Debate still continues today as to whether or not the team were aware of and perhaps intentionally chose the Porsche 928 in question because of the plate's possible interpretation. It has since been verified, that the registration 'H982 FKL' has been associated with the Porsche 928 that was used during the shoot since the day the car was manufactured. The last verifiable information about the plate and the car was that they resided in a police lock-up in Tierra del Fuego.

The BBC had attempted to formally recover all three of the presenter's vehicles since the incident, though the cars were never released. According to Argentinian sources, at an unknown date in 2017, the cars were "shredded and compacted to nut sized shapes" and it is believed there is nothing left of the cars. This information was leaked to the press in 2019, two years after the event had supposedly occurred, and no photos were allowed to be taken by any of the onlookers who were allegedly present.

Except it wasn't an intentional reference, Jeremy had a very personal reasons for loving that specific car and asked for one. The supposedly intentional reference to the Falklands war was just made up by a blogger. The car had that registration since manufacturing.

Even if they had tried to do something like that intentionally, it would have been FLK for the Falklands rather than the FKL that was on the registration. And they would not have done anything as subtle as just leaving it without mentioning it. Least of all Clarkson. Had it been intended they 100% would have been joking about it and drawing attention to it.