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Top Gear’s 16th season is currently livening up Sunday evening entertainment on BBC.
In classic Top Gear fashion, the show has only seen four episodes of season 16 yet the famous trio have already managed to invoke the ire of many groups courtesy of its legendarily off-hand stereotyping and geo-politically insensitive comments.
CLASSIC TOP GEAR FARE
Top Gear’s Christmas special managed to offend Muslims (the trio donning traditional female Muslim headwear) and Christians (by portraying baby Stig as the new-born Jesus).
While featuring Mexico’s Mastretta sports car in the show's news segment Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May applied every conceivable stereotype concerning Mexicans and their perceived laziness. Even the Mexican ambassador to the UK was described as being lazy...
As usual the BBC has defended its most popular show’s hosts by categorising their stereotyping humour as a quintessentially British character trait. Now, though, the hate mail has turned to death threats after the Top Gear trio took on a subject much closer to home - the Welsh.
GREAT ROADS, NO PEOPLE
After years of offending Welsh viewers – May once called their language "baffling and dangerous" – Top Gear’s presenters have received death threats after concluding that fast cars should be tested on Welsh roads because they are quiet and generally deserted as ,"nobody wants to live there".
Although British motoring journalists have for decades used the flowing country roads of Wales to test cars, the Welsh are not happy about Top Gear’s derogatory comments. This time the Top Gear team is taking the consequences of their actions rather more seriously too.
"It isn't the Mexicans we have to worry about - it is the Welsh. They really took offence. We received quite a few threats on our lives," May told the News of the World.
In classic Top Gear fashion, the show has only seen four episodes of season 16 yet the famous trio have already managed to invoke the ire of many groups courtesy of its legendarily off-hand stereotyping and geo-politically insensitive comments.
CLASSIC TOP GEAR FARE
Top Gear’s Christmas special managed to offend Muslims (the trio donning traditional female Muslim headwear) and Christians (by portraying baby Stig as the new-born Jesus).
While featuring Mexico’s Mastretta sports car in the show's news segment Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May applied every conceivable stereotype concerning Mexicans and their perceived laziness. Even the Mexican ambassador to the UK was described as being lazy...
As usual the BBC has defended its most popular show’s hosts by categorising their stereotyping humour as a quintessentially British character trait. Now, though, the hate mail has turned to death threats after the Top Gear trio took on a subject much closer to home - the Welsh.
GREAT ROADS, NO PEOPLE
After years of offending Welsh viewers – May once called their language "baffling and dangerous" – Top Gear’s presenters have received death threats after concluding that fast cars should be tested on Welsh roads because they are quiet and generally deserted as ,"nobody wants to live there".
Although British motoring journalists have for decades used the flowing country roads of Wales to test cars, the Welsh are not happy about Top Gear’s derogatory comments. This time the Top Gear team is taking the consequences of their actions rather more seriously too.
"It isn't the Mexicans we have to worry about - it is the Welsh. They really took offence. We received quite a few threats on our lives," May told the News of the World.
