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Top Gear offends Malaysians

By Alison Godfrey

April 05, 2007 01:45pm
Article from: NEWS.com.au

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* Top Gear host annihilates Malaysian car
* Jeremy Clarkson says Perodua has 'no soul'
* Malaysians offended by criticism

TOP Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has offended Malaysians with his latest stunt on the cult automotive show.

In the latest episode of the show in the UK, Clarkson labelled one of the country's cars the "worst in the world" and "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion".

He then attacked the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer and hung it from a crane with a one-tonne weight attached before blowing it up.

Check out the YouTube video below and to the right to see Clarkson annihilate the Perodua.

It's not the first time that Clarkson has voiced his frustrations with Perodua. In an article in the Top Gear magazine, he said the three-cylinder car's name sounded like a disease and suggested it was "built in the jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes".

But Malaysian Minister Datuk Abdul Raman Suliman defended Perodua, saying the company had exported thousands of cars to Britain and never had any complaints.

He said the export model of the car had to adhere to certain standards set by the importing country and these had been met by Perodua

Perodua is Malaysia's second national carmaker. It began producing compact cars in 1995.

[BOGANV8]

Cant find the link did you forget to post it up

[albert5268]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE

Heres the video of him doing it...

[albert5268]

Heres the link
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21510094-2,00.html

[calais_304]

LOL well if they weren't so **** then there would be nothing to critisize them about.

[BOGANV8]

This is a funny one too that he done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf-0S48WM0&NR=1

[calais_cruzin]

HAHAHAHAH

Cant hack that there car is crap, i cant beieve that its a new car, looks like its 12yrs or older.

They wouldnt have the problem if they had a qualified designer.

[Ripcell]

ahwell, just saying what he thinks, wheres the crime in that?

[Lloyd1986]

News flash for Alison Godfrey who wrote that article. That isn't from the latest episode. Its at least two or three years old. Top gear isn't even airing in the UK at the moment. Makes you wonder what you can believe in the news if this journalist didn't even do some simple research...

On a side note, anyone else here read any of Clarksons books? They are Hilarious.

[VZTHUNDER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf-0S48WM0&NR=1 (i know this link is a repost but i dont want to quote it =P)
who ever posted this earlier is right about it being funny
esp when he put the wings on lmao

[JD]

cant say i blame clarkson for doing that, it looks like a sirion and we all know what pos's they are!

[stocky]

ive seen this. its got nothing to do with top gear. it was for a seperate video jeremy made by himself called heaven and hell. basically it was about a selection of really good cars he drove around, and a group of crap cars that he destroyed.

[Marco-EFIVL]

Good on him, I like Jeremy Clarkson, even more, I REALLY like political 'incorrectness', there is something... so... 'justified' about it...