Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson breached BBC guidelines by comparing a Japanese car to people with growths on their faces.
A report by the the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee (ESC) found he "strayed into an offensive stereotypical assumption" with the scripted remarks during an episode of the hit motoring show,
A member of the public complained about the remarks after Clarkson likened the shape of a Prius campervan to someone with "a growth on their face" and referred to it as the "elephant car".
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