Motor Trend's Kim Reynolds gets a very exclusive first drive in the all-new Tesla Model 3 with Chief Desinger Franz von Holzhausen!
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00:00 In our business there are exclusives and then there are exclusives and this is about as exclusive as it can get.
00:06 Morning. How you doing?
00:11 Good.
00:13 How you doing?
00:15 Good.
00:17 [Music]
00:44 Okay, here we go. This is it. This is the first mile.
00:50 First impression. I feel the road. Is this sort of a firmer, sporty suspension?
00:58 It's a more huddled suspension. This is our team.
01:02 Okay, so it's a sport-oriented feel to this car right off the bat.
01:06 I think what you'll notice right away is the direct.
01:10 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice torque.
01:12 The steering effort is a little light on the light side, which is fine.
01:15 So we have different settings.
01:17 Oh, you can change that.
01:18 So you can change the steering settings.
01:21 Oh, okay.
01:22 Standard mode.
01:23 Okay.
01:24 You can put it into sport and see if that feels a little.
01:25 Okay, yeah, I do feel the effort go up a bit.
01:27 A little more effort.
01:28 Yeah, that's very nice.
01:29 So you can kind of tune it to your feel.
01:31 Okay, and it obviously has the regen that Tesla has really popularized.
01:36 So you have a standard and a low regen setting.
01:39 And again, that torque is great.
01:40 So is this motor shared with any of the other variants?
01:45 It's not.
01:46 So it's a brand new motor?
01:47 Yeah.
01:48 Okay.
01:49 There's a nice bit of tremble through the steering, you know.
01:51 Just enough.
01:52 And that's good.
01:53 Yeah, it's exactly what you don't want.
01:55 Nothing.
01:56 You do want some vibration.
01:58 So the brake feel is very linear.
02:03 So the car, it feels nimble as heck.
02:06 I mean, it's great we selected this road because you wouldn't realize it.
02:09 Back there on Mulholland.
02:12 Because it really has a very nimble, quick-reacting feel about it.
02:18 It's really cool.
02:21 I have to tell you, this thing is really cool.
02:23 I came here expecting cool.
02:25 I got cool.
02:26 Really cool.
02:27 Fantastic cool.
02:28 Really cool.
02:30 For what you've created here.
02:31 Cool.
02:32 All right.
02:33 What I hope is that they fall in love with the car.
02:36 They realize that an electric vehicle is better than an internal combustion engine vehicle.
02:43 That those things become obvious with the drive, the ownership experience, and just the general usability of the car.
02:50 And that they love their car.
02:52 Tell their friends about it and get everybody into a more sustainable future.
02:57 future.
02:59 (upbeat music)