‘Top Gear’ Mustang Stunts Blasted by London Officials

By TMS Editor - March 17, 2016

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It sounds like actor Matt LeBlanc might have gotten under the skin of a few chaps in London during the recent filming of a Top Gear episode.

Of course, I imagine hearing Ken Block wheeling his Gymkhana 7 Mustang in front of your office when you’re trying to work would probably tick off most people. At least those who aren’t car fans.

From the photos, it appears that LeBlanc was actually riding shotgun during the Top Gear taping in central London. However, as the fresh new celebrity face for the revamped BBC show, it’s been LeBlanc who was has been forced to bear the brunt of the criticism.

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Take for example, the tweet below from Chancellor Andrew Bridgen, who was working on budget preparations when Block’s highly-modified 1965 Mustang was smoking up the streets of Westminster.

“Trying to write my Budget, despite noisy episode of BBC Top Gear being filmed outside,“ he tweeted. “Keep it down please.”

Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of U.K. forces, took it one step further, practically calling the act sacrilegious when the Mustang was doing doughnuts near the war memorial in Whitehall.

“It’s worse than doing a stunt in a cemetery and screaming round people’s graves,” he said. “It’s a shocking desecration of one of our most sacred sites. The BBC should apologize and cut that part of the show.”

Well, we guess Ken Block’s Gymkhana 9 won’t be holding residence on the streets of London.