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Seems Top Gear was ran out of Argentina. The 928 Clarkson was driving had the plates H982 FLK and was clearly a purposeful reference to the Falklands war. Even though research showed it was the original plate given to the car. The president of Argentina also complained that the plate on the Mustang had the number 269 only a few numbers away from the 255 Britons killed and the Lotus had the plate number 646 was a reference to 649 Argentinians killed. Top Gear made public statements that the numbers were coincidental and agreed to leave the country. But as they were trying to drive out of the country there were protests and stones thrown at them. They ended up leaving the cars.

I think maybe the Argentinians were just pissed at them trying to make pickup trucks out of sports cars.
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