Whatever your opinion is on wether Top Gear knew about the plates or it was a coincidence. The fact is that the Argentinians were prepared to kill or seriously injure people and they did destroy 3 cars all because 1 car had H982FKL as a number plate. I’d say that’s a pretty massive over reaction to a fairly tenuous link. I remember that Top Gear did give out an address once for Germans to complain about a segment and I seem to remember it contained references to the world wars and 1966 World Cup final and the Germans didn’t even lodge a complaint about it, let alone try to kill them

Chances of getting a manual 928 are pretty slim in any circumstances.

I used to work on Dunsfold aerodrome when they were filming Top Gear. Unfortunately the security there was such that you couldn't just go and wander round willy nilly. So none of us could go down the other end of the airfield and see the test track and all the filming. We just heard all the tyre screeching! My boss explained to me the once, when we were taking the van on-site, as we passed the main gate there's a car park at the side, and that's where "they dump all their stuff". So presumably all the cars from the road trips were all left there to rot. I still think it was a MASSIVE blunder of the BBC not to offer 'toy' car sets of the road trip vehicles. Given TG's popularity around the world, it would have been a big money spinner. Too late now.

About 20 years ago i acquired a proper mini cooper, which had a private plate on it. I didnt want it contacted the dvla who said if i surrender the plate i would get an age related plate, or if the original plate had not been issued i would get that plate. The car now resides on its original plate

Another interesting video. Thanks for posting it. All the very best to you.

thank you my friend , this video did the filling in

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Everything u said in this vid as been well documented before but very interesting vid! 👍

The cars were left there in Argentina they had to be abandoned after the mob attacked them

Right then: You have got it wrong regarding the plate change, you have mis-interpreted the data! On 27/12/2014 I ran an Experian car data check on H982 FKL. The DVLA recordings go like this: Date of first Registration: 30/05/1991 Keeper Change: 31/05/1991 Keeper Change: 02/09/1997 PLATE Change: 'Swap to H1 VAE' from H982 FKL on 05/03/1998 Keeper Change: 08/05/2000 PLATE Change: 'Swap to H982 FKL' from H1 VAE on 25/05/2001 Keeper Change: 02/06/2001 Keeper Change: 05/07/2003 Keeper Change: 11/07/2014 Keeper Change: 08/08/2014 (Top Gear Prod. Company??) The car was first registered as H982 FKL. I still have the report because I knew this would come up again...

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Top Gear Patagonia Spezial.........or....How a country completely makes a fool of itself.😂😂😂

mind you, just because another car had the number inbetween doesn't mean, the 928 didn't have the number plate before.

Let’s face it, as soon as the Top Gear team get their hands on any classic car it’s as good as destroyed anyway. Some survived filming in usable condition but most were ruined on screen and those the threesome didn’t keep either ended up in museum exhibitions (Beaulieu for example) or rotting away in their huge open air yard.

Interesting again, Is it just me that thinks that there was way too much hype about the plate, I mean it's pretty obscure is it not?

There is apparently video out there of the 3 cars being crushed, that video will likely never see the public eye. However, there is an image online of the wreckage of the 3 cars (I have seen this image, can't find it now :( ). Though, weirdly, the V5 on the Porsche has been renewed.

For any nationalist Argentine in the comments, the FALKLANDS (Not las Islas Malvinas) are British

It did survive. If you check plate checker, the Porsche did 34 miles last month

Argentinian Officials made themselves look like a bunch of BE11 END’s throughout the whole event 😂

I bought a set of plates for my wife cost £200 (might have had a few cough) few years later she wanted to change the car and the hassel of rentention and insurance change was'nt worth the cost to keep the plates so they went with the car.

Could you please do an episode with Mark Evans's E-type Jaguar and the kit racing car he built? I wonder if he sold them or still has them. I enjoyed his shows A LOT.

Re the private plate being in the Porsche, they could have been there and the owner of said plate, figured they would get new physical plates for their next car, rather then putting the already now used and probably tatty looking plates on. Just because the plate was transferred, doesn't necessarily mean the physical plates were. Just a thought.

never thougth I'd hear Micheal Caine talking about top gear

There was a v5c issued in October 2020🤔

I really hope those cars weren't destroyed just because of a political misunderstanding. That's just plain stupid, how's it the car's fault, the plates could have been on anything...

in short, those people can't take a joke well. bunch of immatures tbh!

I thought Hammond had the Mustang back in Uk

Topgear lie?! Why the nerve... I never... who would have thought... HRUMPH!

While the Porsche came with this plate, it might have been chosen (over other offers) because of the plate. Jezza is someone who likes to cause mayhem, and that is exactly why he is so popular. Although he certainly miscalculated this one. Or maybe not. In any case, the reaction of the right-wing m*r*ns in Argentina is utterly unacceptable and just shows why they lost the war and why their country is in such a bad state.

Viva Malvinas . How would we like it if Argentina claimed Isle of Man , they’re welcome to Isle of Wight though .

So May, Clarkson & Hammond were flown out from the hotel and were never in the convoy getting attacked?? This wasn't clear during the episode.

Nope they did not lie at all about them

In all honesty, the Top Gear crew and everyone else involved had it coming and are to blame. It was a dumb decision to use those number plates. Also silly was the fact that the Porsche 928 was modified, it just didn't look good. I still hope they spared the Lotus, that car was nice.

For me the plate was too much of a coincidence, can't help thinking Clarkson didn't insist on a Porsche and they just bought the car because of the plate

no they didnt lie move on

I was a fan of Top Gear until that special. I'm ok with thrashing some old end of life cars, albeit classics, because it's an interesting way to bring back interest to them (The Subaru Impreza after the Uganda special had a sales peak in the used car market). But those three cars were RARE, in ok conditions and valuable. Also, the story is strange and weak. First it's a tribute to V8 Engines, then they roam endlessly for no reasons and with no clear destination, the special is full of recycled gags, and then they want to build a stadium with things being contained in the back of their cars (seriously?!?), and we all know that the controversy between Argentina and England after the Falklands/Malvinas was re-ignited by a football world cup match in 1986, so that too was a reference. Add the fact that the two spare number plates were inside the 928, a tweet (apparently) from the Ushuaia people warned them to not come into the city, and that the 928 plate is far too evident and visible in the special, and you can see what I mean. I'm sorry, but it's obvious to me that they did it on purpose, and after that, Clarkson, Hammond and May lost all respect to me.

Some say they bought the car knowing its number plate and then made a story around it and then went off to Argentina. Easily done if you want to be controversial