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* The ending to the Patagonia Special takes the cake. The production crew had to abandon the entire challenge when a group of Argentine nationalists took offense to Clarkson's numberplate, '[[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar H982 FKL]]'[[note]]They thought that the licence plate was fake and deliberately put there as a reference to the war. Prior to the trios arrival, it had already begun circulating through Twitter that this was the case. However, this was not the case as the licence plate was actually ''real'' (the vehicle had that number plate since its manufacture in 1991, which the DVLA site confirmed) and it was just a coincidence that it included '982' and 'FKL'[[/note]], and threatened violence if they didn't leave the country. The situation is deemed serious enough that the three presenters and female members of the crew are evacuated by helicopter. The remainder try to leave with a police escort, but they're informed that a mob is waiting for them at the next town, which proceeds to toss eggs and rocks at the convoy while the police do little to stop the assault. The crew decide to go off road and make an illegal border crossing into Chile to avoid any other attacks. Daylight showed that not only were windows broken, chunks had been gouged off several of the convoy's cars by the rocks thrown at them.

* The ending to the Patagonia Special takes the cake. The production crew had to abandon the entire challenge when a group of Argentine nationalists took offense to Clarkson's numberplate, '[[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar H982 FKL]]'[[note]]They thought that the licence plate was fake and deliberately put there as a reference to the war. However, this was not the case as the licence plate was actually ''real'' and it was just a coincidence that it included '982' and 'FKL'[[/note]], and threatened violence if they didn't leave the country. The situation is deemed serious enough that the three presenters and female members of the crew are evacuated by helicopter. The remainder try to leave with a police escort, but they're informed that a mob is waiting for them at the next town, which proceeds to toss eggs and rocks at the convoy while the police do little to stop the assault. The crew decide to go off road and make an illegal border crossing into Chile to avoid any other attacks. Daylight showed that not only were windows broken, chunks had been gouged off several of the convoy's cars by the rocks thrown at them.

* The ending to the Patagonia Special takes the cake. The production crew had to abandon the entire challenge when a group of Argentine nationalists took offense to Clarkson's numberplate, '[[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar H982 FKL]]', and threatened violence if they didn't leave the country. The situation is deemed serious enough that the three presenters and female members of the crew are evacuated by helicopter. The remainder try to leave with a police escort, but they're informed that a mob is waiting for them at the next town, which proceeds to toss eggs and rocks at the convoy while the police do little to stop the assault. The crew decide to go off road and make an illegal border crossing into Chile to avoid any other attacks. Daylight showed that not only were windows broken, chunks had been gouged off several of the convoy's cars by the rocks thrown at them.

** Appropriately, the episode ends with [[spoiler:the three presenters parodying the ending to ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'']].

* Richard Hammond's Vampire Dragster crash. Hammond's co-hosts regularly poke fun of his height, but the fact of the matter is that Hammond's height may have actually saved his life. Were he so much as an inch taller, the impact would've decapitated his head and killed him. Hammond himself looked visibly uncomfortable when they were about to show the crash in the series 9 premiere. While Richard Hammond thankfully managed to recover from the crash, it doesn't make it any less horrifying.

--> '''Sir Ranulph:''' If--if your whole body fell in, and the car had gone in, and your tent had gone in...you could probably survive for, if there was no wind, hours? But I'd--I'd probably prefer in those circumstances to go quickly rather than slowly.

* During the budget supercars challenge in Series 7, the engine in Clarkson's Maserati Merak suddenly disintegrated while the car was travelling at speed. Bad enough by itself, but the engine's failure was so spectacular that it also totalled the car's brakes, forcing Clarkson to veer off the road and ditch the car in a hedge. This happened at a time when there were relatively few cars on the road, but if it had happened just as the team were approaching one of the nearby towns and traffic was slowing down, it could easily have resulted in Clarkson rear-ending another car before he had time to react.

---> '''Sir Ranulph:''' If--if your whole body fell in, and the car had gone in, and your tent had gone in...you could probably survive for, if there was no wind, hours? But I'd--I'd probably prefer in those circumstances to go quickly rather than slowly.

* The ending to the Patagonia Special takes the cake. The production crew had to abandon the entire challenge when a group of Argentine nationalists took offense to Clarkson's numberplate, '[[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar H982 FKL]]', and threatened violence if they didn't leave the country. The crew leaves with a police escort, but they're informed that a mob is waiting for them at the next town, which proceeds to toss eggs and rocks at the convoy while the police do little to stop the assault. The crew decide to go off road and make an illegal border crossing into Chile to avoid any other attacks. Daylight showed that not only were windows broken, chunks had been gouged off several of the convoy's cars by the rocks thrown at them.

* Sir Ranulph Fiennes' frostbitten hand. Notably, this is one of the few times in the show where the guys have no comeback for what they've just seen. James and Richard visibly cringe when Sir Ranulph shows them the pictures of his swollen, necrotic fingers; James even averts his eyes for a couple of seconds. Jeremy, on the other hand, goes silent and stares at Sir Ranulph with a very serious expression as he shows them the extent of the damage done to his hand by a few moments of immersion in Arctic waters.

* The infamous America special, which features the trio driving around the southern states. Part of their challenge involves them driving through Alabama after spraying various offensive messages on each other's cars -- which included phrases like ''"Nascar sucks"'', ''"[[UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton Hillary for President]]"'', ''"Country and Western is Rubbish"'', and ''"Man-love Rules OK"''. All in good fun, right? Clearly, the team didn't expect the locals' [[BerserkButton critical sense of humour failure]] -- as the town's residents [[DisproportionateRetribution begin rounding up an angry mob and trying to hunt the team down,]] pursuing them down the freeway with threats of violence. Once they manage to get out of sight, the production crew desperately rip off their own clothing to wipe off the slogans as quickly as possible.

** Hammond was so stressed by the extreme temperatures and hard physical labor that he had random crying fits, at one point took three tries to count to ten, and threatened his teammate Mattie [=McNair=] when she made an ill-timed joke about putting him in the harness to replace one of the dogs. There was no humor in his voice.

** Before they even reach the boulder field, the thin ice of the fjords proves just as dangerous. Jeremy has to drive as slowly and carefully as possible, with every jolt and bump scaring the hell out of him, and James next to him holding an ice axe -- ready and waiting to break the car's windows [[FromBadToWorse if they go into the water.]]

** Clarkson's face goes ashen and he is too stunned to speak initially when he reads that the finish line is at Chernobyl. And it gets '''worse'''. Belarus is Europe's last remaining dictatorship, and for that reason, the BBC is forbidden from setting foot on that nation's soil, so even if the finish line were at the border with Belarus, they'd still have to backtrack and pass by the reactor '''again''' after reaching that finish-line!

** Hammond was so stressed by the extreme temperatures and hard physical labor that he had random crying fits, at one point took three tries to count to ten, and threatened his teammate Mattie [=McNair=] when she made an ill-timed joke about putting him in harness to replace one of the dogs. There was no humor in his voice.

** Hammond was so stressed by the extreme temperatures and hard physical labor that he had random crying fits, at one point took three tries to count to ten, and threatened his teammate Mattie McNair when she made an ill-timed joke about putting him in harness to replace one of the dogs. There was no humor in his voice.