I really enjoyed Top Gear tonight especially with the Snow Plow/ Combine harvester :lol:

That snowplow/combine harvester was immense! James likes his bovril...and a-ha!

I can't stand Bovril :sick:

why not just drink gravy?

*cue complaints from Daily Mail readers*

Amber Heard- waow.

last in the series tonight, but it's 6/7. I take it 7 of 7 is a 1-6 recap?

I guess so

last in the series tonight, but it's 6/7. I take it 7 of 7 is a 1-6 recap?

 

Wonder whether the highlights show will feature the "Mexicans" gaffe................... :rolleyes:

After all, it was the most talked about item in the whole series!:P

hi

hello?

Yo?

I found the jokes neither funny nor offensive. I think it was overreacted and given way too much importance, in addition, knowing the comments were based on generealizations and stereotypes and made by 3 tv hosts who are famous for using that people should give a damn. Anyways I still watch Top Gear every now and then but not because of their sense of humour but for the cars review. Now if you excuse me I'll go to sleep.

 

But the ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza did make a formal complaint to the BBC and called on the presenters to make a public apology for stirring 'bigoted feelings against the Mexican people'.

 

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lmfao: bigote is equal to moustache in spanish.

Series 17 guys :awesome:

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2011/06/16/series-17-the-first-trailer/

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPltV7Dk7Ck]YouTube - ‪Top Gear comes to Lincoln to recharge for Season 17 (University of Lincoln)‬‏ [/ame]

 

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I found the jokes neither funny nor offensive. I think it was overreacted and given way too much importance, in addition, knowing the comments were based on generealizations and stereotypes and made by 3 tv hosts who are famous for using that people should give a damn.

 

Exactly. And as everyone surely knows by now, most of the people making these complaints are "bandwagon jumpers" who don't even watch the show. Their attention is usually drawn to a particular comment via the press, they then get all whipped up in a frenzy, and before you know it, it's been turned into an international incident.

A similar thing happened with than infamous Jonathan Woss and Russell Brand radio show, which hardly anyone had even heard when it was first aired.

Who knows? Clarkson and co. might even make sure such a comment is included in every show, as they know it will attract publicity for the programme.

It would definitely make sense, as they know it won't alienate any of their hardcore fans.;)

This is a great town car.

 

Back next Sunday yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Even the BBC say Top Gear’s Mexican jokes were out of order

 

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

 

Last updated at 9:40 AM on 24th June 2011

 

BBC2 show Top Gear has been criticised after complaints were upheld by the corporation's own watchdog over the way its presenters poked fun at Mexicans.

 

The edition of the show had already led to an apology to the country's ambassador over remarks made by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.

 

Now the BBC's editorial complaints unit (ECU) has upheld formal criticisms from viewers, saying they reinforced stereotypes.

 

Criticised: Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond (left), James May (centre) and Jeremy Clarkson made wise-cracks about Mexicans

 

Insults: Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson on Sunday's show discussing a Mexican sports car the Mastretta

 

Banter: Hammond called Mexicans 'lazy, feckless and flatulent'

 

The production team on the programme has been advised of the findings and ‘issues arising’ from them.

The Mexican ambassador complained to the BBC, claiming the presenters had made ‘outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults’.

 

Richard said Mexican cars reflected national characteristics, saying they were ‘just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent’.

Cross: Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza called for the presenters to make a public apology

 

James described Mexican food as ‘like sick with cheese on it’, while Jeremy predicted they would not get any complaints about the show because ‘at the Mexican embassy, the ambassador is going to be sitting there with a remote control like this (snores)’.

 

He added: ‘They won't complain, it's fine.’

 

Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza did complain, which led the BBC to respond that it was sorry if the programme, broadcast on January 30, had caused offence.

 

The corporation argued at the time that national stereotyping was part of British humour and the remarks were like labelling the French as arrogant and the Germans as over-organised.

The editorial complaints unit has now ruled that although the remarks were humorously intended, ‘their tone and cumulative effect seemed to the ECU to give the impression of reinforcing, rather than ridiculing, the stereotype’.

Complaints were received from 11 viewers and from the Mexican section of the Latin American Studies Association.

 

The comments were cut before the show was screened in the U.S.

However, many Mexicans were offended by the comments and at the time Mexican radio boycotted the BBC, presenters were criticised by the country's newspapers and in internet rants pitting insults against the right to free speech.

Fast: The Mastretta has an estimated top speed of 150mph

 

The row even threatened to cast a shadow over a trade visit that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was planning to make to Mexico.

 

Mexicans also emailed websites to protest that the country has a better motor manufacturing industry than Britain and lower national unemployment.

Following the fall out comedian Steve Coogan attacked the Top Gear presenters calling them 'uber-conservatives' who are more tragic than comic.

The Alan Partridge star ripped into Jeremy Clarkson, branding him a 'bully', and accuses co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May of being his henchmen.

Joke too far: The three presenters, pictured here with The Stig, are known for their humour, but some viewers were not amused by their segment about Mexicans

 

He criticised all three for being offensive in a bid for 'a kind of anti-establishment aura of coolness' which he claims actually reveals them to be desperately uncool.

 

Equalities chief Trevor Phillips also weighed in at the time, condemning the comments as 'juvenile, vulgar and unacceptable' and said it was all a bid to create more publicity.

 

This is not the first time Top Gear, with its blend of motoring news, schoolboy humour and audacious stunts, has got into trouble.

 

In 2008 the show was rapped by the BBC Trust for showing Clarkson and May sipping gin and tonic at the wheel during a stunt.

Because we all know that these three always follow the advice of the BBC

Because we all know that these three always follow the advice of the BBC

 

:lol:

The BBC has a double edged sword, to them the Top Gear brand is a massive money-maker, just look how many countries the show has been sold to, so they can't really be too nasty to the cash-cow in case Clarkson & so decide to give the BBC the 2-fingers and take the show elsewhere (because all 3 presenters are shareholders in the company whom owns Top Gear)

Fantastic episode so far. Loved Hammond in South Africa haha. That beast was unbelievable!

 

Also, I want that 1M. In orange. Yes please.

I want the old mini rally car James was driving :cheesy: always loved old minis.

Alice Cooper sucks at driving. He handled that car more like an old woman than a "wildman of rock"!:rolleyes:

He was even outdriven by Louis Spence!:dozey:

 

Bit disappointed nobody got insulted in the first show.:(

Alice Cooper just didn't know where he was going did he?! Still he was a great guest! Really good to have it back on tv. One of only a few shows at the moment I make a point of watching. The others being Family Guy and Angry Boys.

Sebastian Vettel :dazzled:

Sebastian Vettel :dazzled:

 

Some lad isn't he!