Tesla Sues Top Gear UK

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Mar 30, 2011 | 05:08 PM

jnaval

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Tesla Sues Top Gear UK

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...66142220110330
2. http://jalopnik.com/#!5786995/tesla-...ctric-car-test

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Tesla says in its suit that Top Gear‘s show about the Roadster inaccurately portrayed the Tesla Roadster as having a 55-mile battery range (it’s got a 200-mile range); that Top Gear falsely showed the Roadster having to be pushed into a hangar by people after the battery was drained (Tesla says it wasn’t out of power); and Top Gear incorrectly said the brakes of one Roadster were broken while the other Roadster overheated (Tesla says neither of those things happened). Tesla specifically names Top Gear executive producer Andrew Wilman, researcher Gavin Whitehead, and presenter Jeremy Clarkson, in the lawsuit.

Mar 31, 2011 | 12:51 AM

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1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...66142220110330
2. http://jalopnik.com/#!5786995/tesla-sues-top-gear-over-rigged-electric-car-test

Wow Top Gear. Well..from the get go, it doesn't matter how awesome the show is they do seem like douches.

Apr 5, 2011 | 08:19 AM

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Idk how to feel about this one. All the lawsuits surrounding Tesla almost make you wonder if they are trying to pick a fight. I mean 2 years..really? I mean I don't agree with Top Gear lying about a product but at the same time with all the law suits that Tesla has been involved in already it's hard for me to really see who is the bad guy here.

Apr 13, 2011 | 02:38 AM

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...it doesn't matter how awesome the show is they do seem like douches.

It's an honest car review, which to me at least, is a lot more interesting an informative than a review done by some guy that gets payed by the manufacturer to praise what could be a total hunk of crap.

I'm sure they don't say the things that they often do to try and be douches, it's just part of what makes the show what it is and is a real world statement about what the car is really like.