TOP GEAR is in seriously hot water not just with the hippie dippy tree huggers who strive to strip them of their petrol fueled rights to drive their Range Rovers to do donuts on the front Lawn of Buckingham Palace to spite green car lover Prince Charles. This time, they have managed to offend an entire country whose residents live just South of the American border. That’s right — the occasionally controversial gear heads have managed to &%$# off Mexico. How?
By making racist remarks about what would happen if Mexicans built an exotic car.
The results of such an auto they say would be...
Read HERE about what the hosts of TOP GEAR said about Mexicans that got them in trouble on BBC:
TOP GEAR on BBC makes fast car news for racist comments? (an editorial)
Fortunately, the Stig neglected to comment.
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The hosts of Top Gear are smart, witty, and make remarks about exotic cars, luxury cars, sports cars, and daily driver transportation that make car fans laugh the world over.
Know for being anti green car and hating the Prius by Toyota, hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are respected in the auto community but not for being very PC.
While their negative remarks about the Mexican people were not well recieved by the general public, their fast car laps on the track and exotic auto reviews are taken quite seriously.
That's why the trio of auto show hosts offering a negative critique of a push to build autos in Mexico was taken as something potentially damaging to any branding reputation of a new car if and when Mexico begins producing something more interesting.
If you follow car history, Volkswagen made cars like the Golf and the Jetta in Mexico in the late 1980s. At that time, people would come to dealerships to look and see where the car was manufactured -- as the German cars had a better reputation for quality.
The remarks on Top Gear was not about this business move.
It was about Mexican cars -- new designs by manufactured by Mexican designers in Mexico.
They will have to overcome the stigma of cars being of lesser quality to successfully create a Mexican car company. However, the negative comments on Top Gear were about the Mexican people as a race, not the automobiles.
That's why their comments were problematic for the viewers, as they gave a bad review of and unseen product based on stereotyping individuals.
What do YOU think? Would you buy an exotic car that was manufactured in Mexico should one become available in the future that looks hot enough? Why or Why not? Sound off in the comments section below.
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