article_snippet: But the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee said there had been ‘no intended racist reference’ by the Top Gear team.
article_snippet: Last night Clarkson was at the centre of another controversy after he said in the March edition of Top Gear magazine that foreign taxi drivers in London have ‘vehicles smelling of sick’.
article_snippet: he also turned on drivers in the North, saying northern roads are overrun with immigrants ‘who have never experienced tarmac before’.
article_snippet: The inflammatory comments follow a string of racism rows.
article_snippet: Last year, Clarkson apologised after he was filmed allegedly using the N-word in the poem
article_snippet: Shortly afterwards, he used the racist term
highlights_snippet: But BBC Trust says there was 'no intended racist reference' on Top Gear .