Nissan Battles Top Gear
Nissan PR is firing back against comments made by Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson on their new line up.
BBC’s Top Gear is making enemies of Nissan, after the hosts’ typically brutally honest opinions of the Japanese auto maker’s new model range. Clarkson said it was all so “boring.”
Nissan PR chief Tom Barnard complained that Clarkson’s review contained “inaccuracies”, “The presenters’ suggestion that the Leaf battery would be scrap after three years is plain wrong,” Barnard wrote.
“Other than that part we actually quite liked the review. They said lots of good things about the Leaf. But other media – who love to hate Top Gear it seems – leapt on this and said we had been moaning about the whole feature. There’s a reason we feel passionately about the Leaf,” he wrote. “We feel we need to be first with EV technology, even if it means we have to take a few punches at the beginning.”
Source: Autoblog UK
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