Finally the man has spoken about the Tesla / Top Gear drama. After the Tesla Roadster received praise on Top Gear (while knowingly hating electric cars) praised this car more than I ever thought he would promote or sing automotive praise to an electric. Tesla got it’s electric blanket in a bunch and send out a PR saying Top Gear lied and misrepresenting it’s product.

Rachel Conrad from Tesla said this about the brake failure.

“The ‘brake failure’ Clarkson mentions was solely a blown fuse; a service technician replaced it and the Roadster was back up and running immediately.

“I can’t speculate as to why the good folks at Top Gear might have mischaracterised the blown fuse as a brake failure.”
Jeremy Clarkson replied with this.

“Nobody gives a flying **** how the brakes failed. Whether it was a blown fuse or not, they were still not working.”

Then Jeremy Clarkson also commented on the fact Tesla claims he defrauded the vehicle by showing it ran out of juice. Clarkson then said,

“We never said once that the car had run out of power. The car had to be pushed into the warehouse because you are not allowed to drive cars into a building.

“We calculated that it would have run out of power after 53 miles but they can’t argue with that because that is a fact.”

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