luistombo1
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Well 100% ethanol is feasible...if you live in Brasil :p

The Mazda REPU is a strong contender for the worst idea in automotive history: a pickup truck (which benefits from

Thanks. I thought that might me it but, damn. Basically a local politician ginning up a mob for political points.

What's more, according to the mayor of an Ushuaia suburb who was allowed to search the car, a TD Bank pen was found in the glovebox. Clearly, the only reasonable interpretation is that Clarkson was trying to make fun of Argentina for defaulting on its national debt.

pretending to know what's offensive and what's not offensive to Argentinians about an event in their history that more or less was a lot of spit on the face and pride by a big power nation at the time aside.... The fact that this was Jeremy Clarkson driving it, a famously offensive character, puts the whole thing into

They definitely picked that car because of the plates.

This doesn't change anything, at all. The point is that it was by no means an accident that particular car/plate combo ended up in Argentina with Top Gear.

The most ridiculous part of the whole scenario is that the people attacking the Top Gear crew didn't even know what the license plate said (per the video of one of the attacks). They heard from someone else, who heard from someone else, that it was insulting and so went off the deep end in reaction. The plate had been

Hey Argentina! Pay us the money you owe us you welchers!

Can someone please explain the "joke" and/or issue, I don't get it.

This still doesn't mean they didn't choose that car BECAUSE it had the plate on it.

You don't think a few Americans would have a problem with three Sunni Iraqi television presenters driving here with a license plate that said "FALLUJAH"?