Top Gear2002

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Jeremy Clarkson:
Hello and welcome to the second part of the Top Gear Christmas special: the part where it all goes wrong.

Richard Hammond:
As you probably saw in the first programme, we were doing an homage to the V8, driving all the way across Patagonia, from the town of Bariloche, here, on our way to the town of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego.

James May:
Now Ushuaia is the city from which the battleship Belgrano sailed on its final voyage at the beginning of the Falklands War. And as a result of that, the British are not... overly popular down there.

Richard Hammond:
In a bid to build bridges we were planning to build a stadium when we got there and play an Argentinian team at car football.

Jeremy Clarkson:
However there was a problem. Someone on an Argentinian website noticed that the car I was driving sported the number plate H982FKL and they wondered if perhaps this was a reference to the 1982 Falklands War. Now we've been made aware of the issue shortly after we arrived in Argentina, but there was nothing really we could do, I mean you can't just change a car's number plates. We did, however, develop a plan that would solve the issue when we arrived in Ushuaia. Unfortunately, as you will see at the end of what follows, we were never given the chance.