{"id":47260,"date":"2011-04-01T19:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47260"},"modified":"2011-04-01T19:07:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:07:54","slug":"electric-sports-car-tesla-sues-bbc%e2%80%99s-top-gear-for-%e2%80%9clibel-and-malicious-falsehood%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47260","title":{"rendered":"Electric Sports Car &#8211; Tesla sues BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top Gear for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153libel and malicious falsehood\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tesla Motors has filed a lawsuit against the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top Gear television program for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153libel and malicious falsehood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The suit stems from a 2008 Top Gear episode that featured the Tesla Roadster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">During the episode in question, Top Gear\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jeremy Clarkson tested the Roadster on the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s test track. However, the Roadster didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand a chance, claims the lawsuit, as the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s script called for\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanenews.com\/tesla-sues-bbcs-top-gear-for-libel-and-malicious-falsehood.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Motors has filed a lawsuit against the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top Gear television program for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153libel and malicious falsehood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The suit stems from a 2008 Top Gear episode that featured the Tesla Roadster. During the episode in question, Top Gear\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jeremy Clarkson tested the Roadster on the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s test track. However, the Roadster didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47261,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47260\/revisions\/47261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}