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[R1minimagic]

If you look at GDP per capita, i think you will find a very different story!!!

[minisilverbullet]

I think we are all missing the point.

yes India are a wealthy nation, a super power who feature in the G20 (i think). On the other hand a quarter are living below the poverty line. The country lacks infrastructure, local governments seem to be fragmented from the national government, there may also be a hint of corruption at all levels.

Why such a huge divide between so called national wealth and individual poverty is not for us to say. what we can say; is there is a huge divide between the haves and the have nots, you just had to look at the cars which drove up to the "topgear" party in last nights episode to see that.

No one will dispute that there are really poor maybe hungry people in India. My original point was, that the topgear buffoons were insensitive approaching disrespectful, in their action of throwing, spilling and playing with food.

[mini93]

Christ tmf's boring and predictable! when i was watching... i laughed! and said that i bets tmf's bitching and moaning... clearly i was right! and im glad it wasnt just me who noticed front ends clearly dont pull off that easily! it was made to do that, and big deal... if it was required to do so, simples to correct with some new pannles... but its only a sportsback haha

[lrostoke]

It's the same with the food cans, they were empty, as if they'd really let the TG muppets deliver them. It's called television :)

[Andrew O]

Everyone needs to lighten up ALOT, They did it as it would make good television. I thought it was funny. It's not like its your Mini.

[dave1293gt]

Everything is staged. Do you really think TG would do half the stuff they do without permission. I doubt it

Look at films and other programs, some Proper Classic cars were used in programs such as Heartbeat.
A mini of 2000 vintage has classic status and is not a classic car.
Something else to note is most of the topgear cars end up on display not scrapped.

As others have said some people need to lighten up. Enough people are breaking cars for spares in the classifieds section Yet not one of them is being moaned at for doing so.

[Big Sam]

It lost its front end...so what. All of them do eventually!

It was rigged to happen that way anyway. Think of the damage it could have caused if the winch was attached to the subframe. This way they could at least stick a new front end on for a couple of hundred quid and be back to the way it was.

[Black.Ghost]

The government may be rich but as with many countries in the world, there is corruption and the money does reach the places it needs to.

Look at Africa. With the amount of world aid they have received poverty should not be a problem!

Aside from that and back on track, it was clear the panels were rigged to do that - the a panels were undamaged! It was funny to see.

As for the insensitivity, like has been said, it was for tv, it's not real! Do you think they just failed to deliver all those meals? And I am also sure the production team would have paid for any food they did use! Clarkson might be an oaf, but James May isn't and would not have been that stupid, let alone the production team.

[TfcIan]

I thought it was a good episode, there have been better but as a mini fan it was good to see it on such a popular program. I was laughing when they ripped the front off; You knew something was going to happen and I was expecting the mini to go into the Roller and the jag to smash into the back of the Mini. I think it got off lightly, particularly for TG standards of destroying cars. They weren't randomly smashing into each other at least. The damage wasn't too bad, there are minis which need a lot more work than that and as others have pointed out, it was a write-off so it doesn't make much difference. Better than it being taken to a scrapyard. It looked great in the hill climb and to be honest, I was surprised it got up that slope which the Rolls needed winching up.

I thought Hammond already had a Mini though? He said at the start that this was his first, but I'm sure I've read somewhere (probably a link to the TG website from here?) that he already owns one. I think it was in an article about best cars ever made or something of that sort.

[minisilverbullet]

As for the insensitivity, like has been said, it was for tv, it's not real! Do you think they just failed to deliver all those meals? And I am also sure the production team would have paid for any food they did use! Clarkson might be an oaf, but James May isn't and would not have been that stupid, let alone the production team.

Brilliant do you think we are concerned that the food didn't get delivered to its intended recipients? And hundreds of workers went without their lunch! Of course it was staged! The insensitivity is that they clearly wasted food in a country where many go without. This was also watched by hundreds of bystanders, who themselves while maybe not hungry, have some respect to the value of food.

[RetroRay]

I may have to invest in a winch! wont need to spend ages cutting a front end off ever again!

[Black.Ghost]

I get the issue is wasting food in a country where there is such poverty, but that's not the point. There is no way the BBC would have allowed that. Most of the tins were empty and those that did have something barely looked like food anyway.

I hate the fact that there is so much poverty in the world. But the TG team is not the issue - the country does ok, it's an internal issue on the distribution of wealth, just like half of Africa. Call me insensitive if you want, but I find it hard to get all emotional about when it's partly their own fault.

Did anyone else think the straight 6 cricket was good?!

[mininuts]

Did anyone else think the straight 6 cricket was good?!

Yes mate, I thought it was brilliant

[minisilverbullet]

Most of the tins were empty and those that did have something barely looked like food anyway.

You could have a point there!

[firstforward]

As for the insensitivity, like has been said, it was for tv, it's not real! Do you think they just failed to deliver all those meals? And I am also sure the production team would have paid for any food they did use! Clarkson might be an oaf, but James May isn't and would not have been that stupid, let alone the production team.

Brilliant do you think we are concerned that the food didn't get delivered to its intended recipients? And hundreds of workers went without their lunch! Of course it was staged! The insensitivity is that they clearly wasted food in a country where many go without. This was also watched by hundreds of bystanders, who themselves while maybe not hungry, have some respect to the value of food.

Get a life mate, food gets wasted everywhere, I am fed up with ******* going on about how others should feel or behave as if they are on a higher moral plain and need to advertise that fact.