We’re not like that, insists ambassador after Top Gear’s slur on Mexicans

Daily Mail ^ | 02/01/11

[KevinDavis]

The BBC's Top Gear has been criticised by the Mexican Ambassador to the UK for a series of 'outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults'.

His Excellency Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza has written to the corporation to complain about the comments made in an episode broadcast on January 30, and demanded the show's hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, make a public apology.

[KevinDavis]

May is wrong.. Mexican food is good.

[cripplecreek]

LOL yeah I took offense at that and I’m not mexican.

[chevydude26]

Have these guys actually met or seen real mexicans...they work like crazy here in the states

[surroundedbyblue]

Typical Marxists.....so tolerant of others’ opnions. This guy has a right to dislike Mexican food. Of all the negative things that can be said about the Craphole south of the border, this was pretty mild.

The Mexicans need some thicker skin.

[Deaf Smith]

I suppose the Mexican Ambassador wants to send Zetas to the Top Gear set as technical advisers?

[Tax-chick]

I like Mexicans much better than Eurotrash, thanks.

[Frantzie]

It is okay. It is pretty starchy.

[KevinDavis]

Ditto..

[Frantzie]

Europeans took the fight to Islam for thousands of years. Mexicans not so much.

[Tax-chick]

Did you look at the guys in the article? Yeah, I bet they’re real crusaders. And Mexicans are part Spanish, if anyone imagines the late Medieval period is relevant to the issue at hand.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

They rip into everybody! It’s part of their schtick.

[aft_lizard]

Pttht I watched the episode the other day where they drove a caddy, corvette and charger in the US and made some pretty insulting comments about the US as well. Didn’t bother me too much.

[Lazlo in PA]

The guys are dead on here. Mexican food sucks and so does this car. 150mph top speed for a sports car? Ridiculous. My '90 560SEL does that with luggage in the trunk and my wife in the passenger seat. Screw you Mexico. Get over yourself.

This car company is a joke like the country:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastretta

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Have these guys actually met or seen real mexicans...they work like crazy here in the states

Yeah. Too many of `em.

Too bad they don't work like crazy in their own country.

[Charles Martel]

150mph top speed for a sports car? Ridiculous.

It appears to be a bad copy of the Lotus Elise, powered by an engine from a Ford Focus. 150 mph is pretty respectable, given the hardware (the ridiculous part is the price). One thing, though: for a Mexican car.... c'mon, where's all the *chrome*? It must be intended for the export market.

[Godwin1]

Touchy, touchy. Do the Mexicans think they rate the same respect as Muzzies? (Of course,if they WERE Muzzies, the cowardly, verminous, PC-crippled BBC would not dare ridicule theme.)

[Stentor]

they work like crazy here in the states

Based on the 3ft tall women and snot nosed whelps I see all over the city, it's not the only thing they do like crazy.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson (center) from a recent episode.

[VeniVidiVici]

We’re not like that, insists ambassador after Top Gear’s slur on Mexicans (and their cars) as ‘lazy, feckless and flatulent'

I state offense to that gatement.

[KevinDavis]

Here is a tweet from James May:

Can't believe all these mexicans tweeting. Apart from speedy Gonzales they've given nothing to the world apart from shit food and body odour