The crew of Top Gear had a narrow escape from Argentina today after local residents, angry at a perceived slight about the Falklands conflict, pelted them with stones.
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond and their production crew fled across the Chilean border, abandoning three cars used in filming.
The BBC confirmed that after an anxious wait at a remote border crossing, all of the team made it out safely.
The BBC Two programme — no stranger to international controversy — was accused of being deliberately provocative by using a numberplate on a Porsche driven by Clarkson, H982 FKL, that referred to the Falklands war.
The BBC insisted that the numberplate was merely coincidental. However, war veterans staged a demonstration outside the hotel in