Ferrari tells Top Gear to stop using knockoffs in live show

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Posted on 06 March 2009 Tags: a-few-weeks, a-recent-hotel, celebrities, Ferrari, ferraris, ferraris-at-all, italian, philip-fleming, show, tips

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Apparently, word got around to Ferrari that Top Gear Live was not using real Prancing Horses for its stunt driving routine in Australia a few weeks back, and it sounds like the Italian automaker is none too happy about it. A spokesperson for Ferrari said, “We asked them to change it… for the Hong Kong [Top Gear Live] show (the last stop on the world tour). We said please use real Ferraris.”

The Ferrari spokesperson also said that Top Gear Live had admitted to using replica Ferraris. BBC’s head of communications, Philip Fleming, says that he’s been in contact with Ferrari but stops short of admitting that the show’s supposedly Italian machinery was fake. Whatever the case, the Top Gear Live show in Hong Kong didn’t use Ferraris at all, real or fake. Instead, the sequence was changed to incorporate unspecified drift cars that TG believes are more in keeping with the the interests of the local audience. Problem solved.

[Source: Stuff]

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