TopGear Special comes to a dramatic end with rocks being hurled at the crew.

The whole controversy started about a licence plate on Clarkson’s Porsche 928 that read H982 FLK which some people seemed to believe made reference to the 1982 Falkland’s war.

A quick check with the DVLA shows that the Porsche used by Clarkson did indeed have that licence plate for its whole life and that it wasn’t swapped out by the TopGear team. Andy Wilman the Producer behind the hit car show said

“Do you know how many Porsche 928GTs there were for sale when we were looking? Two or three, tops. The odds of one having the number plate we “wanted” are millions to one. The plate was genuine, remember, not one we had made up.”

It wasn’t until the third day in Argentina that the team noticed there might be a problem. Autoblog Argentina had sent a photographer to the teams’ hotel to try and get pictures, while there they tweeted a picture of the Porsche and commented

"Top Gear Argentina has begun its ironies. The Porsche that @JeremyClarkson is driving through Patagonia. Anyone else read '1982 Falklands'?"

“The truth is the first time we realised the plate could be a problem was on the third night of our shoot in Argentina (19 September, I believe), when Jeremy was scrolling through Twitter and spotted a comment on one of the auto fan sites, next to a photo of the plate. I remember his surprise and concern.” Said Wilman

In the latter part of the show we got to see the protesters pushing the crew out of the hotel and further up the road they pelted the crew cars with eggs and rocks injuring two and smashing up the cars.

The first 52 minutes of the show were not in the least controversial. The boys raced across open terrain, May fell off a horse and cracked three ribs. The only reference to the Falklands prompted Clarkson to rebuke his colleagues with the comment: “We’re supposed to be mending fences, not knocking them down.” The scenery and night skies were so stunning that Clarkson declared, over a dinner of barbecued beaver, that “Tierra del Fuego is the most beautiful place in the world”.

There didn’t seem to be a problem anywhere else on the trip as presenter James May commented on the show “But we haven’t had any animosity whatsoever in the whole trip,” he complained. “Everybody has been perfectly decent and charming.”