sent an Avro Fulcan bomber plane to take out the runway to prevent any flights from Argentinians who wanted to claim the Falkland Islands as theirs. They actually had to refuel 13 times mid-air in getting the (soon to be destroyed Vulcan bombers) across an 8 hour flights. They couldn't use an aircraft carrier because the Vulcan's wing span was too great, at 99 feet long. Scary plane, was carrying 21 bombs. They actually didnt have enough fuel to finish the mission and were told to head back, abort mission. The crew (of the 2nd vulcan, the first one developed a problem and couldnt complete so the remaining one had to do it alone). They didn't know if they would have to eject and abandon the plane over the south pacific. Refuelling mid air in those bombers hadn't been practiced since 60s. The vulcan also, by the way was the plane that caused the USA to rethink their claims that their security defences were the best in the world.
Basically boys 1982 the Argentine invaded the Falklands island a British dependency island so we British sent down a task force Margret Thatcher government to kick the Argentines out resulting in a war Argentines lost ships aircraft and soldiers as did the British the Argentines considers the Falklands island ( the Malvinas ) belong to them historical but it was in British hands before Argentina became a country do yeah it's still a very touchy subject down there
Interesting how they make it appear the 3 were at as much risk as any of the crew in the convoy when according to an interview with James shortly after this was first broadcast the 3 and the female crew members were smuggled out to the airport before any of the crew left. It's also worth noting the size of their crew, many folk seem to believe it really is only the 3 of them with one cameraman whenever they are out and about.
I still don’t believe the plate on the Porsche was intentional. Clarkson had his own personal reasons for picking the Porsche to celebrate the V8, and TG has always been too respectful of war veterans to make fun of soldiers that fought them.
It wasn't, that plate had been on that car since 1991. And JC loves the 928 because one got him up to Darlington from London fast enough to see his Dad before he passed away.
You're extremely gullible. The number plate may have been genuine, but Clarkson being Clarkson definitely bought it because of the number plate, knowing it would cause a stir. Do you even know Clarkson at all? Unfortunately for him he got a bit more than he bargained for.
I would love to see you guys do more top gear specials and challenges. I know it’s difficult because of copyright but maybe now Top gear and The Grand Tour are basically over the video might not get blocked.
please, read books. don't say bullshit. you dont know nothing about this conflict. you talk about this because the air is free. we are a country open to the world, to every person who wants to be here, but we dont like empires like gb or usa GOVERMENTS. Yes, goverments. I love anglo culture in many aspects, and that culture was maid by real men and women. You are welcome guys. if you come to Argentina, you're gonna live a unique experience, really. sorry, my english is not good. the best for you guys!!
I hope the British Government lodged a formal protest ... since I am assuming that the crew had legal permission and permits from Argentina to film the show. Little solace at the time of the incident but still ...
Nothing to the extent of this but I have had some trouble overseas before. a Spanish girl spat at the floor by me and said the English in a aggressive tone in Barcelona In Icemeler Turkey 2 young men said to me as I was walking home from a bar with my partner... The west is dead and some other stuff In Turkish probably... even though its not even on the same scale I still felt extremely vulnerable, insulted, confused, Scared etc. I would never dream of treating anyone like that in my own town (except the scousers lol) people are brought up and radicalised to hate.
You should definitely watch Jeremy Clarkson's 2 documentaries, one on the Victoria cross and the other on the St. Nazaire raid, they are fairly long but excellent videos, I have seen other reactors watch them so they shouldn't get strikes.
some context, the show would travel to countries and would drive cars with something to trigger/mock the locals ... for example, they drove a car in India with a toilet on the roof, they had an episode where they made fun of Mexicans etc, etc... so they decided to mock the Argentines by driving 3 cars thru the town where the most casualties of the war were from, with license places having: ...one reflecting the year of the war... ...the second had the number of British casualties... ...and the third had the number of Argentine casualties. now imagine a tv show driving around Manhattan mocking the twin towers incident on 911... who are the aholes, the people reacting OR the instigators. keep in mind the following, the Argentines don't hate the english, most people don't know this, but during the war and now, there are many english living in Argentina, even members of the royal family live there too... particularly in the area where this happened. The show was just trying to justify their wrong doing so they wanted to paint Argentines and hate mongers etc.
Guys do you honestly think the embassies weren’t contacted on both sides of their countries; here in the UK 🇬🇧 and Argentina before embarking upon this KNOWING our history with Argentina? Of course they did. They aren’t stupid. However no matter how safe the embassies try to arrange things high risk is still involved. That’s what was shown here. Americans might think they can enter other peoples’ countries without permission and with arrogance but we Brits as non PC as a lot of us are (being a female black Brit I include myself), we don’t enter other peoples’ countries with all that crew and equipment without the country saying yes to both it’s ok and it’s safe.
After thinking about it you should really see the episode where they go up against the Australian top gear one of the best episodes ever, if you don't see it all at least watch the drag race with Richard and the van
Falklands, they said it But most hurt are they about sinkingof The Belgrano, Argentinian cruiser that wnt down with all 800 souls aboard (Wether she was sunk outside or inside the exclusion zone of 300 miles around the islands is up for debate) Brits say they had the right to sink it, Argentinia says they had no right as it was (just) outside the zone
The point is most were not "veterans". If you work the time span out, 1982 to whenever this was broadcast and then add 18 years, the veterans would be about 50 years old. Most of the mob were in their 20's and 30's. As James said, the people they had encountered on their travels were perfectly charming. A trap was set in Ushuaia because of its naval connections.
I highly recommend Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear look at Britains worst ever Car, the Reliant Robin, forever known as the Plastic Pig! As it was Pig ugly and made of plastic ( Glass Reinforced Plastic). Oh, and it only had 3 wheels, 🛺and an engine stolen from a lawn mower. A top speed of about 65mph, 0-65 in about 3 days, and all the passenger protection of a child’s lunch box🧃. But apart from these minor defects it was very popular with families on low incomes as it could be driven on a motor bike license, and was economical. Just a bit odd to look at, as the speed wobble on Motorways was quite alarming. I did see a coach load of Rugby player pick one up a put it upside down on top of a Bus shelter at a Motorway Service station. 🤣🤣 . The clip is well worth a watch as it very funny, highlighting the poor stability of a 3 wheel car! 😂🤣🤣
Imagine for a moment you had a 18 years old boy who was forcefully send to a war that No argie wanted to fight, but the Primera Junta declared anyways, then being lied by your own goverment saying the war was doing well and thinking your son was ok, finding out later on that he was K.I.A. a long time ago and have your family basically destroyed. Just to, years later have a couple of old men come and shoot in the same location a LOT of young boys just like that son fought and died, while running a sight joke about it for their viewers at home, imagine all that and tell me if you won't think at least for a moment in throwing that rock? Now, I don't think it's right, but it is what it is.
They did a similar dare with driving through the southern states of America with slogans painted on sides of their crs promoting Man Love and Country Music Sucks. They escaped a bunch of good ol boys just.
Ok so, this is what I objectively think happened (fyi I'm a hardcore Top Gear / Grand Tour fanboy, I'd follow Clarkson to war if he asked me to): They didn't buy those cars and then change the plates to the controversial ones because they proved those cars had those plates since the 80's. They did the opposite, they went directly for the plates. I guess they had a list of a bunch of number plates that could be a reference to the Falklands (we saw those 3, there must be hundreds of combinations that could work just the same) and looked for 3 that had decently interesting cars attached to them. For as much as I love them, I could believe it was a coincidence if it was just one plate, but out of the million cars they could have chosen, 3 out of 3 with a Falkland reference just as they went to Argentina is too much to be just that. Bad taste or not is debatable, regardless, shameful reaction by those people. And even worse the request for apologies by the argentinian ambassador.
I don't know the entire context of that show, but I know for fact that Argentinians take the Falklands, or Malvinas as are called in Spanish, as a national pride thing. I've a couple of times in Argentina and the Malvinas subject is a serious thing. I know the went to war against the UK, and almost won, bit didn't, and a big portion of Argentinians think Malvinas are Argentinian, and want the Malvinas to be a part of their country. But again, I don't know what happened before this, if they say something that offended Argentinians or something like that.
The issue as well was that some of the "veterans" were way too young to actually have been there during the falklands they were just wanting a fight! the argentine ambassador went to the BBC demanding an apology from them and fair play to the BBC they refused.
I feel like after being attacked and potentially almost killed, the crew/BBC are not the ones who need to apologise
The BBC only toughed it out because Argentina is basically a "white" country. Had it been an African,Asian or Arab country the BBC would've caved in before tea time, so don't make out like the BBC have balls or morals.
typical foolish comment..........veterans are not only stakeholders in a war....there are spouses, fatherless children, affected family members
@@tutotutot5193 Mate they started all of this by getting angry at a damned licence plate, connecting non existent dots with imaginary lines.
@@astoraan6071 no bro you guys have amazing double standards that boaders foolishness. check 1992 fiorentina football club away shirt and why it was banned. Europeans do this to check the waters like hiking in north korea
The plate was H82 FKL. The BBC said that was the plate on the car when they bought it and provided the registration history.
The loose reference was H for Colonel H Jones who was a British Paratroop officer killed in the war and awarded the VC for bravery.
The 82 was for the year of the war - 1982 and the FKL for Falklands.
Fun fact - the Falklands have never belonged to Argentina and were not taken from them by Britain.
Argentina invaded thinking that Britain would do nothing about it and it would be popular with Argentinian voters.
They didn’t reckon on Margaret Thatcher who sent a full on military taskforce down there to get them back.
Argentina was defeated and they haven’t been back since.
the iron lady may be a controversial figure within the uk, but she took sh"t from nobody and even had a stern word with reagan about the recon planes he was sending over to give the argentinian army intel on the task force.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr unfairly so as I've learnt a few years ago, although trying to find articles on her nowadays (before search engines got political) it was easy to find articles even from people who weren't fans talk about how terrible the UK was doing in the 70s which even Labour admitted to, how the UK needed an IMF bailout, how all but a few (miners obviously, but not all miners) businesses were privatised easily and smoothly and went from in the red (a drain on the rest of the UK) to in the black and paying taxes. And since businesses were customer first then waiting lists disappeared overnight (BT), the constant repairs disappeared (which got employees more work) and prices came way down, and quality up. And there's a lot to say, the riots had started under Labour, coal and energy were so expensive the poor suffered (cheaper to get coal from Australia than the UK) inflation destroyed people's savings, which lead to rolling brownouts and 3 day work and school weeks. I've seen so many people complain "she took school kids milk away", yeah but she got parents back to work, kids back to school, and electric 7 days a week. And that's why she was voted in 3 times, people loved her. But many have rewritten the past.
@@nicosmind3 I agree, a lot of peopele cant look past their political leanings and forget that she did some damn amazing work. no one is perfect, but she really did her best for the country.
"Fun fact" as if it is that easy to determine the ownership of the Islands..
@@nicosmind3 Just as you have done, rewriting the past indeed. I'm guessing you were one of the lucky few foreign billionaires who were able to buy the majority of the shares in our national assets for a song, while any Brit who wanted shares was limited to a few hundred and had to pay top dollar. The prices that you mentioned, went up not down, there was a public outcry at the amount of profits that were being drained from the economy and straight into foreign based company accounts without any taxes being paid at all. The Tory response was typical, they used the billions the country received from the sell-offs to buy the next 2 elections by lowering taxes for all, which, as any economist will tell you, benefits the wealthy more than the poor. They also closed down the mines, shipyards and hundreds of ancilliary companies, making millions of people unemployed in the most deprived areas of the UK. They promised cleaner, higher paying, high-tech jobs, which duly arrived, but they arrived in London and the South East, whilst the majority of deprived areas of the country received nothing but abuse and name-calling from the Tory gutter-press, all because they were unemployed, through no fault of their own. Margaret Thatcher was indeed a divisive figure, she was hated most for the deliberate dismantling of our manufacturing industries and the sale of our profitable national assets, but she did one good thing, as far as I am concerned, she assembled and sent the task force to take back the Falklands.
Such an American response saying you hope the whole crew had guns
exactly. if the mob had thought that these brits were carrying weapons then im sure things would of gotten a lot more violent.
@@Matt09pearce Yes this sentencs was just ridiculous.
I noticed that too. If the people had guns, they wouldn't have been using eggs or rocks. It does offer insight into the American mentality on gun ownership.
No this is BS, in this situation I'd want a gun. I'd rather shoot it out than feel this sort of helpless against a mob.
And im NOT American.
@@Andrew_J_R he meant the crew in the cars m8, not the argentinians throwing stuff.
The Falklands war kicked off because, at the time, Argentina was ruled by a very unpopular Military Junta, who decided to divert attention away from their failing policies towards a national war cry to retake the Falklands from the British. The Falklands did once belong to Argentina, well they did station some troops there for a few years, but abandoned it. So the British moved in unopposed, and colonised it, mainly for the whaling industry. When the Argentines invaded there was a sizable population of mainly British descent, and a Governors' residence defended by about a dozen British soldiers.
The Falklands have never actually been ruled by Argentina! In reality the Falklands were under British rule before there even was an Argentina. The people of Argentina have essentially been sold the lie that at some point the Falklands were part of Argentina, that simple isn’t true, the islands at one point were Spanish but never Argentinian.
Back then i was a member of a forum which is no longer active and was following the production side of Top Gear episodes. People there would post everything they would become witness to when the guys were filming. And then came the videos for the Patagonia special. People were generally excited, since it's not everyday that the most successful and famous TV show in history, visits your country and were sharing short snippets and selfies they took with the guys and/or the cars. But one night a dude started talking about a mob organizing and everyone was puzzled. Few more people came up with videos of crowd gathering to protest to Top Gearl in some city called Rio Grande (hadn't heard about it back then). Some people in the video had pike axes and some, get that - to protest against a TV SHOW - MOLOTOV COCKTAILS. So yeah, the crew made a very VERY good decision to go for the river crossing.
As to why this happened - well this is what blind patriotism and ignorance give birth to. The stunt they pulled in Vietnam with the American bike, blasting "Born In The USA" was the biggest and most daring one they've ever pulled, but even so people were like "oh you brits and your sense of humor..." and nobody got hurt. They paid proper respect to the war with the pieces about the deaf guy on the beach, writing about the B52 bombers in the sand and The Citadel. It's moronic to truly judge people solely on their nationality. Nothing wrong with a bit of fun and joking around on stereotypes as long as you judge the person for his personality and not his race or nationality. I mean i often joke about you, the Americans with guns and stuff, but when i meet one here i never start searching him for weapons or ask him if he would invade my kitchen for my oil. People just have to not forget that there is a difference between on country's government and its people.
"People just have to not forget that there is a difference between on country's government and its people" thats incorrect
To be fair "Born in the USA" is a song about how Americans had no fucking business being in Vietnam in the first place.
@@genaromicol7347 in what way?
I am a Canadian, and early in the trump presidency I was visiting my sister who lives with her family in Missouri. One day i went to the local Best Buy and picked up a couple movies that weren't released on 4k in Canada, and when I went to do a price match with Amazon the store manager noticed my amazon shipping address was in Canada. All of a sudden things got very hostile, other employees were called over and I got a lecture about how Canada is an enemy of the US because of unfair trade practices. I was told in no uncertain terms that I should go back to Canada and shop at a Best Buy there. This is between Americans and a Canadian, completely unhinged and with no basis whatsoever. Imagine you fight a war and lots of soldiers die, how easy it would be for nationalists to go overboard.
that as a Brit who has lived elsewhere (aus and jap) is mad ....but now as a brit it is probably worse now after brexshit
Like Clarkson said in Alabama, they mate with vegetables down there.
@@zepo82 yeah man, Austrailia and Japan are really gonna care that we left the EU, all of that increased trade from us is gonna make them really mad 🙄
@@Nagrom what increased trade?
@@Nagrom the only Australians mad about Brexit are the ones holding a British passport.
Take a look at the Vietnam special, it was hilarious.
(Especially the safety wear that James and Jeremy were given to wear!)
Note how they didn't reject the escaped Nazis from WWII...yet they ban Clarkson and Top Gear...
America took in escaped Nazis and also provided Nazi scientists, engineers, weapon designers, doctors in and gave them citizenship, NASA was essentially built up of Nazi scientists. What's your point?
You mean the american government right?
@@alfioplays7443 pretty even split scientists aside
I mean the Falklands residents voted to be british and the Argentine Gov still doesnt like it
@@alfioplays7443 Most of the Nazis escaping from Germany post war headed for South America, mostly Argentina. American only selected a few selected scientists for the things like the Paperclip project.
Just some context for you: Clarkson's number plate was something like H982FKL, which the Argentinians interpreted as 1982 Falklands as if Clarkson was mocking the Falklands war of 1982, where the Argentinians invaded the Falkland islands (which they had never previously owned) and claimed they should be Argentinian because they are on the same Tectonic plate... They eventually lost the war and the Falkland islands voted to stay British by overwhelming majority, but the war cost many needless deaths on both sides, especially the sinking of the Argentine destroyer, the Belgrano. The Argentine dictator at the time in reality used the invasion as a distraction from the terrible Argentine economy at the time in hopes of gaining some support from the general population, which worked to an extent. To this day, many Argentinians still believe that these islands are rightfully theirs, and many still hate the British for winning the war. In reality, the Spanish/French have a more substantial claim to them than the Argentinians, but that's by the by. Ironically, the number plate was an absolute coincidence according to James May, who in an interview said it was one of two Porches of that model/year in the UK at the time, and the only manual IIRC, which is what Jeremy preferred and hence bought that vehicle.
Cheers for the video, more TG please if possible!
Clarkson, a vile man, racist and bully, finally got what was coming to him
@@no-oneinparticular7264 totally agree. they went to provoke, then cried when their actions provoked. i can't see the appeal of these arseholes
I finally know what the falklands war is 🙏
I worked with an Argentinian in the oilfields of Alberta..He Told me In 79 he was 17 years old and had just joined a union, general Pinocette and the Army had taken over and had bad all union members arrested calling them communists. My friend Oscar said he knew fk. all about politics he was just a 17 year old apprentice. but he still spent four and a half years in an Argentinian concentration camp.The prisoners weren't water boarded , no, in the basement there was an old bath tub full of human shit that they were held under in. He was deaf in one ear as one time he was tied to a chair and a guard kept slapping him up the side of his head till his ear drum burst.Another time he was beaten so badly he couldn't even stand for 3 days and was nursed by other prisoners. This was at the same time the Argentinian army was disappearing people But as I was an ex British soldier we'd still argue who owned the Falklands /Malvinas.
What I will say is that Clarkson is kind of well known throughout his career for needling peoples about British victories including the Falklands and as many know throughout TG he has made many borderline xenophobic rants about many cultures. That doesn't excuse this utterly dangerous behaviour by the vets but it does also help to understand why people often have violent reactions towards him as a person.
galtieri invaded the falklands In the late 70s/early 80s to get away from the fact that he was becoming unpopular, and to win the falklands from us, and we kicked their arses, it was a silly war, and lots of good men on both sides were lost.
There’s a Welsh settlement in Patagonia with several thousand people. They speak Welsh and Spanish. Trouble is, Jezza’s never been kind to the Welsh either.
Thats class!
Isn't it
You should watch Jeremy Clarkson's documentary about the St. Nazaire comando raid in WW2. Brilliant documentary. 👏
This, it's quite long but very worth it and it would make an epic film.
Victoria Corren one first. Most reactions I've seen each are split in two.
Jez as an actual film maker is underated, but that where he started...still a tit :D
Agree completely, I have watched it several times and learn a bit more every time
Agree one of the best documentaries I have ever watched
I noticed when watching this again here now, that some of the "angry mob" had stated in police presence that more angry mob were on the way, and threats of violence but the police didn't actually do anything except basically reiterate that they had to GTFO.
And it appeared, to me at least, that it was the police supposedly escorting the crew who seemed to be the ones who gave the order to stop the convoy for an attack, but instead the crew were telling each other to keep the convoy rolling. And the increasing angry mob were waiting ahead. So they knew what route they were being taken. It makes it seem like even more corruption really, the behaviour of the supposed law enforcement.
anyway, this whole thing, whether a car with a certain reg plate was deliberately sought, or found through happenstance and bought through 'mischief'/provocation, it was dumb, but it absolutely does not in ANY way condone the violent attacks, the damage to people at the time physical and mentally traumatic, and I would imagine for some there's a level of PTSD or related in terms of long term injury, property damage, the behaviour of the actual people there was abhorrent
Nah, the police were actually great with them, but they said they could essentially only protect them so much because there were far more of the mob than them, and they weren’t willing to risk their lives in potentially violently putting down the protest. They did their best tbh.
The mob knew the route because it was the main route to the border, because it was seen as the safest route and the one the police could kinda protect to a degree.
The registration plate was a genuine coincidence but obviously because of their past history people didn’t believe it unfortunately.
This was one scary episode to watch I honestly thought the three were in the convoy originally but even though they weren't the crew were treated as though Jeremy Richard and James were there, how close they came to serious injury is insane. I love the episode where they crate a rocket powered mini to go down a ski slope well worth a watch also the episode for amazon where they have to capture specific animals including a hippo all done in Colombia meaning Pablo escobars land has to come in to it as he had the only hippos in the country and they still live there. Also any episode they did where they drove on the worlds most dangerous road in semis
My dad was recalled to train the troops for the Falklands war in survival tactics. This is from when he was in Burma in the second world war. He was recalled in total four times to teach troops how to survive. Makes me very proud. I miss you dad
Why would jungle survival be needed on a half frozen rock like the Falklands?
@@imperialdebauchery5988 how to trap animals. How to avoid traps. How to build shelters. How to move quietly. How to hide. Should I go on.....
People died and seriously injured over fk all.. but politics.... won out of nationalism.
Thatcher attacked when Argentina's were outside the exclusion zone and were ready to talk.
Calling the embassy before leaving the hotel is something that you can say that they should have done in hindsight, but at the time the problem was just with one group of veterans in the south of the country. it was not until they were near the place where they entered Argentina that they learned about the 300 car mob ahead of them, and that group of veterans were demanding that the crew left, so leaving without calling an embassy (bearing in mind the time scale they had to work with (dictated by the veterans, i.e. "there would be violence if we weren't gone in three")) was actually a sensible thing to do as if any of them took the time to call an embassy they would have missed the 3 hour deadline, and people would have gotten hurt and potentially killed.
They did of course call the Embassy, and like you said, the Embassy told them to GTFO because there was nothing they could do in three hours. Clarkson, Hammond and May were snuck out of Tierra del Fuego in the boots of cars, and iirc the British government chartered a special flight out of Ushuaia for them and the female crew to Buenos Aries, after hours of negotiation with the Argentinian govt. They then flew from there to the Falklands where the British Army picked them up to take them home. All this only worked because the Mob thought the three had left in the convoy, and Top Gear was able to rely on some favours from mates in the military (that they’d made over years of doing stunts and films with them) and government.
Madness!
They did a Middle East Special to follow the journey of the three wise men. They were denied entry to Iraq. You definitely need to watch whole episodes
They started in Iraq, the tried to cross into Iran but were denied entry because Iran has banned the BBC. The spookiest thing about that special is them driving through Syria just 10 weeks before the Syrian civil war started. It's like a time capsule of a place doesn't exist anymore.
@@SadPeterPan1977 they drove past Palmyra but didn't stop . And made a joke. Sadly most of Palmyra has been blown up now.
I think you guys should make it your mission to watch the Too Gear Road Trip Specials, they go all over the world on driving adventures, I think you’ll both love it! 👌👍
Clarkson, a vile man, racist and bully, finally got what was coming to him
You definitely should
note how Clarkson said "they" instead of "we" indicating the trio had already fled Argentina prior to the attack.
they actually did, for safety reasons Clarkson Hammond and May along with all the female staff boarded a plane back to Buenos Aires
Guns? They’re British.
We use throwing knives instead of artillery.
we kicked their arses out of the Falklands in 1982... when they invaded saying the islands belong to them... the island were inhabited by British citizens so of course we went to defend them.... sod all there apart from some farmland and five species of penguins.... i have a feeling they think there is oil
For anyone who doesnt know
1982. Falklands War happened UK V Argentina with the brits winning. Argentina have since said the islands are theres. The riots started because of Jeremys Plates. They came with the car when they came out the factory. I beleive it was H982FKL.
Basically Argentina wanted the Falkland Islands right after the British found lots of oil around the islands. And they tried to take it by force but got spanked. Even though they got spanked the Argentina government told its citizens that they were winning the war when in reality they were getting spanked. This caused outrage and upset as soon as the war was over and the British had won.
They've assumed oil since the 1950's and it was 1998 before any exploratory drilling occurred.
The Falklands war was a desperate dictator seeking an easy target to offset chaos in his own country, they assumed the UK wouldn't fight for it, even the USA asked us to give it them - Galtieri was an American creation in their drugs war, if we had surrendered the Falklands every contested island and British territory would have been in danger...
Actually the ones that took it by force where the british..how come is alright for a country to claim an island so far away from it's country?
@@alfioplays7443 That's what the Brits have been doing for centuries. As if it's their god given right.
@@alfioplays7443 Took it from who?
@@achloist, Britophobes are best ignored. Usually found in grotty parts of Glasgow or Belfast.
You should have held back a couple of weeks with this one. It's the 40th anniversary of the end of The Falklands War on 14th June.
A quick history of the conflict. The Argentinians have long claimed they own the islands despite the fact the British have been settled there since before Argentina existed as a sovereign nation.
On April 2nd 1982 the Argentine army invaded and and after spirited resistance from the around 70 Marines stationed there they were able to capture the island. Later also taking South Georgia.
Margaret Thatcher then PM ordered that the islands be retaken. A not inconsiderable feat when you consider the 8,000 mile distance between the two sides.
There are a couple of interesting SAS, and SBS (Special Boat Service - they do everything the SAS does, but in flippers) stories you might want to check out. Our boys in black were out there, and in Argentina conducting operations.
The most controversial moment of the war was the sinking of the Argentine ship, The General Belgrano. Sunk outside the exclusion zone but it was acknowledged as being justified in the end. You boys might better know the ship as the USS Phoenix. One of the ships to survive the attack at Pearl Harbour.
It's also the only ship to have been sunk by a nuclear submarine, Conqueror. Who sailed back into port flying the Jolly Roger as is traditional.
A British ship, HMS Sheffield was also sunk, struck by Argentine missiles. There's a RUclipsr by the name of Jeff Taylor who I believe was on board it.
It's also where we first saw Harrier Jump Jets in action for the first time. You kind fellas gave us some nice Sidewinder missiles for their pilots to play with.
Ultimately the British landed a force on the island. Men of the 2nd Parachute Regiment and Royal Marines "yomped" across 56 miles of rough terrain, carrying 80lb packs in 3 days. Their helicopters had been on board another ship sunk.
The Battle of Goose Green lasted a day and night with the British capturing quite a number of Argentine soldiers. During the fight the commanding officer of 2 Para, a Lt Colonel was killed whilst charging a machine gun. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
The capital Stanley was eventually surrounded, a ceasefire called, and a surrender arranged 2 April - 14th June 1982.
Margaret Thatcher won her next election on the strength of winning the war.
You make that evil witch sound like such a hero 😒
RAF had flown the Harrier since 1969, and the USMC bought them from 1971 to 1976…Way before the Falklands…and they didn’t turn it supersonic…
@@Kazza_8240 Margaret Thatcher. The best prime minister England has ever had. Taught scargill and those scum bag miners a lesson as well. 3 cheers for Maggie. Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY.
@@badrobot3159 Such obvious trolling 2 out of 10.
@@badrobot3159 I'm going to have to quote Limmy here - ' *honk if Thatcher's deid* 🤣📢📢
Ding dong that wicked old witch is dead! 🧙🏼♀️
Fk the Torys 😃🏴
Long ago I used to work in Spain and I met many American citizens and most of the backpackers had a Canadian flag on their packs, when asked they told me they got less hassle displaying a Maple Leaf then Stars and Stripes.
Uniformed and Angry is a very deadly thing to be up against. I'd say 90+% of these people wasn't told the whole facts and as it passed down from idiot to idiot it got less and less further from the truth.
I used to love Top Gear before the new guys took over.
Me too
I don't mind the cricket lad but Paddy "I can't communicate without shouting" Mcguinness and Chris "I take myself far too seriously" Harris I can take or leave. For proper car stuff I go straight to the Harrys Garage and Tyrells Classic Workshop youtube channels
Clarkson, a vile man, racist and bully, finally got what was coming to him
They should have ended the show when Clarkson etc left. There was no way they'd recreate or better it, especially not by finding a few random unfunny men who have no chemistry. The whole point of Top Gear was for the jokes, the pranks, the journeys, the chemistry etc. No-one cares how much horsepower the latest Ford Focus has, we want to see those guys falling over and breaking stuff.
Yeah Paddy McGuinness is a joke.
@Embrace The Suck 21 - What this clip doesn't show is that one of the Production Crew members was female and between the ages of 13 and 16 years old. She was traveling in one of the convoy cars. Can you imagine how terrified she must have been? (This was spoken about in an interview with Jeremy Clarkson, a short time after the whole ordeal).
Then she was employed illegally so I doubt this story is true.
If only the Argies had that much fight in falklands. Might of had a little more of a chance 😂
egg-zak-lee
cowardly Argies
The odds weren't quite so good for them back then, but anything more than 100:1 and they start to get a bit gobby
If the british had not asked the yankees for the sidewinders..it would be another story..but this is what thieves and pirates do..
@@alfioplays7443 - If the Argentinians hadn't asked America, Britain and France for fleets of warships, aircraft and missile systems...
"Thieves and pirates"? Can I take this opportunity to remind you that no indigenous population was genocided or disenfranchised by the first British settlers on the Falklands - and that Paulo and Jose are NOT traditional Aztec/Inca/Mayan names.
What a stupid comment, they fought and died, as did ours, and they all deserve respect.
"At what point do you get the embassy involved".. i nearly died laughing...do you ever leave your bedroom....
they would do absolutely ZERO ... !
Hahahaha
I know alot of americans in foreign countrys say they're canadians
You have to factor in the footie too, it's been tasty to say the least between the two national sides for over 5 decades
It's even a British football chant
The Falklands is ours
The Falklands is ours
Fck off you Argies
The Falklands is ours
They play rugby as well. Interesting they play our sports if they arent fans of us
@@samuelpinder1215 They're better at footie than rugby to be fair.
@@Si_Mondo they're not a bad rugby team. They're tier 1 I believe
@@samuelpinder1215 sports in argentina in general were introduced by brits
This is the rioters logic, attacking the iron lady didn't work so let's attack these random people with a funny looking license plate
Guns? We're British. We used guns in 1982, get with the program Argies. A few of my friends fought over there. Whatever happened to irony? Aren't we mates now?
Here's a depressing comparison: in 1945, the USA dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan. Forty years later, they were the closest economic & military partners; the same for Britain and Germany.
In 2022, 40 years after the 72-day conflict, Argentina riffs-on like a victim.; democracy was returned to that country, immediately after their defeat... Britain: "Your Welcome"!
You're :D
@@maj0ki87 Thank you (most embarrassed!).
@@danielw5850 jaja Just kidding. Greetings from Argentina!
democracy is shit
I am sure you will learn more about the Falklands and what it meant to each country but don’t forget the golden hand of Maradona at the world cup! Enough to start a war if you are and England fan!
They didn't seem to mind when oasis played at River plate
there are people who hate us but then they are a fan of messi, it has nothing to do
Argentina think the Falkland Islands are theirs because they're close by but the people who live there voted overwhelmingly to stay British. The Argentinians invaded it in 1982 to reclaim it but lost and it remains a sticking point for them. Jeremy used a number plate which directly referenced the war and further antagonised the fierce nationalists and veterans, especially in that part of Argentina. Very far south, near the South Pole, not far from where the Falklands are. Tierra del Fuego, the "Land of Fire", is the closest land to the Falklands and so the connection with that area and the war is strong.
Imagine Japan invades Hawaii, claiming it to be theirs but you win the war and the Hawaiians vote to remain American by like 95% majority and then you guys going to Japan to film a global TV show. The likelihood is that you would not be welcomed by those who fought in the war, those who were injured or those who lost family members in it.
Except he didn't 'use a number that referenced the war', it was the plate that had been on that car since it was newly registered in 1991. Easily verified in the UK on the government's own DVLA website.
false , England invaded the islands in 1883 , kicked out Vernet and the people, even the british know the falklands were from argentina , the labourist goverment in the 60s for example , the hipocresy about the referendum is so funny, the donbass and crimea are actually russian ?
Through that logic I should start hate groups against 60% of the world. As you know England was at the forefront of being d$cks and invading other countries only for them to revoult/vote to leave. Think if a couple of Americans came over in a pick-up with the date of when they kicked the British out (insert date here pls), I really don't think you would get that level of organised hate towards them
@@johnj3577 and purchased because of the number plate, nothing else 😄 🤣 😂
@@snick260 Correct. Anyone that thinks Clarkson didn't know about it either knows nothing about Clarkson, or is extremely naive.
Jeremy Clarksons Licence Plate had FLK982 on it which people thought was Falklands 1982 when the UK kicked Argentina off the Falklands.
Maybe watch Mini Histories Falklands War and see how bad things got. The biggest loss of life on the Argentina side was when we sunk one of their ships and it killed over 300. To be clear Top Gear where going through were most of those sailors came from. We sunk it before it sunk one of ours. Many Royal Navy Ships did get sunk btw.
The Argentinian vessel in question I believe was the Prinz Eugen but renamed. Fitting that the WW2 ship that escorted the Bismarck to it's final voyage should be sunk by the British.
@@jimmyfiddlesticks337 the ARA General Belgrano was originally the USS Phoenix which was based at Pearl Harbour and saw the incoming Japanese Planes during that raid.
@@camerondanielsmusic I realised my mistake but I couldn't edit my comment.
The Argentinians claim the Falklands although they have not settled there. The Falklands is inhabited by people who are descendants of British settlers who wanted the islands to remain British. There’s been a referendum.
There’s was an invasion in 1982. General Galtieri wasn’t doing too well in the opinion polls and needed a diversion. Invading The Falklands was it. Nobody imagined that the UK would do anything about it, the Falklands being an insignificant group of islands in the middle of nowhere with no assets. There was talk of removing its regular supply ship due to the cost. Trouble was Margaret Thatcher was then PM. For all her faults, she was the PM for this job. Three days after the invasion, a task force was dispatched to take the Falklands back. That was a miracle in itself. No other country would help although Ronald Reagan allowed the use of transport hubs. The war lasted 74 days.
255 British were killed, 775 wounded, 115 captured
649 Argentinians were killed, 1,657 wounded, 11,313 captured. They surrendered.
3 Falkland Islanders died.
The war is famous for:
The troop transport being destroyed, so the troops yomped from one side of East island to the other carrying all their kit before any fighting started. That’s 56 miles.
UK Ships lost - 2 destroyers; 2 frigates; 1 landing ship; 1 landing craft; 1 container ship; 24 helicopters; 10 fighters.
Colonel H Jones’ attack on an Argentine position. He died. He was awarded a Victoria Cross.
The French supplied Argentina with Exocet missiles that sunk British ships. The French President declared an embargo on supplying Argentina with weapons but the French suppliers aided the Argentinians after the embargo was in place and helped to repair three launch sites that hadn’t worked before. Recently, it’s come to light that the French had kill switches built into the Exocet missiles ie the French could have given the British the codes to disarm their Exocets in Argentinian hands but chose to preserve their arms industry at a cost of over 80 British lives (who’s going to buy French weapons if the French can switch them off?).
The sinking of the General Belgrano - previously the USS Phoenix sold to Argentina. There was an exclusion zone set up but the General Belgrano was heading towards it. It was sunk by a British submarine.That was controversial as the ship was outside the exclusion zone and 323 people died. Some consider it war crime.
Penguins - everywhere on all the tv footage of yomping soldiers.
There’s no love lost still between the Argentinians and the British as you can see from World Cup football matches. Maradona confessed to cheating in the 1986 quarter finals against England by manhandling the ball into the net like a basketball. Hand ball not football. They won.
It’s the 40th anniversary of the war next month.
There’s talk of oil finds near the Falklands …
Well said. But you forgot the Vulcan raid. The furthest successful bombing mission ever carried out by any country in history, and since. Travelling from the UK and back, destroying an airport that fell into Argentine hands. There’s a video of it on RUclips.
The captain of the Belgrano himself said in an interview that he hates the fact there's a controversy around the sinking, that they were a legitimate target because they would have attacked any British ship they found and that to claim they weren't a threat dishonours the memory of the crew who died.
@@xeniakucher7721 do you have you got a link to where he said this?
@@fortuna1232 It was in 2009 he made that statement, 2 years before he died, that the sinking of the Belgrano was a legitimate act of war,, he explained that he was moving away from the British excursion zone for tactical reasons only when he was hit, not leaving the battle zone, and with 2 destroyers, the orders he was under was to attack the British ships in the following days, all 3 ships were armed with deadly Exocet missiles, and his mission was to get within range of the British ships, along with the Argentina Air Force causing a distraction, and use those weapons, now that was one hell of a threat, and been thousands of miles from home the British would be put into very vulnerable position if they lost any ships, as replacements would be out of the question, so it was of upmost importance to get rid of that deadly threat at the first opportunity!
las islas malvinas fueron parte del imperio español , cosa que fue reconocida por inglaterra. El territorio fue heredaro de los españoles en su totalidad y cuando in pais se descoloniza hereda todo el territorio quw era del anterior pais, entonces¿ porque inglaterra ño reconocio antes como.parte del imperio español para despues desdecirse? En cuanto al referendum es muy similar al.caso de crimea y rusia, que desplazo a la poblacion autoctona del lugar, reemplazandolos con personas de descendencia rusa, claramente para tener una mayoria a su favor. Los ingleses expulsaro a la poblacion argentina que ya habitaba las islas para poner ingleses. Un referendum, para que tenga validez,tiene que ser bajo supervision de naciones unidas y jamas es un medio valido.para resolver un conflicto territorial.
Tierra del Fuego was where the General Belgrano sailed from on it's last voyage, it was torpedoed and sunk a few days later by a British submarine with the loss of over 300 crew, which goes a long way to explaining the animosity against the Top Gear crew.
The thing is the Falkland islands have pretty much always been British, everybody there wants to be seen as British. The anger about that in Argentina doesn't make any sense
This is sad 😔
After they abandoned the three cars, the Argentinean government seized them and later all three of the cars were destroyed to prevent further attacks
We british were the first to find the fawklands and draw it up on a map there was back and forth for roughly 200 years and finally in 1982 we were outnumbered as we always are and we obliterated them and took the fawklands and I don't know when exactly but in about 2016 there was a vote for the natives and they voted 98 percent in favour of being under british rule.. and the Argentines are salty af cos they thought we are small and weak in modern times... but they forgot yeh we are small but we are the most ruthless and highly trained soldiers in the world as SAS raids cleared 60 percent of the potential battles
Falkland is Argentinian, the uk pirates packed it up with brits and then they did the referendum, but Falkland is been always Argentinian, the uk pirates always stealing oil and other resources from other countries..., fuking uk give Gibraltar back also!
@@illustratorkarina923 we were the ones who it on the map.. we named it first and stuck it on the world map so it is ours our people have lived there since its discovery before Argentinians even knew it existed
Imagine getting that angry over a numberplate.
Not a great advert for the Argentinian tourist industry.
Since this was a BBC show they wouldn't be armed, unless they had a private security company who had authorisation to carry protection.
Watch Operation Black Buck, when the RAF sent a Lone Vulcan bomber 6000 miles and 6000 back to Bomb Stanley airfield in the Falklands.cheers lads.
I remember watching this episode when it aired and it was intense! It's a little different watching again knowing that they're OK but at the time i think i folded the cushion under my ass 3-4 times - with my cheeks - before this episode ended!
💀WHO SAYS THAT lmao
@@ok9908 I do, it seems
The issue is that in 1982 Thatcher sent an Avro Fulcan bomber plane to take out the runway to prevent any flights from Argentinians who wanted to claim the Falkland Islands as theirs. They actually had to refuel 13 times mid-air in getting the (soon to be destroyed Vulcan bombers) across an 8 hour flights. They couldn't use an aircraft carrier because the Vulcan's wing span was too great, at 99 feet long. Scary plane, was carrying 21 bombs. They actually didnt have enough fuel to finish the mission and were told to head back, abort mission. The crew (of the 2nd vulcan, the first one developed a problem and couldnt complete so the remaining one had to do it alone). They didn't know if they would have to eject and abandon the plane over the south pacific. Refuelling mid air in those bombers hadn't been practiced since 60s. The vulcan also, by the way was the plane that caused the USA to rethink their claims that their security defences were the best in the world.
Basically boys 1982 the Argentine invaded the Falklands island a British dependency island so we British sent down a task force Margret Thatcher government to kick the Argentines out resulting in a war Argentines lost ships aircraft and soldiers as did the British the Argentines considers the Falklands island ( the Malvinas ) belong to them historical but it was in British hands before Argentina became a country do yeah it's still a very touchy subject down there
Interesting how they make it appear the 3 were at as much risk as any of the crew in the convoy when according to an interview with James shortly after this was first broadcast the 3 and the female crew members were smuggled out to the airport before any of the crew left. It's also worth noting the size of their crew, many folk seem to believe it really is only the 3 of them with one cameraman whenever they are out and about.
Because they thought the 3 of them were the targets.
It wasn't apparent until well into the evacuation that the cars were the target.
Classic Top Gear: “we didn’t do nuffink, guv”
I think the crux of this was the number plate on one of the cars was offensive. They said it was coincidence but I'm sure it wasn't.
Vinieron a picantear and then they pissed their pants. They deserved it.
I highly recommend the ‘Top Gear chilli driving challenge’. It’s the new crew but it’s still hilarious, I was crying laughing
Yes yes yes guys this is what I was waiting for bring it on
I still don’t believe the plate on the Porsche was intentional. Clarkson had his own personal reasons for picking the Porsche to celebrate the V8, and TG has always been too respectful of war veterans to make fun of soldiers that fought them.
It wasn't, that plate had been on that car since 1991. And JC loves the 928 because one got him up to Darlington from London fast enough to see his Dad before he passed away.
You're extremely gullible. The number plate may have been genuine, but Clarkson being Clarkson definitely bought it because of the number plate, knowing it would cause a stir. Do you even know Clarkson at all? Unfortunately for him he got a bit more than he bargained for.
I would love to see you guys do more top gear specials and challenges. I know it’s difficult because of copyright but maybe now Top gear and The Grand Tour are basically over the video might not get blocked.
please, read books. don't say bullshit. you dont know nothing about this conflict. you talk about this because the air is free. we are a country open to the world, to every person who wants to be here, but we dont like empires like gb or usa GOVERMENTS. Yes, goverments. I love anglo culture in many aspects, and that culture was maid by real men and women. You are welcome guys. if you come to Argentina, you're gonna live a unique experience, really. sorry, my english is not good. the best for you guys!!
A huge war over the Falkland Islands . After heavy fighting the Argentina’s lost,there’s still a lot of animosity !!!
I’d pay good money to watch you react to the top gear specials or grand tour - elite tv
Can you watch the Bolivian Death Road next please. Terrifying.
The specials are amazing, and could be the next candidate to react to after you finish Idiot abroad
I remember they had a license plate on one of the cars that read something like Falklands 82. It didn’t go down well with the locals
🤣😂🤣
H982 FKL
Truth hurts
Clarkson, a vile man, racist and bully, finally got what was coming to him
And Clarkson still says it was accidental…
topgear and their amazon thing was gold for 19 years
clarksons licence plate number was FKL 82 ie falklands 1982 when and where the conflict was
H982 FKL.
His registration was H982 FKL. The year of the Falklands War was in 1982.
H982 FKL.
@@RWL2012 Sorry about that that was obviously wrong don't know why I put that I thought I checked it first thank you
The Argies were a little upset that we sank their Battleship, Corporal Belgrano. 🇬🇧
as the famous Millwall song goes. "No one likes us, we dont care"
Kudos to the guy asking the argies for a brass @ 06:48.
Jeremy did upset them with his registration plate 😂😂
I hope the British Government lodged a formal protest ... since I am assuming that the crew had legal permission and permits from Argentina to film the show. Little solace at the time of the incident but still ...
The people of the falklands wanted to remain british, argentina disagreed. The brits battered them with in the april of 1982.
Nothing to the extent of this but I have had some trouble overseas before.
a Spanish girl spat at the floor by me and said the English in a aggressive tone in Barcelona
In Icemeler Turkey 2 young men said to me as I was walking home from a bar with my partner...
The west is dead and some other stuff In Turkish probably...
even though its not even on the same scale I still felt extremely vulnerable, insulted, confused, Scared etc.
I would never dream of treating anyone like that in my own town (except the scousers lol) people are brought up and radicalised to hate.
U a manc🤢🤮? Mank by name etc
@@starmon763 I'm from South London
You f**k with the bull, you get the horn.
I know a falklands vet, their whole leg was shot para in...he hates war, but he wa there
That, dear viewer, is why the Falklands will always remain British.
Argentina are just salty they lost the war with use against the island they stole from use
“You’ll never take the Falklands” 😂
The funny thing is that i believe they said that drive through Alabama was scarier.
You should definitely watch Jeremy Clarkson's 2 documentaries, one on the Victoria cross and the other on the St. Nazaire raid, they are fairly long but excellent videos, I have seen other reactors watch them so they shouldn't get strikes.
some context, the show would travel to countries and would drive cars with something to trigger/mock the locals
... for example, they drove a car in India with a toilet on the roof, they had an episode where they made fun of Mexicans etc, etc...
so they decided to mock the Argentines by driving 3 cars thru the town where the most casualties of the war were from, with license places having:
...one reflecting the year of the war...
...the second had the number of British casualties...
...and the third had the number of Argentine casualties.
now imagine a tv show driving around Manhattan mocking the twin towers incident on 911... who are the aholes, the people reacting OR the instigators.
keep in mind the following, the Argentines don't hate the english, most people don't know this, but during the war and now, there are many english living in Argentina, even members of the royal family live there too... particularly in the area where this happened.
The show was just trying to justify their wrong doing so they wanted to paint Argentines and hate mongers etc.
Guys do you honestly think the embassies weren’t contacted on both sides of their countries; here in the UK 🇬🇧 and Argentina before embarking upon this KNOWING our history with Argentina? Of course they did. They aren’t stupid. However no matter how safe the embassies try to arrange things high risk is still involved. That’s what was shown here. Americans might think they can enter other peoples’ countries without permission and with arrogance but we Brits as non PC as a lot of us are (being a female black Brit I include myself), we don’t enter other peoples’ countries with all that crew and equipment without the country saying yes to both it’s ok and it’s safe.
After thinking about it you should really see the episode where they go up against the Australian top gear one of the best episodes ever, if you don't see it all at least watch the drag race with Richard and the van
Falklands, they said it
But most hurt are they about sinkingof The Belgrano, Argentinian cruiser that wnt down with all 800 souls aboard
(Wether she was sunk outside or inside the exclusion zone of 300 miles around the islands is up for debate)
Brits say they had the right to sink it, Argentinia says they had no right as it was (just) outside the zone
Chile are our South American brothers in arms
Wow was this not set up like every other show they did?
how did they know that they was Argentinian Veterans? as they didn't have their hands in the air or carrying white flags.
The point is most were not "veterans". If you work the time span out, 1982 to whenever this was broadcast and then add 18 years, the veterans would be about 50 years old. Most of the mob were in their 20's and 30's. As James said, the people they had encountered on their travels were perfectly charming. A trap was set in Ushuaia because of its naval connections.
I know it was a large convoy and a large gang. But I thought the police could have done more to protect them.
I highly recommend Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear look at Britains worst ever Car, the Reliant Robin, forever known as the Plastic Pig! As it was Pig ugly and made of plastic ( Glass Reinforced Plastic). Oh, and it only had 3 wheels, 🛺and an engine stolen from a lawn mower. A top speed of about 65mph, 0-65 in about 3 days, and all the passenger protection of a child’s lunch box🧃. But apart from these minor defects it was very popular with families on low incomes as it could be driven on a motor bike license, and was economical. Just a bit odd to look at, as the speed wobble on Motorways was quite alarming. I did see a coach load of Rugby player pick one up a put it upside down on top of a Bus shelter at a Motorway Service station. 🤣🤣 . The clip is well worth a watch as it very funny, highlighting the poor stability of a 3 wheel car! 😂🤣🤣
Didn’t their license plate have stuff that might’ve triggered them or something? I thought I heard that
Imagine for a moment you had a 18 years old boy who was forcefully send to a war that No argie wanted to fight, but the Primera Junta declared anyways, then being lied by your own goverment saying the war was doing well and thinking your son was ok, finding out later on that he was K.I.A. a long time ago and have your family basically destroyed. Just to, years later have a couple of old men come and shoot in the same location a LOT of young boys just like that son fought and died, while running a sight joke about it for their viewers at home, imagine all that and tell me if you won't think at least for a moment in throwing that rock?
Now, I don't think it's right, but it is what it is.
They did a similar dare with driving through the southern states of America with slogans painted on sides of their crs promoting Man Love and Country Music Sucks. They escaped a bunch of good ol boys just.
Ok so, this is what I objectively think happened (fyi I'm a hardcore Top Gear / Grand Tour fanboy, I'd follow Clarkson to war if he asked me to):
They didn't buy those cars and then change the plates to the controversial ones because they proved those cars had those plates since the 80's. They did the opposite, they went directly for the plates. I guess they had a list of a bunch of number plates that could be a reference to the Falklands (we saw those 3, there must be hundreds of combinations that could work just the same) and looked for 3 that had decently interesting cars attached to them.
For as much as I love them, I could believe it was a coincidence if it was just one plate, but out of the million cars they could have chosen, 3 out of 3 with a Falkland reference just as they went to Argentina is too much to be just that.
Bad taste or not is debatable, regardless, shameful reaction by those people. And even worse the request for apologies by the argentinian ambassador.
This one was exualy dangerous I mean old enemies showing up ..... ooooo
Check two: the Vietnam special and the ride through London.
If they put up that much of a fight in the 80s they might have taken the falklands
Margaret Thatcher was a strongly disliked prime minister, but the Falklands take-back was well supported.
I don't know the entire context of that show, but I know for fact that Argentinians take the Falklands, or Malvinas as are called in Spanish, as a national pride thing. I've a couple of times in Argentina and the Malvinas subject is a serious thing. I know the went to war against the UK, and almost won, bit didn't, and a big portion of Argentinians think Malvinas are Argentinian, and want the Malvinas to be a part of their country. But again, I don't know what happened before this, if they say something that offended Argentinians or something like that.
At first I thought Tierra del Fuego was the name of the hotel.