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Top Gear Challenges: Amphibious Vehicles. In this special Top Gear Challenges Episode, The Trio of trouble are issued the challenge of building amphibious cars, and using them to travel to and then across a two mile wide reservoir. This special challenges episode appeared in Top Gear Season 8, Episode 3. Submit a Comment Cancel reply.
Whilst filming the Patagonia Special in Southern Argentina the Top Gear became entangled in a controversy regarding the number plate displayed by Jeremy's Porsche: H982 FKL. Local Argentinians in Ushuaia claimed that the plate was a reference to the Falklands War of 1982, a sensitive topic in Argentina. It is the first Top Gear special since 2011's India Special to be broadcast at Christmas time. 2  Like both the Burma and Africa Special, the Patagonia Special was broadcast in two parts. 3  The special was the second special episode to air in 2014, the first of which was the Burma Special.