Clarkson, Hammond and May embark on an epic journey in three used V8 cars to the most southern tip of America.Clarkson, Hammond and May embark on an epic journey in three used V8 cars to the most southern tip of America.Clarkson, Hammond and May embark on an epic journey in three used V8 cars to the most southern tip of America.
- Director
- Stars
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- Self - Presenter
- (as Robert Leroy Clarkson)
- Self - Presenter
- (as Robert Leroy Hammond)
- Self - Presenter
- (as Robert Leroy May)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe ARA General Belgrano sailed on its last voyage from Ushuaia on 26 April 1982. The ship (formerly USS Phoenix) was a Brooklyn-class WW II era light cruiser that served in the Argentinian Navy from 1951 until it was sunk on 2 May 1982 by torpedoes from the HMS Conqueror. Its sinking cost the lives of 323 men, roughly half of the Argentinian deaths in the war. Even though it (and all other Argentinian naval ships) had been ordered the day before to launch a "massive attack" on the British fleet, there is some controversy over the sinking since it took place just outside the 200-mile total exclusion zone around the Falklands Islands.
- GoofsWhen the ferry is shown going through the islands of Tierra del Fuego early in the morning a clear shot of the vehicles on the ferry is shown. The three presenters' cars are clearly not on board.
- Quotes
[first lines]
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.
- Crazy creditsThe names in the credits are listed as Robert Leroy and then the actual surname of the person.
- ConnectionsReferences Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
I learned that the people in southern Argentina support the military dictatorship of the 1980s, still want two worthless rocks in the South Atlantic and are unlawful and ignorant.
Like you, we will never travel to Argentina.
- rwingr
- May 5, 2022
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes