Elon Musk gave his brutally honest thoughts on Jeremy Clarkson after Top Gear stunt that infuriated him
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- Sep 11, 2024
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The Tesla takedown was recently revisited by Top Gear host Chris Harris, who more recently presented the show with Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff before it was 'rested' for the foreseeable following Flintoff's horror crash.
Appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Harris agreed with Rogan, saying that the show's producers would purposely 'reverse engineer an outcome' for presenters to carry out.
Advert Speaking out after Harris' comments, Clarkson rejected accusations that his Tesla test was fabricated.
"But then talk turned to the story that I wrote a road test of the first ever Tesla before I’d driven it. And that the breakdown we showed on television was fabricated," Clarkson wrote in his column for The Sun.
Jeremy Clarkson took the Tesla Roadster for a spin (BBC)
"Joe and Chris perpetuate the myth that my Tesla road test was unfair. On Top Gear we c*cked about and upset a lot of people over the years. But our road tests were always scrupulously fair."
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As for Musk, he filed a lawsuit against the BBC for negative publicity, but saw his case dismissed by a UK appeal court in 2013.
And speaking about the incident in 2013, while Musk said he was 'a great fan' of the BBC, he had some strong words about Clarkson.
"I was surprised to learn Top Gear was even on the BBC," he said on Newsnight.
"Clarkson's show is more about entertainment that it is about truth," he then said about the host-turned-farmer. "And I think most people realise that, but not everyone."
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Musk continued: "I've actually enjoyed a lot of his shows so it’s not as though I just hate Top Gear or anything. He can be very funny and irreverent but he does have a strong bias against electric cars and particularly he seems to hate American [cars].
"Like, his two pet peeves are American cars and electric cars," he added.
"And we’re an American electric car so we're in the worst possible situation for someone like Clarkson."
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