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Strawp

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in the 3 or 4 years i have seen the Tesla at Goodwood, it only just managed a single run up the hill this year and sat in the pits for every year previously.

it seems a tad unreliable.

If it was at Goodwood it wouldn't have been the finished product that rolled off the line this year. There hasn't been anything in the usual channels of any real-world Teslas breaking down.

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therealjohnpeat

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A fair bit of what happens on Top Gear is 'not entirely what it seems' - it's primarily an entertainment show and more popular as a result of it.

Anyone taking TG's "reviews" as buying advice is like someone taking Zero Punctuation as buying advice for games - regarless of the content, TG was a good thing for Tesla and their moaning about it is just MORE publicity (and a sign they're touchy about their car!!)

A LOT of cars breakdown on their track I imagine - they're treat pretty harshly. I used to know a press officer at BMW and he said the state some cars came back from reviewers was fairly shocking and TG was amongst the worst.

55 miles on a track would actually be pretty decent for an electric car tho - it's hardly intended to work there...

TG regularly gets into 'spats' with people too - Ultima make a mental V8 powered madmanwagon which DESTROYS anything TG have tested - but TG won't have it on the show for some reason (probably because a fibreglass kitcar blowing everything into the weeds isn't really very entertaining).

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/CARS/news/37372.html

It's time is astonishing tho - over FOUR SECONDS faster than the Gumpert - that's like a WEEK in racing terms...

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roskelld

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Vietnam Special is a 75 minute special apparently, a detiled synopsis is below

Really looking forward to this episode.

I did the same thing early this year, albeit from the top of Vietnam down.

It's an amazing journey, if not scary as fuck in some places. Ho Chi Minh is fucking terrifying the sheer number of other vehicles that you have to compete with.

There's only really two choices of road for a good part of the journey, I took the mountain pass, which is inland, as opposed to the more coastal route. I hope they take the same, the views are mind blowing and the curves of the empty roads are so nice to drive.

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Plus, it's great to take a break every now and then to play with some snotty nosed kids.

p.s The Helmet was the last in the shop and really wouldn't have been my first choice. I got the dirtiest face wearing it.

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DarthSquirrel

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http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/CARS/news/37372.html

It's time is astonishing tho - over FOUR SECONDS faster than the Gumpert - that's like a WEEK in racing terms...

Woah. There's a guy round the back of me who spends his weekends in his garage building one of those. A nice yellow one. He's almost finished it now but I didn't know what it was until i clicked that link. Any idea how much?

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Dandy_Sephy

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Because it's much easier to fill a car with petrol and they were making a point about the difficulty in, and time needed to charge it up. You can fill a car with petrol quite easily even if you break down on the side of the road. You can't charge the Tesla if you break down on the side of the road. Nothing would be proved by having or pretending a car run out of petrol during a test

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Dandy_Sephy

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It's misleading to suggest it won't go very far compared to a car? I understand that saying it ran out of juice on the track when it didn't is misleading, but I don't see how it affects the actual review or peoples impressions of the car (which ultimately is the only thing that is affected by it). I imagine plenty of petrol cars run out of juice during testing, but they aren't trying to prove a point with those.

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Professor Rob

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Nothing would be proved by having or pretending a car run out of petrol during a test

Nothing is proved by pretending the car ran out of charge when it didn't.

I don't disagree with the conclusions reached; I fully accept that battery-powered cars are still at the 'hopelessly impractical' stage. But I don't think it's right to state that something happened during the test that didn't actually happen.

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because it doesn't take HOURS to fill up a petrol car?

:blink:

It's misleading to claim that the car ran out of charge, when it hadn't run out of charge. It implies that the low-charge warnings were not functioning, which falsely suggests that the car is dangerous on the road.

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It's misleading to claim that the car ran out of charge, when it hadn't run out of charge. It implies that the low-charge warnings were not functioning, which falsely suggests that the car is dangerous on the road.

It IS dangerous. You can't hear it coming, unlike a combustion-engine-powered automobile.

:huge winky:

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JohnC

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It's misleading to suggest it won't go very far compared to a car? I understand that saying it ran out of juice on the track when it didn't is misleading, but I don't see how it affects the actual review or peoples impressions of the car (which ultimately is the only thing that is affected by it).

They went on about how Tesla say it will go for 200 miles (or whatever) between charges and then said it ran out after 55 (or whatever), saying that Tesla got their figures wrong. Which was a lie and very much affects peoples impression of the car.

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Hackign

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Through an Audi garage?

As in using my legs to physically take a shortcut through the carpack of an Audi garage (Garage being a place where a person may buy a car that they like if they bring the required finances)

And typos, the internet is full of them.

So fuck off you cocks. (Who apparently can't read anyway, I said "you", not "a")

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