Top Gear Christmas Special: Patagonia

[pheoxs]

The part about clarkson and his dad hit me right in the feels :-(

[soloracer]

My wife and I loved the special. She thought Hammond sounded like Marvin the Martian.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Originally posted by pheoxs
The part about clarkson and his dad hit me right in the feels :-(

This.

[01RedDX]

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[flipstah]

Originally posted by 01RedDX


Who owns Manchuria though?

I thought the Chinese hold a grudge against the Japanese for invading Manchuria back then.

So not a good analogy then? I wasn't sure.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by flipstah


I thought the Chinese hold a grudge against the Japanese for invading Manchuria back then.

So not a good analogy then? I wasn't sure.

Chinese held a grudge for Japanese occupation during WWII. Especially for Nanking Massacre during the occupation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

Stories from this made Hitler and SS looks like saints in comparison.

[01RedDX]

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[flipstah]

Originally posted by 01RedDX


I guess a better analogy would be to imagine what would happen if a bunch of Japanese went cruising across the Chinese countryside in fancy cars. To this day, any perceived insult from the Japanese is met with protest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ch...demonstrations

Except the horrific shit the Japanese did to their Asian neighbours is much worse than anything the British did to the Argentinians. Xtrema's post is just one example.They deserved to get nuked just for what they did in the Philippines alone.

The Japanese pillaged our land like you wouldn't believe. It was horrible.

Yeah, I wasn't sure of the extent of the hate towards the British so I threw an extreme to gauge the hate. As mentioned, it sounds like the Argentinians are just sore losers.

[VWEvo]

Any link to watch this?

[Jeff TYPE R]

It really doesn't surprise me that the Argentinians behaved the way they did in the show. What a bunch of savages.

This time 2 years ago I was in Argentina. I've never encountered as many stuck-up, unfriendly, and patriotic assholes, anywhere else in the world as in Argentina.

As you can tell from the show, the landscape is amazing, but just go to Chile and Brazil and skip out on Argentina. That's my travel tip of the day.

[clem24]

Unlike the last special I thought this was very well done. Isn't Hammond's car quite rare and sought after?

So I wonder what became of their cars..

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by clem24
Unlike the last special I thought this was very well done. Isn't Hammond's car quite rare and sought after?

So I wonder what became of their cars..

Last news blurb I can found on this....

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/01/t...-report-video/

[ZedMan]

Originally posted by clem24
Unlike the last special I thought this was very well done. Isn't Hammond's car quite rare and sought after?

So I wonder what became of their cars..

I don't think that body style is very popular, it was the 69-70's that are sought after

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Xtrema


Last news blurb I can found on this....

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/01/t...-report-video/

They need to get it back to be part of the set!

[bjstare]

I watched this over the weekend. To be honest, I wasn't super impressed by it. It was cool, but I've liked many of their other specials more. The station wagon one, bolivia, the congo... vietnam. Actually I think I like this special the least of all haha

Dat lotus doe...

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by cjblair
I watched this over the weekend. To be honest, I wasn't super impressed by it. It was cool, but I've liked many of their other specials more. The station wagon one, bolivia, the congo... vietnam. Actually I think I like this special the least of all haha

Dat lotus doe...

They seem tired and lost their fight in this one. I think the Argentinians did them a favor.

[g-m]

Originally posted by Jeff TYPE R
It really doesn't surprise me that the Argentinians behaved the way they did in the show. What a bunch of savages.

This time 2 years ago I was in Argentina. I've never encountered as many stuck-up, unfriendly, and patriotic assholes, anywhere else in the world as in Argentina.

As you can tell from the show, the landscape is amazing, but just go to Chile and Brazil and skip out on Argentina. That's my travel tip of the day.

I've been 3 times and loved it every time. Going back next year

[ragu]

Originally posted by Jeff TYPE R
It really doesn't surprise me that the Argentinians behaved the way they did in the show. What a bunch of savages.

This time 2 years ago I was in Argentina. I've never encountered as many stuck-up, unfriendly, and patriotic assholes, anywhere else in the world as in Argentina.

As you can tell from the show, the landscape is amazing, but just go to Chile and Brazil and skip out on Argentina. That's my travel tip of the day.

Sounds like you haven't even been south of the border let alone all the way to Argentina...

Originally posted by g-m
I've been 3 times and loved it every time. Going back next year

+1

[natty54]

loved it

I thought cpt slow hurt himself a lot more than he did.

[Redlyne_mr2]

I didn't like this episode at all. I know much of Top Gear is staged but everything about this episode seemed fake. They cross a bridge that leads to a dead end? The cut through some field because the road ends? There is no doubt that the plate was done on purpose and regardless of how the Argentinians are it's disrespectful and them lying about it makes it worse.