You'd be wrong. It's based on the Karmann Ghia floorpan and designed to look similar to the Kubelwagen but it is not a Kubelwagen and is not based on one.

Except it was 23 years late to the party

I don't know much about it other than I remember watching it race on TV, along with Martin Schanke's Xtrac Escort that could do 0-60 in about 2 secs! 1980's Rallycross was amazing with a real wide range of vehicles, until the end of Group B rallying and then those cars ended up in Rallycross.

For a moment I thought it was this 4x4 turbo'd 500bhp monster from the 80's ERC Championship

You also really need to be from North America, or New Zealand, as they made little to no impact in Europe

Lovely homophobic heckling by the Argie thugs

But then it would still be a copy. What they do now is to have a 3 way challenge with the winner going off and doing their own thing, which is a difference from the UK version.

Its a car show with three presenters...............what are you expecting them to do?

He and Andy Wilman wold their shares in the production company to the BBC, so its the rights are held by BBC Worldwide. He made around 5 million GBP.

Each episode is purely a challenge, with a car review added in there. Generally its a case of the winner gets to drive such and such a car at the end of the challenge. Its been steadily improving with some really rather excellent episodes.

I'm not personally, I think its funny, however the British media will not as they love to build people up and then destroy them once they are at the top. Anything they can use they will and this is just another piece of ammunition to destroy Clarkson.

Google Jimmy Saville or for ease, read the Wikipedia entry on Operation Yewtree

The feelings of the Burmese/Thai people were considered important enough for Clarkson to be given an alleged final warning. The country/people is not the point, the glee and malice with which the British press go after a target once they have one in their sights is the issue here. Think Nancy Grace but with a British…

That wouldn't be possible, unless the rights to the name, format etc were owned by Clarkson or an independent production company, but I believe its owned by the BBC and so they would simple try and replace him/all three and produce a sanitised version of the show.

There would be no Stig or similar character, intellectual property rights would be exercised

They could conceivably move to a new channel and country but it would have be to a new show, with a brand new format, it would no longer be Top Gear.

Doubt that would fly either, its still a BBC production.............I quite like the US version, it improved when they stopped trying to make a carbon copy of the UK show. There have been some episodes that have been better than recent UK ones.

They did lose the war however there is a large section of the British press who hate Clarkson and they will gleefully call for his sacking which will more than likely happen. The BBC are in a shit storm what with the sex abuse scandals and Clarkson's history, they will over react in an attempt to be seen as strong and…

More and more coverage of this shit is going to get the show cancelled

I seriously doubt anyone in Argentina would have made the spurious link and articles like this and the originator of the registration/Falklands reference is probably going to get Clarkson sacked and the show cancelled.