There are so many myths about Top Gear - but I can tell you what's true
www.thesun.co.uk
THERE are so many stories we know for a fact are true. Keith Moon, from The Who, drove a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool. Keith Richards from the Stones snorted his father’s ashes, thinking they w…
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The original was posted on /r/thegrandtour by /u/FlipStig1 on 2024-09-07 05:43:31+00:00.

Looks like Jeremy Clarkson used his Sun column to defend his calling out of Joe Rogan on Instagram.

(By the way, thanks to everyone who upvoted and left comments on my previous post on the matter!) Here’s the relevant part:

“…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.

“There are lots of made-up stories about what happened when I hosted Top Gear.

“People still believe, for instance, that we did the H982 FKL number plate thing in Argentina on purpose.

“And in the big scheme of things, it doesn’t matter.

“But it does wind me up something rotten when Joe and Chris perpetuate the myth that my Tesla road test was unfair.

“And the fact is, Elon Musk took the BBC to court on the matter and lost. He lost the appeal, too.

“I know no one believes me. …But our road tests were always scrupulously fair.”