Zenvo strikes back after a devastating Top Gear review
Posted on 20-02-2014 at 20:11 by ricardo – 55 Comments”
Zenvo hustle and bustle Jeremy Clarkson the keys of the 1104 horsepower ST1, in the hands, but the results of the videoreview were devastating. A PR nightmare of the worst kind. Zenvo now comes with their side of the story.
In the broadcast of last Sunday (TopGearS21E03) got the orange beast of Zenvo an extremely well-known Top Gear treatment. First was the car at full speed, the praised to heaven. What inlikken here, sharp joke about a Danish bias there. Halfway through, however, came the turnaround, where the negative aspects were highlighted. Jeremy calls the car ” a bit last week and vingerwijst to the conventional suspension, and wonder why someone this is a well-established supercar would choose, and then images follow a ST1 that flying off the track: the car is nearly roadless, with the traction control off, says Jezza.
Then follows again a kritieklijstje: the taillights filled with condensation, the rear brakes were fixed, and the link was broken. And after a reparatiesessie in Denmark went to the cooling fan piece, with a huge sea of flames to followed. Then if the Stig a lap around the track popping, where a time out was worse than the Ford Focus ST. The asphalt was wet.
Check below first, the review of TG, before the BBC him of YouTube kicks (alternative link HERE).
Zenvo turn back now. Not the Calimero-way such as Tesla that years back did after a onwelgevallige review about the Roadster, but with their side of the story. Comes:
“After the first visit, which burned the clutch after an hour of extreme drifting by Top Gear drivers. At the second visit [after the repair, ed.] took a faulty cooling fan flame after more than an hour of intensive high speed testing and 50 litres of fuel. The fire was traceable to a defect in the fan of an authorised parts supplier. After this incident, and test Zenvo Automotive all the fans more thoroughly before they are mounted.”
Mm. Somewhat weak to the supplier is to blame. But okay, which act.
“The car reached an unofficial top of 304 km/h, the highest speed on the straights at times. This information was not in the show shared. What is also not mentioned, is the acceleration time from 0 to 100 km/h in 2,69 seconds on damp tarmac. Instead, it took Top Gear a lap time with the Stig, put on a day where, in many parts of England, it was not recommended to drive, due to low temperature and extreme rainfall. The weather conditions and the amount of water on the track caused much less of a grip on the 345/30 ZR20 rear tires resulting in a lap time that does not do justice to the potential of the car in wet conditions.
Yeah. We read here especially a frantic attempt to a number of serious failures to spin. After all, most supercars get a similar treatment on the Top Gear tarmac.
Zenvo says have to look to a more realistic lap time to put down in dry conditions, so we are wondering if Top Gear on that offer takes effect. Finally, Zenvo that the car 802.000 euro cost, no 970.000 euro, as Clarkson claimed.
Calls you but: biased sensationalism of Top Gear, or has Jezza simply by a poor performance from the car on this way down to firebrands?
Gallery: Zenvo ST1
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