abudabit
04-05-2007, 10:26 AM
Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has come under attack in the Malaysian parliament for labelling one of the country's cars the worst in the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6528087.stm
The BBC presenter has been filmed attacking the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer before blowing it up.
But minister Abdul Raman Suliman defended the nation's car industry, saying Mr Clarkson was like a football commentator who cannot play football.
Perodua had not received a single complaint from UK owners, he told MPs.
He added that the comments were made merely to boost sales of the Top Gear magazine.
'Soulless'
Mr Clarkson has voiced his frustrations with the small three-cylinder model in both magazine articles and on the Top Gear motoring show.
In one article, he said its name was like a disease and suggested it was built in jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes.
And on the show, he described it as "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion".
He then smashed it, hung it from a crane with a one-tonne weight attached, before blowing it up.
Perodua is Malaysia's second national carmaker and began producing small compact models in 1995.
But wait, it gets worse. The UK parliament ALSO held on a different occassion a FUCKING HEARING on this guy:
In 1999, several Members of Parliament criticized Top Gear for being "obsessed with acceleration".[28] The BBC however has rejected numerous complaints about the show and its presenters, "Were the presenters' comments and pranks carried out with any degree of seriousness, rather than being clearly tongue-in-cheek or adopting the deliberate overstatement that is the programme's trademark, we would of course take issue with them".[29]
As bad as the US government gets, I'm so fucking glad to be here... oh wait... the baseball steroid senate hearings.
Now for the good stuff, here he is destroying that little fleaman of a fucking car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6528087.stm
The BBC presenter has been filmed attacking the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer before blowing it up.
But minister Abdul Raman Suliman defended the nation's car industry, saying Mr Clarkson was like a football commentator who cannot play football.
Perodua had not received a single complaint from UK owners, he told MPs.
He added that the comments were made merely to boost sales of the Top Gear magazine.
'Soulless'
Mr Clarkson has voiced his frustrations with the small three-cylinder model in both magazine articles and on the Top Gear motoring show.
In one article, he said its name was like a disease and suggested it was built in jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes.
And on the show, he described it as "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion".
He then smashed it, hung it from a crane with a one-tonne weight attached, before blowing it up.
Perodua is Malaysia's second national carmaker and began producing small compact models in 1995.
But wait, it gets worse. The UK parliament ALSO held on a different occassion a FUCKING HEARING on this guy:
In 1999, several Members of Parliament criticized Top Gear for being "obsessed with acceleration".[28] The BBC however has rejected numerous complaints about the show and its presenters, "Were the presenters' comments and pranks carried out with any degree of seriousness, rather than being clearly tongue-in-cheek or adopting the deliberate overstatement that is the programme's trademark, we would of course take issue with them".[29]
As bad as the US government gets, I'm so fucking glad to be here... oh wait... the baseball steroid senate hearings.
Now for the good stuff, here he is destroying that little fleaman of a fucking car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE