CALLING ELON'S BLUFF

Remember his musings on Catherine the Great shagging a horse? A personal fave. Or his April fool joke claiming his (publicly listed) car company had gone totally bankrupt? Then there was the whole ‘paedo’ debacle… that was a low point. Elon Musk’s Twitter feed is wildly unpredictable at best and a catalogue of PR blunders at worst. It’s also indicative of a man with a limited set of social skills. I was three-back for his keynote at the Model Y reveal last month and witnessed some moves that made the Maybot look like a slickly choreographed routine. Don’t get me wrong – Tesla’s decade-long journey he was recounting was enthralling, but the delivery was more than a bit #accidentalpartridge.

I digress. Our mission here is to salvage some sanity from his 140-character ramblings, because in May last year he necked a whole bottle of brave pills and took aim at a pillar of the fast-car community. He bad-mouthed the BMW M3.

This is the frontline for petrolheads’ affections. We know electric has been making a mockery of petrol in a straight line for a while, but if, for the same amount of cash, EVs can turn as well as go, complete a lap faster and be more fun while