Mexico angered by Top Gear 'xenophobia' - TV & Radio, Media - The Independent: "The Mexican ambassador to Britain has complained to the BBC over 'offensive, xenophobic and humiliating' comments on the motoring programme Top Gear.
Eduardo Medina-Mora wrote to the BBC after the show's presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May compared the characteristics of a Mexican sports car to those of the country's citizens.
Hammond said of the Mastretta under review: 'Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.'
They went on to describe Mexican food as 'refried sick'."
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