Top Gear is highly influential both in terms of viewing figures and general perception. Of all the people I know who saw the episode, they all had genuine reser

Top Gear is highly influential both in terms of viewing figures and general perception. Of all the people I know who saw the episode, they all had genuine reservations and believed it to be about accurate journalism, not comedy. Second, as another reply points out, they did not really point out genuine shortcomings but rather fabricated events and used strawmen. If you analyse existing usage of sports cars, you will probably find the vast majority are used for short and medium distance driving on the road, not cross-continent or highly intensive race track driving. Hence the design and marketing of the Tesla.