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I'm a fan of Top Gear, but their mocking of the electric cars was always staged and unfair.

by avrionov 5y ago

throwawayboise 5y ago
Everything on Top Gear is staged. Whether it's unfair depends on your point of view I guess.
oh_sigh 5y ago
It was funny to see the transition gear heads went through with electric vehicles. 15 years ago they loved to race and had a "fastest wins" mindset. But now that their $300k ICE cars are blown out of the water by a $50k consumer car, it's now "your car needs to be LOUD and fast"
- Hamuko 5y ago
  >But now that their $300k ICE cars are blown out of the water by a $50k consumer car The Tesla Model 3 Performance goes around the Nordschleife in pretty much the same time as a 2005 Volkswagen Golf GTI. "Blown out of the water" seems a tad bit generous.
  - oh_sigh 5y ago
    Maybe it is just the gearheads in my area of the northeast, but no one drove on tracks and everyone wanted to drag race down the highway after meeting up in a grocery store parking lot late at night.
  - simondotau 5y ago
    Source? Is the Golf GTI stock or modified?
    - Hamuko 5y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IHb8RFV_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IHb8RFV_g https://fastestlaps.com/tests/92pk54hhz8sl https://fastestlaps.com/tests/92pk54hhz8sl You could probably try to push a faster lap out of the Model 3 if you dare. However it seems like the brakes are a bottleneck, so emphasis on the word "dare". >A total of two laps, less than half of the first lap of the brake alarm temperature is too high, but also can feel the obvious thermal attenuation
lmm 5y ago
Seemed perfectly fair to me. If the car's range is 200 miles then a consumer-oriented review should point out that the range is a lot shorter than you might expect, and if you have a trusted source for that figure there's nothing to be gained from actually driving it 200 miles to test that point before illustrating it on screen.

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I'm a fan of Top Gear, but their mocking of the electric cars was always staged and unfair.

by avrionov 5y ago

I'm a fan of Top Gear, but their mocking of the electric cars was always staged and unfair.

throwawayboise 5y ago
Everything on Top Gear is staged. Whether it's unfair depends on your point of view I guess.
oh_sigh 5y ago
It was funny to see the transition gear heads went through with electric vehicles. 15 years ago they loved to race and had a "fastest wins" mindset. But now that their $300k ICE cars are blown out of the water by a $50k consumer car, it's now "your car needs to be LOUD and fast"
- Hamuko 5y ago
  >But now that their $300k ICE cars are blown out of the water by a $50k consumer car The Tesla Model 3 Performance goes around the Nordschleife in pretty much the same time as a 2005 Volkswagen Golf GTI. "Blown out of the water" seems a tad bit generous.
  - oh_sigh 5y ago
    Maybe it is just the gearheads in my area of the northeast, but no one drove on tracks and everyone wanted to drag race down the highway after meeting up in a grocery store parking lot late at night.
  - simondotau 5y ago
    Source? Is the Golf GTI stock or modified?
    - Hamuko 5y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IHb8RFV_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IHb8RFV_g https://fastestlaps.com/tests/92pk54hhz8sl https://fastestlaps.com/tests/92pk54hhz8sl You could probably try to push a faster lap out of the Model 3 if you dare. However it seems like the brakes are a bottleneck, so emphasis on the word "dare". >A total of two laps, less than half of the first lap of the brake alarm temperature is too high, but also can feel the obvious thermal attenuation
lmm 5y ago
Seemed perfectly fair to me. If the car's range is 200 miles then a consumer-oriented review should point out that the range is a lot shorter than you might expect, and if you have a trusted source for that figure there's nothing to be gained from actually driving it 200 miles to test that point before illustrating it on screen.