Tesla Motors Sues Top Gear - SportsCarMonitor.com

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Every company is sue happy anymore. I have heard the harshest of criticism from that now too, that wasn't all that bad there :lol:
 

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I can see why they would be upset. Top gear tried to claim the car only achieves 1/4 of the mileage tesla said it would, then to find out, top gear lied about it and never even came close to running the battery out. Thats going out of your way to put down a company and not even being truthfull about your claims. So yea, if even if 2 potential buyers for that car seen that show and decided against getting it because of that, they just cost them thousands of dollars.

The car had its downfalls and yea, doing an unbiased review, you should be pointing them out to make your viewers aware. But to blow up its downfalls and really over exaggerate how bad it is, ESPECIALLY, on one of the main selling features of the car!!! Thats not right..

Im a top gear fan by the way and seen that review and i was very dissapointed when i seen they only got 55 miles out of it. Now that i see it was a lie, that kind of took away some of my respect for that show.
 

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Yeah they shouldn't have flamed the car as much but I doubt anyone that general Top Gear audience would never consider (or afford) a Tesla.

EDIT: I had to turn a Top Gear episode on after reading this.
 
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... Still. It's a TV show for entertainment purposes. Nobody goes to Top Gear for their "serious" vehicle road test reviews.
 

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You dont have to even watch the entire show or any of it for word to travel. Word gets around saying, "hey top gear tested that new tesla car and they only got 55 miles out of its charge"

Entertainment or not, its a pretty clear cut statement about the cars capabilities which happens to be false
 

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I don't think a purely entertainment TV show has any obligation to present anything as fact or fiction.

It's not the news.
 

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