BBC: Top Gear Tesla didn't run out of juice

Chardee MacDennis

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/22/bbc_top_gear_tesla/ wrote:

The BBC has admitted that the silver Tesla Roadster driven by Jeremy Clarkson on this past weekend's Top Gear didn't run out of juice and didn't need to be pushed home. However, the Corporation said it stood by the results of its test of the 'leccy sports car.
A spokeswoman for the popular motoring show confirmed to Register Hardware - as Tesla's head of spin, Rachel Konrad, recently claimed - throughout the test, the show was never without a working Tesla.
"They never had to push a car off the track because of lack of charge or a fault," Konrad wrote earlier this week. "It’s unclear why they were pushing one into a garage in the video; I’ll refrain from speculating about their motives."
Now we can reveal the answer: according to the Top Gear spokeswoman, the tested Tesla was filmed being pushed into the shed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge.
"Top Gear stands by the findings in this film and is content that it offers a fair representation of the Tesla's performance on the day it was tested," the BBC said in statement.
Of course, Tesla probably shouldn't be too upset by any of this as said findings where predominantly favourable. When it thrashed a Lotus Elise - the car on which the Roadster is based - in a drag race, Clarkson announced that the "volt-head had beaten the petrol-head" and it was "snowing in hell".
We'll also be surprised if his comment about the Roadster being "broadband motoring" doesn't end up in Tesla's PR at some point down the line. In the hands of Top Gear's "tame racing driver", the Stig, the Roadster completed a lap of the Top Gear track in exactly the same time as Porsche 911 GT3, and that is not a slow car. ®

its a bit odd that they would do this really?!?

peasant

moved from motors

zAbbo

BastardPrince wrote: »

its a bit odd that they would do this really?!?

Really? The show is very heavily scripted and edited to take a particular slant on anything they're testing.

Do you believe all the little scrapes and hijinx they get involved with?

Bluefoam

When they did the Alfa Chalenge I remember being told that they pushed one of the cars onto its side to give the impression they rolled it...

Chardee MacDennis

zAbbo wrote: »

Really? The show is very heavily scripted and edited to take a particular slant on anything they're testing.

Do you believe all the little scrapes and hijinx they get involved with?

oh i know it is scripted, but it is really a blatant lie this time.

Guy:Incognito

zAbbo wrote: »

Really? The show is very heavily scripted and edited to take a particular slant on anything they're testing.

Do you believe all the little scrapes and hijinx they get involved with?

Saying a car broke when it didnt is a bit low though. They were tryign to make out it was unreliable.

mike65

Type Tesla Top Gear into google news or blogs and theres loads of stuff on the review.

bennyx_o

Stekelly wrote: »

Saying a car broke when it didnt is a bit low though. They were tryign to make out it was unreliable.

They never said it broke, they just said it ran out of charge which is inevitabely going to happen on an electric car.

Chardee MacDennis

mike65 wrote: »

Type Tesla Top Gear into google news or blogs and theres loads of stuff on the review.

mike do you mind me asking why? is there something i am missing?

Ciaran500

bennyx_o wrote: »

They never said it broke, they just said it ran out of charge which is inevitabely going to happen on an electric car.

Just watching it now, they said the silver one broke and they over heated the other one.

bennyx_o

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Just watching it now, they said the silver one broke and they over heated the other one.

Apologies I remember them saying one over heated now that you mention it