Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla

An anonymous reader writes "Top Gear's producer Andy Wilman responds to Tesla's lawsuit: 'We never said that the Tesla's true range is only 55 miles, as opposed to their own claim of 211, or that it had actually ran out of charge. In the film our actual words were: "We calculated that on our track it would run out after 55 miles."' Interesting points, and as far as I can remember also correct. But I'm assuming Tesla is going the get the PR they want on this regardless of any court rulings."

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Re:55 miles is pretty good, and not the point

[Anonymous Coward]

This same show recently did a comparative review of a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, and a Mercedes Benz, but the Bentley was actually a Yugo, because Bentley didn't loan them the real car.

Were you at all tricked into thinking the Yugo was really a Bentley?

Now, compare to the number of people who see the TopGear episode in question and think the Tesla "ran out of juice".

They had the opportunity to stick to the facts (where was Captain Slow?) and still make a good show.
Hell, BOTH of the cars Tesla delivered needed repairs.
Instead they had to fabricate the break-down scene, ruining an otherwise good commentary on the issues with EVs.

PR that tesla want

[sqldr]

I shagged Tesla's mum in the butt.