There are 3 mistakes top gear made in history: 1- they made an american version. 2- they fired Clarkson's team. 3- they thought they could do it without him.
@@fuqu7094 but it wouldn’t hurt for us to speak and write properly would it? Why did your parents even bother sending you to school if you don’t give a shit about the most basic things you were taught?
@@lakschu629Yeah but no one misses the mark as much as him. Without the artificial hype by investors and influencers that get paid, Tesla would be in trouble.
@@garosama4517no it wouldn’t because Elon has and continues to own many other profitable businesses. Dude created PayPal, then made Tesla, boring hole company, has his hand in twitter which is actually unprofitable unlike Tesla and his other companies not to mention many others so you’re just plain wrong? He’s one of the richest men on the earth his car business doesn’t have to make profit to stay afloat he can fund it out of pocket if it gets down to that lmfao billionaire you’re a moron
As of 13th May 2024, these are the updates: 1. Cybercab (Robotaxi) is being unveiled on August 8th. Roadster and a cheaper model are expected as well. That will mark the end of Elon's master plan written in 2016. 2. Solar roof are being installed but adoption is very slow. Power walls and megapacks are a hit. 3. Semi truck is in the hands of multiple distributors (Walmart, Pepsico, Costco) but still not widely available. 4. Full self driving is progressing at an incredible pace. Could be the reason for cybercab unveil. 5. Cybertruck is in production but did not have complete features among other issues, major one being accelerator pedal getting stuck. Features were eventually added in an over the air update. 6. Hyperloop is dead*. Boring is drilling. 7. Neuralink has made significant progress showing patient playing video games. 8. SpaceX and Starlink are revolutionizing the space. 9. X is holding it's own for now.
Elon tried to sue them twice and lost. Their review was fair and not really deceptive. It showed a serious downside of all EVs at that time. Jeremy then did a review of the Model X on ‘The Grand Tour’ saying it was one of the few SUVs or vehicles all three of the boys liked. All scripts are written before a shoot
What's funnier is all of the EV fires involving Tesla. It could be from the lithium-ion batteries.....or the Tesla electrical system not being able to handle the amount of energy stored in 6,750 lithium-ion batteries. I mean, if there's the occasional battery fire from a cell phone or laptop....what does adding 6,749 more alongside it is going to do?
@@delanorrosey4730 The fires that have affected EVs like Tesla, haven’t really been from poor construction or an inability for the electrical system to handle the power delivery but, rather from major physical damage to the battery pack, typically from a collision. If a battery is damaged or punctured, this can cause the cell to overheat, triggering a chain reaction called “Thermal Runaway” that can cause a fire. A battery can degrade overtime and a poorly designed and built battery can become dangerous as it ages through use but, a well designed battery shouldn’t experience these issues unless severely damaged. The reason for having so many individual battery cells in a Tesla EV battery pack, actually helps improve safety by preventing damage to one cell from affecting others, more individual cells allows for better performance in acceleration and top speed and using multiple small cells makes for better thermal characteristics, allowing for easier cooling and space for thermal expansion during use.
Their reviews are never fair, the fact that Musk lost the case doesn't make the review right. EVs were rare at the time and they pretty much ruined the ev cars reputation in the name of entertainment.
Elon tried and failed to sue top gear over it though? Clarkson was smug af about it and even when he tests a newer model there a car full of lawyers poking even more fun at Elon before Clarkson calls it like it is
Top Gear officially died when Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond all quit when Clarkson got fired for punching the executive producer in the mouth
so in passing by he glanced over the script, then read it in its entirety while nobody was looking, and then handed the car over to them anyways. Yeah right.
It seems like you're a musk hater when you're misrepresenting the facts. The ENGINEER handed the car over and then he saw the table. It was an engineer not Musk himself where he could've taken a decision to take the car back. I like how you'll twist things a little to have your fill for the insatiable thirst of hate.
Ok, not once did he mention that martian piece of excrement in his comment. Doubting a story without physical evidence is not hate, and in fact, this comment section has less hate towards the martian than it does love. Folk like you are so biased toward any subject involving the martian that you can't even read and understand the message of any opposing opinion or view. And calling people "Elon haters" for simply doubting a claim without any concrete evidence is weak, old and lamentable.
Remember why they won? "as any reasonable motorist knows, a manufacturer's statement about the range of a motor vehicle is always qualified by a statement as to the driving conditions under which that range may be expected." In other words, they didn’t use the car for its intended purpose so it’s not expected to hold up
There is a difference between clowning and being intentionally deceitful dude. Gen Z really knows nothing about nuance anymore. It's all either black or white lol.
@@whitebocolate69 imagine Morgan Freeman narrating Earth’s demise, “That’s when Earth’s richest man bought the world’s ‘town square’, in an effort to get rid of the ‘lames and nancies’. Things couldn’t have gone smoother from there.”
Because it’s hard to sue a company infact be near impossible to sue and win because majority of there episodes it’s scripted and fake but then again giving a company a bad rep for a script of an episode is wrong
It’s also hard to win a lawsuit when your company releases a counter statement of “ we gave Top Gear two Tesla Roadsters to test neither of which broke down, one had a brake failure from a blown fuse, the batteries going dead is an exaggeration because the charge never got bellow 20%, the charge time was also exaggerated it doesn’t take 16 hours but 3 and a half to charge”. guess a brake failure isn’t that big of a deal.
Should have taken a picture of the script and refuse delivery. Could have just used the picture as proof as to why to never do business with them again
In what world has Elon Musk ever told the truth about anything ? He didnt found Tesla. He created / inventwd literally nothing in his entire life. WTF are you people talking about ?
Tesla lost the case. Jeremy Clarkson said "*On our track* the range was 51 miles." Electric cars lose heaps of range on race tracks, so a range of around 80km on a race track is entirely plausible. They knew that they would run it out of battery so they put that in the script. The car genuinely ran out of power, this was done intentionally, but it demonstrated the lack of range on a race track, which for a two seater sports car based on a Lotus (track car) is important. The review was harsh but fair, and they won the court case for a reason. Stop listening to Elon's whinging.
He only said the script already had planned the car "breaking down". He never contradicted your claims. And what a leap, the autonomy went from 80 km to 600 km
I exactly remember that as I watched it long time ago; it did not break down it went out of juice and preparing a script for that is logical as that was 100% predictable
"I appreciate the support from Top Gear in recent years" Yeah that's because the agenda has changed from hating EVs to now EVs only. Fuck all to do with support
@@shiffterCL someone posted the full story as to why higher up but tldr: it was because Judge deemed the average viewer would be able to distinguish the difference between road driving and track driving
@@elitex50 I know they are unreliable. I don't like electric cars and hate the fact that people believe they are better for the environment wich they aren't.
They fake a lot to the point idk what was and wasn’t real in the show anymore. Like for the famous reliant Robin (car that flipped easily) was also fake. They installed huge weights to the one side so it would flip at 5mph. Much of it was funny, but with the expectation it was real. Even the Land Rover episode where a brand new SUV leaked water into the driver map light and started dripping, was that real?
Funny enough, the Tesla actually did break down. The brakes failed, not because something was wrong with the brakes, but because the entire electrical system failed.
That is over exaggerating. And to be fair, they dumped on french cars, british cars, Chinese cars. A car show doesn't mean hey everyone, every car ever made today is great. Everyrhing is great. Life is fluffy with bunnies and no one's feelings get hurt. Grow a pair, its not like you designed and built every American car yourself. 🙄
The show has them sign waivers allowing the show to say whatever they want. Tesla made the mistake of assuming that meant the show runners were going to give honest takes (good or bad). They were dumb to sign that waiver because these shows are NOT in the business of giving honest opinions about cars/parts. They will promote whatever products and sponsors give them the most ad revenue.
Luckily the part about the tesla breaking down was written on the cover of the script in big red writing, otherwise the car delivery guy would never have seen it 😂
@@vinayaksethu5160 next time try to deliver a pizza and read the subtitles of the TV in the living room. Then imagine how much harder it would be to read a small line of a full script on an A4 paper, as if everything was on the front page
@@sfqm1083my guess is he was looking around and it was the title, like "omg electric Tesla breaks down in the middle of the dessert?!?!? One of us dies?!? But none of us were there, so srsly wtf is there to fight about, there's unknown variables that could have taken place
Weird, how if they faked it, Elon did not win the TWO separate lawsuits he filed against Top Gear. The script is just a made up story to cover up that they make awful cars.
Idk elon likes his baby called tesla dude almost went broke because of tesla and spacex but didn't sell a man like that would make sure the car is perfect for its first big show 😂i think crap gear is trash old men need to sleep and let next generation surpass them in silent 🤫
Virgin Tesla: "Oh no, they scripted our car breaking down , this is so sad" Chad Rimac: "You totaled our only prototype and burned it to a husk? Ok cool, here's your watch we have salvaged from the wreckage"
I feel Elon failed to realize that top gear is a scripted show. It was never a serious car review show. Sending top gear a car to review is like sending a game to a polygon journalist so he can review that game
@@dankwedd_yt8197 like pimp my ride was fake. Oh they did shit to the car but they had some shady shit going on and you can look it up. Also all reality tv were scripted to make shit up and get people to fight or argue and just have drama. Like I heard with those bachelor/ett shows they get people to fight by having the camera crew or whatever getting the women to fight. It's in all those shows that people finally tell how it actually went down behind the scenes. It's all funny. I hate reality tv
A lot of people were introduced to various cars through top gear, and they clearly do take the time to review cars. They should have just had Hammond "forget to charge the car" or something, rather than defame Tesla.
@@mspaint93 ur so upset that he’s rich and ur not 😂😂 what do u want him to do give away his riches because he was born into wealth? That’s just stupid man we play the hand we are dealt and he played his to the tune of BILLIONS.
One things Brit’s and Americans agree on is nothing can replace the og topgear Edit: I honestly thought the original topgear was the one with Clarkson Hammond and may. Regardless it’s my childhood and it’s nostalgic
If you mean Clarkson, Hammond and May that was rebooted Top Gear. Not the original. The original show ran from the late 70s to the early 00s. Then after a short break came back in a new format. Which was awful to start with (and May wasn’t even in the first series), took ages to get going then at the end was stale and repetitive. It was past its best
@@jtm9945 die sicherheitsvorkehrungen dass man die Hände auf dem Lenkrad haben muss und wachsam sein muss sind aber erst kürzlich hinzugekommen. Früher war das vollkommen egal zumal er aber auch dafür verantwortlich war, dass dieser "Autopilot" auch als autopilot vermarktet wurde. Und wenn man dann halt weiß dass es eigentlich keinen autopilot ist, darf man es halt auch schlicht und ergreifend nicht als autopilot vermarkten. Selbstverständlich hatten die Leute mal ihren Schädel einschalten können und sich denken können dass es kein autonomes fahren gibt, aber man hätte es auch nicht auf solch eine Art und weise herausreizen müssen. Beispielsweise hat er genau wegen dieser Sachlage nicht mehr das Recht in Deutschland mit autopilot zu werben.
@@jtm9945 he claimed that its fully autonomous back in 2018. He constantly lies. Also thats not the only issue read about how auto pilot turns of seconds before crash so tesla doesn’t get any liability for its wrong decisions
@@skyfox585 so thats why every case where people claim it was aps fault they lose the case because evidence shows ot was human error ? It clearly states in the agreement you accept when entering you car the first time at you are reaponsible. Ots not level 5 . Its level 2 to level 3 automony driving . Though i might say the naming is its biggest problem because people dont see the last wprd afterwards . " Fully selfdrive Capability "
@@jacob9798 No, they're talking about Top Gear UK! He tried suing them for libel and it was kicked out, then the appeal was kicked out too! ____________ An English court has once again told Tesla Motors to take a hike and dismissed the automaker's latest libel charge against the BBC, producer of the wildly popular program Top Gear. Tesla Motors sued the BBC in March, arguing Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear cohorts defamed the company by claiming the Roadster achieved a paltry 55 miles of range on the show's test track. That is significantly less than the 200 miles or more Tesla claims for the car. The program's March 2008 review of the car - which Clarkson praised for its acceleration - included a scene in which a crew is seen pushing the Roadster into a hangar for charging. Although Tesla say it will do 200 miles we have worked out that on our track it will run out after just 55 miles and if it does run out, it is not a quick job to charge it up again," Clarkson said in commentary. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called Top Gear "completely phony" and his company sued for libel and malicious falsehoods. A judge dismissed the suit in October, saying no viewer of the program could have reasonably compared the Roadster's performance on the track to real-world performance on the street. Tesla would not be deterred and returned to court with an amended suit. The same judge, in a ruling handed down Thursday in London, dismissed the claim. He noted that Tesla's amendment was "not capable of being defamatory at all, or, if it is, it is not capable of being a sufficiently serious defamatory meaning to constitute a real and substantial tort," according to The Guardian. He added that "as any reasonable motorist knows, a manufacturer's statement about the range of a motor vehicle is always qualified by a statement as to the driving conditions under which that range may be expected." That, by the way, is a point EV advocates often espouse when explaining range. The BBC was, as you'd expect please by the ruling. We're still waiting to hear from Tesla, and we fully expect Clarkson to say something snarky in an upcoming episode. Source - Wired Magazine Feb 23 2012
@@robertelliott2026 that's fked up. Of course 999 out of 1000 people aren't smart enough to realize that driving on a track at high speeds is not at all the same as regular use on the road. It was most definitely defamatory.
@@ProxCQ anyone watching top gear, at any point in time, knows that a heavier foot, means more fuel used. Meaning most people don’t think an electric car has the same range, no matter how hard you drive it
This engineer just sees a script lying there for that exact episode that wasn't in the process of being filmed since they haven't got the car yet omegalul
Still makes you think how evil people really are, they try to break down any new competition to their business by misleading consumers, paying off public influencers to shit about opponent's products which might actually be better for the consumers and the earth.
Same story goes for Rover, they took the piss on purpose and clarkson was a pretty huge impact on the brand partially causing Bankrupt besides John Towers steaking money from them.
Clarkson era Top gear wasnt a show to sell your car for you, especially a very very boring one at that. Its just entertainment. They did they're best to make a slow and silent pos entertaining and it worked.
@@Mrfix-iz4di if you look at 0-60 times as a judgment of speed, I’m sorry to break it to you but it’s not a good metric. Sure it’s quick up to 60 but will it handle corners as well at that speed and continue to accelerate
@@Mrfix-iz4di I drive a 350z, 0-60 times are inflated due to hybrid systems and electric systems. Speed should be measured on the mile or track. And there is no way a car that makes 250hp keeping up with a Ferrari of the same time period. Not in this universe would that be accurate
@@Mrfix-iz4di regardless of whether or not its built on a lotus chassis, they only reason it would out perform a car in ANY aspect is because its electric. hence the problem with a 0-60 time. they're all eletronically limited. you can do more research sure. but you cannot dispute facts. theres a reason f1 is a larger sport than formula E
@@Mrfix-iz4di tou trust claimed 0-60 times? Oh tou sweet summer child. Alright, jt one and aee if you can get anywhere close to 3.7 without a super sticky drag strip and a 5mph rolling start. Car wnd driver did a good segment on how they had to completely destroy the transmission in a subaru wrx sti and perform over 50 hard launches to hit the claimed number. Claimed 0-60 is a fairytale. Tesla still lie about their 0-60 times today
He loves his company and if you think about how much of your life gets poured into making a electric car that's reliable that hurts granted theres kinks such as extreme cold weather but they are finding ways to fix it and that's awesome
Elon is the biggest whimp there is. Acts as Mr Freespeech to get Republicans to buy his cars but then cries over this stuff and loses twice on court. Weak af.
Agreements like to hold in court, no matter of the circumstances, still kinda ducked tho to do that to small company, but im sure they didn’t mean to hurt the brand, just have a laugh.
@@randomlyfactual1943 it was entirely factual though, the car would run out of charge in less than 60 miles if driven hard the whole time. They also said it was lightning quick and a lot of fun. They just pointed out the other side of the coin in an entertaining manner, as they always do. How's that a dickish thing to do?
@@keenb3041 A British company was being sued. Do you seriously think UK courts have it out for Americans for no reason? I actually believe Elon because TV people are usually dicks, but your argument is retarded
@@keenb3041 they lost cuz they onlu had anecdotal evidence. Whole lawsuit was build on the story that one tesla engineer (who was supposed to make sure the car runs btw) saw a page of the script
His story is BS too, "oh when my 1 guy was there, he saw on the table as he walked past a script that happened to be open and just glanced at that one line" Yeah it is "messed up" Elon. And what's madder than people believing him is that most of the commenters can't see the difference between visual effects on baked eyes vs tears, because people think they see the latter.
In top gears defence, they were really using it more to show what WOULD happen if you were an idiot and didnt keep your car charged. But it got changed in the cut to seem like they didnt even know it was low
Context: 1. the scripted part of top gear is lines they use for the studio shoots. 2. They literally won an Emmy for being mostly unscripted. 3. The engineers claim obviously has some lack of context. Why would you be inside the production office to hand the keys when that could just happen outside on track when the tesla mechanics are having it prepped and if there was scripts that say that the question is: why? And if true why would they leave that in the open for non BBC 2 employees to see. 4. And if I'm wrong, then why did tesla lose the lawsuit? 5. The engineer probably forgot that him seeing scripts where when he was retrieving the keys post review and they could have been newly updated scripts.
You could have done a bit of research instead of literally asking a question you didn't know the answer to "A judge dismissed the suit in October, saying no viewer of the program could have reasonably compared the Roadster's performance on the track to real-world performance on the street." So basically they got away with it because the staged breakdown happens on a track and viewers couldn't possibly be so stupid to think that Just because it breaks down on a track doesn't mean it breaks down on the streets This honestly feels like big company versus small company and Tesla grew the short straw and must have not paid the lawyers enough compared to how much BBC paid Don't post context if you don't have context Or at least do some research before claiming you do Also they were most likely giving the keys to the production manager and even if they weren't, scripts aren't secret (especially for a show about cars with little to know spoilable stuff I'm like shows Like The walking Dead where non-disclosure is important) most of the time they will be lying around Edit: Also top gear's not the only people to lie about electric cars they're just the most popular to lie about electric cars If I'm correct this whole incident is why Tesla installs tracking devices in review cars because there was also a reviewer that literally drove in circles for hours and hours in a parking lot just so that he can say his car ran out of battery out of nowhere with no warning even though it warns him multiple times and even gave him enough battery to go to the nearest charge station even though it was at zero percent But he still wanted to drain the battery so he ignored all of them
@@punnup3452 “ 1. 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." The first point here is that the track is where we do our tests of sports cars and supercars, as has happened ever since Top Gear existed. This is where cars are driven fast , and since Tesla calls its roadster "The Supercar. Redefined" it seemed pretty logical to us that the right test was a track test. The second point is that the figure of 55 miles came not from our heads, but from Tesla. They looked at the data from that car and calculated that, driven hard on our track, it would have a range of 55 miles. 2. We never said that the Tesla was completely immobilized as a result of the motor overheating. We said the car had "reduced power." This was true. 3. Tesla claims we were lying when we said the brakes were "broken". They now say that all that had happened was that the fuse to the vacuum pump had failed, which meant that the brake just had to be pushed down much harder than usual. Well, to my mind, if the brakes are broken, then they're broken, and if this happened to your car, you'd take it to the garage to get it fixed. Odd it seems so trivial to Tesla now, because on the day of filming they insisted on repairing the fuse before we could carry on driving the car. ”
@@aaronsams8605 Okay but all that really says is that they didn't legally say anything was wrong So they can't take legal action but the show is still dishonest with how they're portraying the information and not explaining vital information like how the brakes were broken because if I heard the brakes were broken I would be scared I would not assume "Oh that just means the brakes required a tiny bit more force, It's completely safe" But I would also like to mention again that the judge was on the side of top gear because they believed no consumer would possibly consider top gear a reliable source of car reviews And if you're like me you will see the problem with that very quickly as yes consumers are fucking retarded and Would 100% take the advice of a show that is not meant for actual reliable information
Bruh. They said it was safer than driving yourself. Which is True because there is nothing more stupid that a human being. Especially when they do not make a research about the statistics of tesla crash ratio versus normal car crash ratio Like yourself.
I remember how until like 2017, of your tesla has a broken door handle the car was totalled because getting replacement parts was loterally impoasible, especially fenders.
German ADAC just got a list of the MOST RELIABLE CARS on the German road. Tesla was almost at the TOP. It became 3th most reliable car on the German road.
@@lio1234234 If by not you mean to say, That for them to convey as a joke the car indeed failed on them when in truth it did not. Then yes you & I are in agreement. For you see, sarcasm is to say or express the opposite in hopes to be funny, to insult someone or to show irritation. Thus this would be sarcasm with a hint of good ol' dry British humor.
@@lorde0147 no its just fraud and lies. i remember that episode well, that bit wasn't even funny and they were ripping into tesla. im not a tesla fan but defamation and trying to destroy a company reputation for a "joke" isnt sarcasm. i like top gear but blindly defending this is not a good look
Sure they did. Why would the engineer leave the car there once he discovered Top Gear intended to lie about it? He would’ve immediately called Elon, and Elon would’ve taken the car back.
Do you think these big tv networks borrow a car like how a friend borrows a pen? Grow up man. When you don't understand something, ask questions, don't make it a conspiracy. Anyway, they'd have already signed contracts snd made the agreed upon transactions so he can't just take it back.
I think one of the issues that I constantly see is that they say on the top gear episode, the car broke down. That’s not what happened. They said that at the time, the Tesla roadster was set for 200kiles on a full charge, and that it only made it 55milea around their track. That’s not necessarily deceptive. The more power you demand from a battery, the faster it dies. Shit the same even happens on a gasoline engine. If I’m correct it’s one of the main reasons why they lost in court.
