You can legitimately hate them because you don't like Top Gear or rich people. But here, May is just pointing out a very stupid design flaw. Calling a mechanic won't make the problem go away. He spent an hour looking into the problem, and it's an education for fellow Tesla owners. Is that a crime?

I guest that Tesla Roadster episode especially pissed you off? They're petrolheads, of course they bash the Roadster in those early days of EV to justify the V8 and V12s for their vroom vroom thrills. It's called TV antics (deceptive? Yes). Most have come around to recognize EV is the future. You think every races/segments in Top Gear are unscripted? Come on... Top Gear's been just pure entertainment and no reporting every since Clarkson took over the rein.

Why does James May (or anyone else for that matter) have a
£100k car standing parked for months? A: hes got too much money and cars, thats why. its obscene. if he doesnt drive the fucking thing, sell it, rent it out or better yet, loan it out to someone in need. he'll be helping someone, saving the environment, and get rid of his stupid battery problem, which, if he can afford to have a tesla sitting unused and charged in a garage, he could afford a mechanic to fix for him.

The top gear assholes succeeds to disappoint again, like the time they faked problems with the tesla roadster to give it a thumbs down.

Fuck off , James May.

SUCCESS!!!!
Cars for Mars is up.
Nicely done, the display on the roadsters dash reads "Don't panic"
*promote

Wifi traffic lights communicating with each other?

That sounds like very interesting technology.

I like it.

>> ^Yogi:

If you wanna go offroad you get the defender, the BMW 5 is just sad.


Most people who own cayennes wouldn't know off road it bit them in the ass. What they want is a big, powerful, luxury family car. I picked a 5 series as an example, but you could have a merc or whatever else fits in that category.

Either way, the point is that cayenne is an expensive "worst of all worlds" car.
A 5 series is a better sedan, almost anything is a better offroader (I'd actually go for a Hilux over a defender) and there are plenty of cheap nippy roadsters that will handle infinitely better.

his peterbuilt roadster is incredible looking

>> ^zombieater:
Why do we have gas-powered vehicles again?


Because they're loud and smelly, and Americans like old, loud, and smelly things.

OMFG! I have now officially lost all respect for that show.

A spokeswoman for the popular motoring show confirmed to Register Hardware - as Tesla's head of spin, Rachel Konrad, recently claimed - throughout the test, the show was never without a working Tesla.

"They never had to push a car off the track because of lack of charge or a fault," Konrad wrote earlier this week. "It’s unclear why they were pushing one into a garage in the video; I’ll refrain from speculating about their motives."

Now we can reveal the answer: according to the Top Gear spokeswoman, the tested Tesla was filmed being pushed into the shed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Top Gear, Tesla, electric, battery, roadster, Jeremy Clarkeson' to 'Top Gear, Tesla, electric, battery, roadster, Jeremy Clarkson' - edited by rasch187

I grew up driving automatics but I buy myself six-speeds now. It has made be a safer and more conscious driver, while making driving so much more enjoyable. I feel much more engaged with my driving and suffer way fewer lapses of attention. Right now I drive a 2009 Mazda 3, probably will go for the RX-8 next unless I can affort a Tessla Roadster in 3 years.

I'll go back to automatics if I ever have kids, so that I can have my shifting hand free to cuff them in the head. Little punks!

Kinda interesting they got the presenter that almost ended up in one to do the segment on the sexy wheelchair.

A lot of people aren't realizing this is just a test bed. You'll probably see electric cars soon that "transform" from the parking size and ability of the Smart Cars into the highway speed and stability of the Tesla Roadster.

...but you just know Stephen Hawking will get one with 26" rims and spinners, cuz he's a pimp.

ARG! WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!! and have been since 2006
(but in the intarwebz age nobody keeps track of things for more than 3 months)

Click here now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
and then search "Tesla Roadster" on VideoSift for actual test drive reviews.

- Acceleration time: 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds. Some prototypes and initial production 2008 Roadsters were limited to 5.7 second 0–60 mph acceleration.[7]
- Top speed: electronically limited at 125 mph (201 km/h)
- Range: 221 miles (356 km) on the EPA combined cycle

The car WORKS NOW and is AVAILABLE NOW,
not in some distant corporate controlled hydrogen fantasyland future,
the only drawback is the price tag, they've aimed the initial runs at the high end market to generate buzz.

Now that gas is +$4/gal they need to do another round of marketing blitz and lower the cost to average suburbanite and working class folks.

"that guy that bult the one in Cali"

those guys being Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who founded
Tesla Motors in San Carlos, CA in 2003 and started production in 2006.

Tesla Roadster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster

- Acceleration time: 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds. Some prototypes and initial production 2008 Roadsters were limited to 5.7 second 0–60 mph acceleration.[7]
- Top speed: electronically limited at 125 mph (201 km/h)
- Range: 221 miles (356 km) on the EPA combined cycle

Jay Leno, car collector and auto engineering geek, gave it high marks so it must be good!

>> ^southblvd:
hell yeah
electric motors have instant torque
can't wait until sports cars have them


I guess you haven't heard of the Tesla Roadster. Look it up, it's a very impressive vehicle.