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Top Gear accused of favoring Porsche over Tesla

Porsche has not yet begun delivering its first Taycan units to customers, but if deliveries have not yet started, the controversy is raging again.
With only a few units available, whether prototypes more or less related to the series-produced vehicles, to be delivered to US customers from late 2019 and Europeans from 2020, Porsche began lending. Taycan Turbo S to selected media. This soon had the ability to raise some suspicion, not lacking those who accused the German brand of only lending Taycan to those who favored the model.
To accuse is easy, the hard thing is to prove that someone acted with intent, so it remained to demonstrate that Top Gear, a respected information medium, or not belonged to the British BBC, "stirred" the data collected during the comparison. And it didn't take long before DragTimes's Brooks Weisblat reviewed the Top Gear video and discovered gross errors.
So crass they led the English to readily admit that they used old test data, where the Model S was not fitted to the latest specs (Raven engine ahead), which made it slower. In a matter of seconds, credibility was called into question. Here are the two DragTimes videos that led Top Gear to admit the mistake.

After the start-up expert pointed out things like Top Gear did not use launch mode in Model S Performance (as it did in Taycan Turbo S), he made the measurements in range mode through video analysis only. also leads to the American car's battery not being preheated as was that of its German rival, as Elon Musk joined "the party", giving reason to Brooks Weisblat's analysis, renaming the English show "Low Gear" " And if Porsche is unaware of what happens to its Taycan, Tesla always knows every second what its vehicles do, even if at any given moment they are in launch mode or range mode.

Porsche has not yet begun delivering its first Taycan units to customers, but if deliveries have not yet started, the controversy is raging again.
With only a few units available, whether prototypes more or less related to the series-produced vehicles, to be delivered to US customers from late 2019 and Europeans from 2020, Porsche began lending. Taycan Turbo S to selected media. This soon had the ability to raise some suspicion, not lacking those who accused the German brand of only lending Taycan to those who favored the model.

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