Top Gear Review

Background On Tuesday March 29 Tesla sued the BBC television programme “Top Gear” for libel and malicious falsehood. When Top Gear reviewed the Tesla Roadster, the episode that aired contained lies and misinformation about the Roadster’s performance, behaviour and reliability. Tesla reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored.

Appeal court dismisses claim that show damaged car's sales, after manufacturer gets into online spat with New York Times. By Josh Halliday

Andy Wilman, the executive producer of Top Gear, shares his thoughts on Tesla Motors’ libel lawsuit against the popular BBC program in this piece written for Jalopnik. You may know that Tesla has issued a writ against Top Gear for defamation and malicious falsehood over the road test that we broadcast of the Tesla Roadster…

A judge in London sends the Silicon Valley automaker Tesla home empty-handed for a second time.

Tesla Motors is claiming victory even though a United Kingdom appeals court dismissed a libel lawsuit from the automaker against the BBC show Top Gear.

A U.K. appeals judge watches the show and examines what a television viewer could reasonably take away and whether it's possible that one statement caused Tesla to lose millions of dollars in sales.

Electric car maker Tesla is suing U.K. hit TV show TopGear for libel and malicious falsehood, seeking to right the record about its Roadster electric sports car, which the company thinks was treated unfairly by the sometimes witty, sometimes boorish hosts of the show.

Tesla Motors' efforts to clear allegations of reduced range on its electric cars just took another hit. A British appeals court dismissed a libel lawsuit fi

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In a funny twist, one of the stars of an extremely popular car show (Top Gear) whose script smeared Tesla is now going electric. James May is getting a BMW i3.

Amidst the Tesla battery problem, comes news of a judgment from the UK courts again dismissing Tesla Motors' complaints and reiterating that Top Gear did nothing libelous or maliciously false in the program's review of the Tesla Roadster.

During episode seven of series 12, Clarkson presented a segment featuring the Tesla Roadster, including a test drive. The segment showed the car's provided batteries running flat after 88.5 kilometres (55.0 mi), with Clarkson claiming that the recharge would take 16 hours