JEREMY Clarkson is lucky that Adolf Hitler-style salutes only earn sharp rebukes in Britain. If he had done it in Germany, he would have been jailed six months.
But this did not stop the celebrity car reviewer of the popular BBC TV show Top Gear from sparking an outrage after giving the hated Nazi salute on television.
The presenter, 45, made the vile gesture on the programme while he reviewed and mocked German car maker BMW's version of the Mini, a British icon, reported The Mirror.
Firstly, he joked that one could make a 'quintessentially German car' with indicators that worked like a Hitler salute - and he shocked viewers by performing the gesture.
Next, he added that the Mini should have a satellite navigation system 'that only goes to Poland' - a tasteless reference to the German invasion in 1939 that started World War II.
And he continued the tasteless theme by suggesting that the car's fan belt would last 1,000 years - not a veiled comparison to Hitler's boasts of the Third Reich having a 1,000-year reign.
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