Top Gear!

Looks like Top Gear is in trouble again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12907367

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On the programme Jeremy Clarkson claimed: "Although Tesla say it'll do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles."
But in a statement on its website, Tesla said the Roadster's miles per charge had been certified at 211 miles by a third party European Union (EU) test. It argued that because the car was "driven aggressively" on Top Gear the charge didn't last as long, but that if driven "mindfully" charges could last for 313 miles.

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But Top Gear isn't about driving cars 'mindfully' it's about thrashing them around a test track, and I don't think they claimed otherwise! And the test is relevant as these cars will often be used as trackday cars.

Why do you want a sportscar that you have to drive mindfully? If I buy a car called a Roadster then I'm gonna be thrashing the nuts off it.

What a bunch of dorks! Let's make a sports car, so you can drive it around like a minivan.

Tesla are going to lose this ridiculous lawsuit.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Looks like Top Gear is in trouble again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12907367




But Top Gear isn't about driving cars 'mindfully' it's about thrashing them around a test track, and I don't think they claimed otherwise! And the test is relevant as these cars will often be used as trackday cars.

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What a bunch of to$$ers :down: They should have to pay a shyte air tax for the air pollution the bull$#it that comes out their mouth causes.

Personally I agree with Tesla. The Top Gear segment misrepresented the Tesla.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Personally I agree with Tesla. The Top Gear segment misrepresented the Tesla.

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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY

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if I watched that video I'd imagine the Tesla Roadster to be a hugely unrealiable car which will run out of charge in no time.

The fact of the matter is that Top Gear made it look like the cars ran out of juice and needed to be recharged when in reality neither of the cars supplied ever went below 20% battery power. They also said that one of the cars had broken brakes which is apparently untrue. I can certainly understand why a small company like Tesla is fighting this and I hope they win :up:

http://www.teslavstopgear.com/

listen we all know that Top Gear like the make things up or stage things or exaggerate and I quite agree with Tesla that this is not acceptable when people may be watching and thinking that what they're seeing is a genuine review of a product.

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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...ar?INTCMP=SRCH

This article is more detailed and less biased.

If Top Gear pretended the Tesla had run out of batteries when it hadn't I think they'd be open to being sued successfully.

Given that Top Gear is so heavily scripted and reviews of technology Jeremy Clarkson doesn't like are so biased (like motorbikes or anything ecological) I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla is correct at all.

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

what's the past tense of Stig, Stag? :p

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Stig (path), stigen (the path), stigar (paths), stigarna (the paths).

However if you ask me, the real stig is of course mäster himself.

Top Gear will win. I doubt highly the BBC legal types would have let Clarkson and the boys air the segment if the car didn't die under him.

Tesla may want to put their car in the best possible light, but Clarkson was driving the nuts off the thing.....and as an auto journalist he should.

Never fight with the press, they buy their ink by the barrel, and film stock by the mile. The BBC will win this...