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** The jokes they made about the Mexican supercar they tested earned this reaction, which is why that segment never aired in the US.
** Even worse off, their dissing (and subsequent on-screen wrecking) of the [[Malaysia|Malaysian]] made Perodua Kancil car was probably the true reason the BBC Entertainment channel (which airs Top Gear in Asia) is no longer available from Pay TV providers in the country. In other words, Clarkson's action cost Malaysian ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans their access to the show! <ref>And oh, Perodua cars are designed under commission by Daihatsu Japan</ref>.
** Some has speculated that the real reason India wishes to implement Internet Censorship was because of some stunts that the crew of the show pulled off while reviewing an Indian-made car, and [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Indian authorities want to do everything in their power to block said episode from getting in]] as revenge[
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Stig.
* [[Estrogen Brigade]]: ''Top Gear'' has a remarkably solid female fanbase for a show oriented around manly pursuits. The trap is probably [[Mr. Fanservice|baited with hamster]], but Clarkson, May, and even The Stig have their devotees.<br /><br />This is made fun of on the show frequently: all three have been featured in this context in magazines and suchforth, but only Hammond tends to appear on lists of "hottest male celebrities" (once in a gay magazine, technically making him testosterone bait as well). That said, all three main presenters have won the dubious title of ''Heat'' magazine's "Number One Weird Crush" in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120812062650/http://www.heatworld.com/Fun-Stuff/2009/09/Weird-Crush-2009--we-want-YOUR-votes/ consecutive years], and there was a campaign for The Stig to win it in 2009 -- though sadly he only managed third place.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The presenters' [[In-Series Nickname|In Series Nicknames]] (Jezza, Hamster, and Captain Slow) have been taken up by the fanbase. The presenters collectively are sometimes called the Top Gear Three, or TG3 for short.
** Also "White Stig," distinguished from the former "Black Stig" by the white color of his racing suit.
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** The comments Richard Hammond made before his accident if anything went wrong, that it'd be one of the biggest crashes ever. He even admitted if he wasn't "a shortarse" and had been James' (originally meant to drive it but couldn't make that day) or Jeremy's size, when the car flipped and his helmet plowed the ground, he'd probably would have been decapitated. Some of the comments even made Hammond visibly wince when they showed the footage in the studio.
** In the fourth episode, Jeremy and Richard Burns note that Colin [[Mc Rae]] tends to hurt himself. Granted he died in a helicopter crash, but he was the one piloting it.
* [[Hate Dumb]] / [[Misplaced Nationalism]]: The [[Top Gear US|American]] and Australian versions have gotten hate mainly because "It's not the British version." A lot of hate for the American version comes from [[
** Noting the [[Acceptable Targets]] example, the hosts themselves tend to invoke some [[Misplaced Nationalism]] at times.
** [[Fan Hater]]: The complaints over the various controversies and the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] crowd are bad enough, but when it stoops down to bashing people's taste in comedy, what follows usually makes the presenters' squabbling look like sensible debate.
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** Played straight with Richard Hammond's gigantic, near-fatal accident in the Vampire.
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