Not sure if this is an April fool or not… but if it is it’s a great idea for them…… Quote is below but basically the electric sports car company didn’t like the job Top Gear did when it had a couple of test cars….. Clarkson & co hate electric cars… We doh… Really?  Add it to the list of anything less then a V8, any form of hybrid or diesel, anything Hammond drives, e.t.c. it’s a long list so they should be at home.

So the big question…. What took so long for a car company to have a whack at them??

Actually… The 55 mile range and blowing a wheel motor, I can believe…. Clarkson’s record for a Ferrari I believe is @3 miles/gallon and ripping the rear tires off in 20miles… so not a stretch to believe those figures might be right.  Ok… The pushing them into the garage broken might have been a bit of entertainment.

A recent show where I think Bentley pulled out a specific car at the last minute have a far better libel case…. Clarkson simply replaced it with a $500 bomb and kept referring to it as a Bentley and comparing to the other pair of $1M cars they had…. suffice it to say the “Bentley” did not fair well again either of the other cars in ary category 🙂

http://www.teslamotors.com/teslavstopgear

On Tuesday March 29 Tesla sued the BBC television programme ?Top Gear? for libel and malicious falsehood.

When Top Gear reviewed the Tesla Roadster, the episode that aired contained lies and misinformation about the Roadster?s performance, behaviour and reliability. Tesla reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored.

In the episode, Tesla Roadsters are depicted as suffering several critical ?breakdowns? during track driving. Host Jeremy Clarkson concludes the episode by saying that the Roadster doesn?t work.

Specifically, Top Gear misrepresented that:

The Roadster ran out of charge and had to be pushed into the Top Gear hangar by 4 men.
The Roadster?s true range is only 55 miles per charge (not 211).
One Roadster?s motor overheated and was completely immobilized as a result.
The other Roadster?s brakes were broken, rendering the car undriveable.
That neither of the two Roadsters provided to Top Gear was available for test driving due to these problems.
The breakdowns were staged and the statements are untrue. Yet the programme?s lies are repeatedly and consistently re-broadcast to hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide on BBC television and web sites, and on other TV channels via syndication; the show is available on the internet, and is for sale on Top Gear DVD?s around the world.

Tesla wants people to know the truth, and correct the public?s misperceptions. The Roadster and its EV technology, as well as EVs generally, have been unfairly and viciously maligned by Top Gear.

Tesla simply wants Top Gear to stop rebroadcasting this malicious episode and to correct the record, but they?ve repeatedly ignored Tesla?s requests.