This Yahoo story is worth reading just for the line, "I should really have sued him back, but I feared he’d call me a paedo."
I've changed the spelling of "paedo" on the grounds that Jeremy Clarkson and I are both British.
Was a bit surprised that British cave expert Vernon Unsworth who Musk labelled a “pedo guy” online after Unsworth helped rescue 12 boys trapped in a Thai cave in 2018 was unsuccessful in suing for defamation though - guess he wasn't powerful enough to put up a strong enough case.
Shame.
But a comment under the Yahoo story is pretty good too...
"99% of all Teslas made are still on the road. The other 1% made it home."
I've put that in quotes in case Elon thinks I came up with it.
It is titled, "BYD's bold plan to take on Mercedes, Ferrari and more"
To which my gut reaction was, "Then why does it look like a Mclaren?"
Not that I could read the article because it is hidden behind Autocar's paywall and I'm not paying £19.99 a month or £199 a year just to read some articles that would only be of interest to some people in the automotive industries.
Quite enjoyed this video from James May's YouTube Channel last week.
In it, James and Richard Hammond returned to Dunsfold to the abandoned portakabin complex that used to be the Top Gear production offices.
The abandonment does highlight what has happened to Top Gear since October 2018.
Now it looks like they will be doing something a bit similar for Prime with The Not Very Grand Tour.
Part of me doesn't want to watch it for the same reason I tend not to watch the "Best bits" or "Unseen footage" episodes of shows like Would I Lie to You?
And these usually contain both "best bits" and unseen footage.
But I've already seen the best bits.
And yet, I don't mind repeats.
Jeremy will only be appearing in the shown footage whereas James and Richard will be talking about it.
And taking the mickey.
So will I watch it?
Let's face it, I'd watch a knitting programme if those two were fronting it - so yes - and I'm not lying to you.
Just watched Robert Llewelyn reviewing another boring SUV.
A very big boring Chinese SUV.
And it's electric - at least in Australia and the UK it will be - they have a hybrid version in China which gives Robert an excuse to be snidey about fossil fuel burners.
Anyway, here's the video:
It's going to be a Deepal in Oz and a Changan over here - doesn't seem to be any logic in the naming. But it won't be anything in the US because they aren't getting it.
The video title is, "Why Is This Super Cheap Luxury SUV coming to OZ & UK but NOT USA?!?"
Despite the capitals and exclamation marks, they don't go on to answer the question.
But it's probably something to do with Elon not wanting the competition.
The stand-out bit of the video for me though was about four minutes in when Robert casually dropped in to the story that the car was recording and filming everything that was said in it and around it!
What!?
Someone in China is listening in to everything.
I'm hoping that this is just because it is a press car for the Australian launch and they are trying to gather as much insight and opinion as possible - and they must have been up front about it or he wouldn't have known about it.
But what if the Chinese government have this installed in all Chinese cars? Robert wasn't sure where the recording devices were. Do I need to take a closer look at my 5 year old Volvo? Although that was built in The US so hopefully not.
Well just to be on the safe side, that President Xi seems like a really decent chap.
