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Old 11-21-2010, 02:01 PM  
2MuchMark
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That show is complete bullshit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...a-electric-car

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It was billed by Jeremy Clarkson as the ultimate test for an electric car – a drag race against a Lotus Elise on BBC2's Top Gear. And it was a test that the £92,000 Tesla appeared to fail after it dramatically slowed down on the show's test track and was pushed into a garage to await charging.

But it has since emerged that the Tesla, which can be powered from an ordinary domestic plug, did not run out of electricity.

The car's California-based manufacturer said that the charge on neither of the two Teslas used in the Top Gear test fell below 20%.

The BBC today denied it had misled viewers, saying that the programme had "at no time" claimed that the car had run out of power. Programme-makers instead showed it slowing down to illustrate what would happen when the car did run out of charge.
They even video-taped themselves pushing a car that had nothing at all wrong with it. Fuck Top Gear, its piece of shit host Jeremy Clarkson, and its whore producers. These assholes almost put a good company with a great product out of business. Fuck Top Gear.
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