For extra hilarity, when taking this journey, ask for a ticket to Ryde. The people working the ticket counter will never have heard this before.
Was anyone else disappointed by the lack of hovercraft mayhem in that video?
āIāll show you how to drive a ferry shitfaced!ā - Richard Smith
Iāve seen significantly more mayhem created whenever the Top Gear chaps have given hovercrafting a go.
But of course, theyāre idiots.
Well obviously he shouldnāt have been drinking in the first place. But given that he ended up wasted at the controls, letting someone else dock the craft seems like a good choice. As opposed to the staten island ferry approach, that is.
Ohhh, do I hear envy speaking? 
No, they really are idiots; Latest in a series of gaffes:
Also, whatās with the big red ellipse? Itās as if someone is saying āby the way this is the hovercraftā. As if no one knows what a hovercraft looks likeā¦
Gaffe?
Itās entirely deliberate. They got exactly the response and publicity they wanted.
Although Iād think youād have to work pretty hard to get someone to even notice the reference, let alone get that worked up about it. Iām not going to be surprised if this turns out to be as fake as the southern US one was.
I wonder if they employed someone to ānoticeā the plate and point it out to other people?
In winds and gales, hovercrafts are the work of the devil. Itās like being in a washing machine.
I didnāt think someone could make a boring hovercraft video. Apparently you have to be drunk to do so. Just a video of someone properly parking a hovercraft (which they cut) would have been cooler.
Must have been exciting there when the whipped it out of the water and onto the pad in about a tenth of a second. Good thing it didnāt run over anybody 
It helped me. I was looking for something that was, well, hovering.
Well the production crew (not the idiots) bought the car and judging by that Telegraph article thereās no evidence they were specifically looking for one with such a numberplate, and it would have been very hard to fake. I agree though, itās surprising anyone noticed so maybe they did point it out.
The most sensible of the three, James May, was on the radio last week talking about it and was adamant that they knew nothing about it and it wasnāt deliberate. Of course heās going to say that but he sounded genuine, as did his retelling of their swift exit so I donāt personally think they faked it.
Please say nice things about dad. Heās got a drinking problem but at least he didnāt plow into anything. Everyone was fine and he is now getting treatment. Thanks.
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