A funny artifact of Tesla's reaction to the NYT piece is that people are reviewing the Top Gear claims (this time with much more credibility lent to Top Gear).
Top Gear filmed themselves pushing a fully working vehicle, while pretending that it was dead. In court, they claimed they never actually said the vehicle was dead, and that what they did was merely for entertainment value.
There seriously cannot be any credibility lent here, regardless of anything else Top Gear did or did not do.
Didn't they (Top Gear) win the libel suit?
Edit: http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/02/23/tesla-libel... seems to indicate they did.