On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:49:15 +0000, Tegger wrote:

> Hachiroku > wrote in
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>> After the segment, in the studio back in England, one of the guys said
>> to James, "Well, the tape made it look like giving your car away was a
>> piece of cake, but it wasn't quite that easy, was it?" James said...
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>> "No. A woman came out of the mission and said we had stated the Camaro
>> was a '90, when actually it was an '89, and that they were going to sue
>> us for misrepresentation. She said if I gave her $20,000 it could all go
>> away right now. Moral of the story, you CAN actually buy a car and drive
>> cheaper than renting, just DON'T DO IT IN AMERICA!"
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> Hachi, please remember that Top Gear is meant to be /entertainment/. It's
> basically a reality show revolving around cars. Do not expect accurate
> journalism or accurate anything else in that show. And Jeremy Clarkson --
> very famously -- hates Americans.
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> It was Jeremy Clarkson that had the Camaro, not James May, and the Camaro
> was a '91, not a '89 or a '90.
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> More he
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_US_Special>


I remembered rereading it that it was in fact "supposedly" a '91.

However, none of that excuses the fact that they GAVE the cars away to
needy people, and got KICKED IN THE ASS for it!