Tesla owner reviews the 2023 Tesla Model Y Performance (inc 0-100km/h, autonomy & track mode)

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Why I wouldn't review the Tesla Model Y Performance: This is a VERY detailed review of the 2023 Tesla Model Y Performance. It has just launched in Australia and as a Model Y owner I wanted to give you an objective review so you can get a better understanding of whether you should buy it or not.  Hardness tester, noise and lane keeping results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  More Tesla content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/tesla More Tesla Model Y content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/tesla/model-y  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 01:09 Interior 06:22 Infotainment 09:45 Safety tech 17:42 Practicality 20:36 Charging 27:24 On the Road 28:50 Driver aids 39:06 Performance 41:09 Verdict 46:32  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #tesla #modely #review

Transcript

00:00 G'day, I'm Paul.

00:01 So I own a Tesla Model Y.

00:03 They've just launched this,

00:05 which is the performance version.

00:06 So it's been available overseas for a while now,

00:08 but it is new to Australia

00:10 and it's now joining the base Model Y.

00:12 In addition to the long range in the lineup,

00:15 I thought, let's have a drive of it,

00:16 see what it's like from a Model Y owner's point of view

00:19 and whether it is worth actually upgrading.

00:21 This also has a new comfort suspension

00:23 that was fitted to these after I got mine delivered.

00:26 So I'll be really keen to see

00:27 what that's like to drive as well.

00:28 This competes with things like the Kia EV6 GT

00:32 and the Ioniq 5N, which will be launched later this year.

00:36 It has kind of been unique in this segment

00:38 as a performance SUV

00:40 that is now sort of joined by other brands as well.

00:42 It's priced at a little under $95,000,

00:45 but if that's too expensive,

00:46 the whole range kicks off at just under 70 grand.

00:49 Today, we're gonna do a detailed review of the Blue Rocket.

00:52 If you do want to skip ahead to other parts of this review,

00:55 you can use the time codes on the screen,

00:56 or if you're on YouTube,

00:57 you can scroll down and use the chapters below.

00:59 And if you haven't done so already,

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01:08 Okay, so let's start with the exterior.

01:12 This is available in five different colours.

01:13 All but white is going to cost you extra,

01:16 with red being the most expensive colour.

01:18 I really like this blue.

01:19 It looks great in person,

01:20 especially on these black wheels as well.

01:23 I think it looks really nice.

01:24 In terms of the visual differences,

01:26 you can actually get the base model Y in Australia

01:28 with the 20-inch alloy wheels

01:29 that look very similar to this.

01:30 So sometimes when you do spot these on the road,

01:33 just because it has this style of wheel,

01:35 it doesn't mean that it is the performance.

01:36 You can tell the performance aside from the others

01:38 'cause it's got dual motor on the back with an underline.

01:40 You also have red brakes here as well.

01:42 Terms of the rest of the design,

01:44 Australia's lagging behind the rest of the world

01:46 at the moment, and I don't know why,

01:47 but Tesla is actually removing parking sensors

01:50 on the front and the rear of their cars,

01:52 and instead relying only on Tesla Vision

01:55 to process all of your parking distances.

01:57 So far, the results of that have been pretty terrible.

01:59 A guy in the UK published a video,

02:01 an independent guy published a video

02:04 about how bad the parking sensors are under Vision.

02:06 The good news, though, is that Tesla

02:08 obviously updates its software very regularly,

02:10 so it means that that stuff should improve over time,

02:13 but ultimately, I don't know why

02:14 they didn't just stick with these.

02:15 These work perfectly fine, and they have for years.

02:18 In terms of the rest of the design,

02:19 it's all pretty straightforward down the front.

02:20 There you've got the Tesla logo up the top there.

02:23 You've got this lower section here for cooling,

02:25 and then also the headlights.

02:27 So they are full LED headlights.

02:29 They are auto high beam.

02:30 That function, certainly in my Model Y,

02:33 just doesn't work at all, and it's pretty frustrating,

02:35 'cause often it'll blind drivers in high beam

02:38 when they're approaching you.

02:39 Sometimes it won't switch the high beams on

02:41 when there's no one in front of you,

02:42 and then I guess the most frustrating part about it

02:45 is that if you do have autopilot set at night,

02:47 it defaults to automatic high beams,

02:49 and because it doesn't work very well,

02:51 you kind of just don't end up using autopilot at night,

02:53 'cause you don't wanna blind other drivers.

02:55 This actual cluster, though,

02:56 has functionality for matrix LEDs,

02:59 so they've got the whole setup there that they need.

03:01 I think it's just a software limitation at the moment,

03:02 and hopefully something they can roll out pretty soon.

03:05 Let's whip around to the side here.

03:08 By the way, throughout this review,

03:09 I'm gonna sprinkle in some stuff about my ownership,

03:12 and what it's like, and how it should compare

03:14 to your upcoming ownership.

03:16 Tesla is upgrading the camera quality in these as well,

03:20 so it's going from a camera that I think

03:21 was under two megapixels to one that's around five megapixels,

03:24 so it'll mean better processing for the car's computers,

03:28 and also better recording for things like sentry footage,

03:30 which I'll run you through later on.

03:31 Down the side here, you've got 21-inch alloy wheels,

03:34 and they're on a pretty sporty tire,

03:36 so this car has a set of Pirelli P Zeros on it.

03:39 I think I've seen other cars with Pilot Sports.

03:41 You can tell the performance aside from others

03:43 with these red brakes, so up the front here,

03:45 it's a four-piston caliper on a 355-mil rotor.

03:49 This is a Brembo brake.

03:51 The rears used to be Brembo as well,

03:53 and I'll explain what has changed over there

03:55 in just a second.

03:56 I really do like this wheel design, though.

03:57 That matte finish looks sensational.

04:00 Just be careful of curbs, though,

04:01 because if you do gutter-ash these,

04:03 there really isn't much clearance there.

04:05 You're going to absolutely destroy them,

04:06 but they look fantastic there in person.

04:08 So, a little camera here for your side camera.

04:10 There's also an indicator built into there as well.

04:13 Up the top here, you'll notice there is no indicator

04:15 in this wing mirror like they do in a lot of other cars.

04:16 There's also no camera under there as well,

04:19 because this doesn't have a 360 camera,

04:21 which is a little bit disappointing in my opinion,

04:23 given most other cars in this price bracket

04:25 do have that technology.

04:27 The door handles, I've talked about this

04:29 in other Tesla products as well,

04:30 but you push that and then pull the door handle,

04:33 and that opens the car.

04:34 I like the fact that this is all black around here as well.

04:37 Really gives it a nice sort of covert design.

04:40 Camera built into here as well.

04:41 This is also where you tap the key

04:43 when you lock and unlock the car.

04:45 Based on my ownership experience, though,

04:47 I don't think I even know where my key card is.

04:50 I just use the phone to unlock the car all the time.

04:52 So, that's where you tap it.

04:53 Privacy glass, you get a full glass roof as well.

04:56 Now, the rear brakes, let me run you through these.

04:59 So, Tesla did a bit of a dodgy.

05:01 So, they used to have Brembo front and rear brakes.

05:04 Now, they've gone down the path

05:05 of a non-Brembo brake at the rear.

05:07 As a result of that, they've put this dress cover over it

05:10 to make it look like the old one,

05:11 but it is actually different.

05:12 Not that big of a deal, given with EVs,

05:14 they're gonna be doing a lot of regen,

05:16 and most of your braking is through the front axle anyway.

05:19 So, not the end of the world,

05:20 but yeah, a little bit frustrating.

05:22 Okay, so come around to the back of the car with me.

05:24 So, around the back here, sorry the car's so dirty,

05:26 it was raining this morning.

05:27 You have full LED taillights.

05:30 This is the mention that I made earlier

05:32 of that red underline on dual motor.

05:34 That gives you an idea

05:35 that this is in fact the performance variant.

05:36 You get this carbon, I don't know if it's real carbon,

05:40 but carbon-esque boot lip on the back there.

05:43 And then the rest is sort of pretty straightforward.

05:45 If you do fit a tow bar, this section here pops out,

05:48 and that's where your tow bar sits.

05:49 It has a brake towing capacity of 1600 kilograms,

05:53 and then you have that lower diffuser down there as well.

05:55 So, let me know what you reckon

05:57 about this Model Y performance.

05:59 So, if you have a look at something like a Kia EV6 GT,

06:01 it kind of looks the same as the rest of the EV6 range.

06:04 That's what Tesla's done here with the Model Y.

06:06 It kind of just looks like any other Model Y,

06:07 unless you know exactly what you're looking for.

06:10 I think the Ioniq 5N will look different,

06:12 so that they've gone down the path

06:13 of giving it a bit more sort of substance and presence.

06:16 So, I'll be keen to see what that finally looks like,

06:18 but let me know what you reckon

06:19 about the Model Y performance

06:20 down in the comments section below.

06:22 Okay, so we are inside the Model Y performance.

06:26 I'd start off with the key at this point,

06:28 but there is no key.

06:29 It actually all just runs through your phone,

06:31 and I'm gonna quickly just mention

06:33 just how good this app is.

06:35 So, I have a Ford Ranger Raptor,

06:36 and we've got our Model Y.

06:38 The Ford app, in comparison to the Tesla app, is terrible.

06:41 Like, anything I do on the Ford app

06:42 takes forever to get to the car.

06:44 With the Tesla app, I can just literally press a button here

06:49 and it will happen immediately.

06:50 So, for example, watch this.

06:52 You've got that on pause.

06:53 I'll hit play.

06:55 Starts like immediately after.

06:57 Volume.

06:58 (upbeat music)

07:00 Like, it is just an unreal setup,

07:02 and it means that when you do come to the car to unlock it,

07:05 you literally grab the door handle,

07:06 it unlocks the car immediately.

07:08 There's no waiting around.

07:09 In terms of other functions of the app,

07:11 you have the ability to look at the live camera view.

07:12 So, when sentry mode is running,

07:14 you can actually see what's happening

07:16 at the front, back, and sides of the car.

07:18 In addition to that, you can control everything from the app

07:21 from opening and closing the car,

07:22 giving people permission to drive the car.

07:25 Even though they don't have the key,

07:26 you can set a pin to drive the car.

07:28 Open and close the door, honk the horn, flash the lights,

07:31 set all your charging speeds.

07:33 You can even send navigation destinations to the car.

07:36 So, from Google Maps, I can basically

07:38 send a destination to the car.

07:40 So, the second I get in, it's navigating to that location.

07:43 You can schedule your charging.

07:45 You can also set things like speed limits here,

07:47 valet mode, and then you can also buy

07:50 some of the upgrades for the car here as well.

07:52 So, it is an excellent app,

07:54 and this is probably one of my favorite features of the car.

07:57 The rest of this stuff is pretty cool,

07:58 but this app really sets this vehicle apart

08:01 from anything else on the road.

08:02 It is amazing.

08:03 So, I'll put that down.

08:05 Let's talk about some of the materials they use here.

08:08 So, in our first Tesla, we had a Model 3 Performance.

08:12 We went with a white interior.

08:13 I liked it.

08:14 The seats were actually pretty easy to keep clean,

08:15 but I would have preferred this open-pore woodgrain trim.

08:18 The white just gets this sort of cheap-looking stuff

08:20 that sits around here that is white.

08:22 This setup is much better with the black seats

08:24 because you get the open-pore woodgrain,

08:25 and to me, it looks just a little bit nicer.

08:27 The materials around the cabin

08:29 have improved significantly as well.

08:30 So, throwing back to our Model 3 Performance,

08:32 it had a sort of piano black finish,

08:34 and it was very hard to keep clean.

08:36 It scratched really easily.

08:37 They did away with that and went down the path

08:39 of this matte finish.

08:40 You can even see here with these charging pads for the phone,

08:43 these have like an Alcantara trim on them as well.

08:45 So, really like the way that looks.

08:47 All of this stuff here is soft to the touch,

08:50 even though you're not gonna be touching this all that often,

08:51 but that's soft to the touch as well.

08:53 So, all of that stuff is really great,

08:55 and it looks and feels nice and premium.

08:58 What about your build quality?

08:59 So, this car, I've sort of poked around it,

09:02 and the build quality is excellent.

09:05 Our car has had no issues with build quality either.

09:07 I think those days are behind Tesla.

09:09 They're now building cars that are really well assembled

09:11 and that don't really have the dramas they used to have

09:14 when they started doing all of this.

09:15 So, I think that is all gone.

09:17 What about our door slam?

09:18 So, this is one of the things I love about the car,

09:21 'cause it doesn't have the frame around the door.

09:23 Then when you do close it,

09:24 it's got a bit of a tinny sound to it.

09:27 It sounds a little bit cheap,

09:28 so it's probably something that hopefully

09:30 one day they can improve.

09:31 In terms of actually opening and closing the door,

09:33 you have a button up the top here that releases the door.

09:35 Then you have an emergency release there as well to open it

09:38 if you do ever lose power to the car.

09:40 But there is a slight problem with the second row

09:43 that I'll run you through in just a moment.

09:45 Okay, let's talk infotainment.

09:47 It's pretty much the only electronic thing

09:49 to talk about here,

09:50 because everything is controlled here on the screen

09:53 or on the steering wheel.

09:54 So, this will probably be the detail overload,

09:57 but I'll just run you through a lot of this stuff

09:59 and what I appreciate as functions of the car.

10:02 So, here on the sort of default home screen,

10:04 you have your satellite navigation.

10:07 So, this uses Google Maps,

10:08 and you can see here that you can go satellite overlays.

10:11 You can also include traffic or exclude traffic,

10:15 depending on where you are.

10:16 And then if you zoom in,

10:17 you kind of get more detail in terms of where you are

10:20 and what's sort of happening around you.

10:22 You can then hit this button here as well

10:24 that immediately tells you where the superchargers are.

10:27 It's worth keeping in mind as well

10:29 that it doesn't always just show you Tesla superchargers.

10:32 So, you can actually see other brands in here as well.

10:35 It sort of varies in terms of what it'll show you,

10:39 depending on a set of criteria that Tesla has.

10:42 And you can also set the different charge speeds

10:43 you wanna see here as well.

10:45 So, you can see how sort of effective that is.

10:47 And then I'll route you through to the supercharger.

10:49 If you do actually select a faster DC charger,

10:53 this will start preheating the battery on your journey

10:55 as well, so it can charge a little bit quicker as it goes,

10:58 which I'm a big fan of.

10:59 In terms of navigation and stuff,

11:01 it is very quick and easy and just works.

11:05 So, you put in the destination,

11:07 whether it's an address or a place,

11:09 it'll find it and then it'll navigate to there.

11:11 If you do need to charge along the way,

11:12 it will tell you where you need to go to charge.

11:15 I love this as well.

11:16 So, profiles.

11:18 Because I own a Tesla, it shows up here my profile.

11:22 And this profile is actually synced to our other car.

11:25 So, when I select that, it will recall every other setting

11:28 that I have in our other car.

11:30 So, it means that I can switch between different cars,

11:33 even if they're not my own, sign into my profile,

11:35 and then it will bring up all of those settings just for me,

11:37 which I think is pretty cool.

11:38 This little thing up here indicates

11:40 that sentry mode's running.

11:41 So, that's the feature that will basically record around you

11:44 if it detects an impact or motion around the car.

11:47 I love it because if someone runs into you

11:49 while you're not there, it'll record it all

11:50 to the USB stick that sits inside the glove box.

11:53 So, it's there forever.

11:54 And it means that you have evidence if anything goes wrong.

11:58 It's also a dash cam function too.

12:00 Once you've done driving,

12:01 you can actually pull up all of that footage as well

12:03 and download it if you need to.

12:06 Other functions you have here,

12:08 they store all of your favorites down at the bottom.

12:10 You can adjust the order of these as well.

12:13 But only through just the audio system.

12:14 You have Spotify, and you basically get

12:17 as part of a premium package,

12:19 which you have to pay, I think it's around $10 a month

12:21 for you get access to Spotify.

12:23 And that means you can listen to anything you want,

12:26 basically, you just search for it,

12:27 start playing it, and away you go.

12:29 In terms of other audio sources,

12:30 you have Bluetooth radio, which has FM and DAB digital radio.

12:34 You have karaoke, Tidal, TuneIn,

12:36 and now Apple Music as well.

12:38 There is no Apple CarPlay or Android Auto,

12:40 which I'm a little bit miffed by.

12:42 I reckon I just need to add that in

12:43 because I use things like Waze,

12:44 and it's just much easier to do on Apple CarPlay

12:47 than it is on here.

12:48 So, if we flick down over here to that full menu,

12:51 that's where you access the dash cam,

12:52 so you can start recalling footage from around you.

12:55 You can see this is us right now.

12:58 And then before the car was plugged up to the charger,

13:01 you can also then pull up all your Sentry Mode stuff as well.

13:04 In here as well, you're gonna find your energy maps.

13:07 So, this is a really sort of fascinating feature

13:10 because what it does is it tells you

13:12 how much energy you've consumed

13:15 and how much it predicted you would consume.

13:18 So, it's saying here that we used 11 kilometres less

13:20 than the trip projection,

13:22 simply because we were able to optimise things

13:24 like driving and climate.

13:25 Whereas if you are driving up a hill, for example,

13:28 if I drive from Melbourne to Ballarat,

13:30 it's an elevation change that goes up.

13:32 You see here that it eats into your driving range

13:35 and it means that you're actually using more energy

13:38 than the car is saying that you're using.

13:40 So, I think this is an interesting feature.

13:42 It's a bit sort of pointless

13:44 if you're chewing through too much energy

13:46 because ultimately you'll find out about it after

13:48 and there's not really a great deal you can do about it.

13:50 So, in addition to that, down here, you've got Calendar,

13:53 which you can sync with your phone messages.

13:56 That functionality and the voice recognition functionality

13:59 really doesn't work very well.

14:00 It just has no understanding of what you're saying.

14:03 So, often when you ask it to do something,

14:05 it'll just do the opposite of what you think it's gonna do.

14:07 You then have other features that, to be honest,

14:09 I don't really use as an owner.

14:11 So, a lot of people say,

14:12 "Well, you use these while you're charging,"

14:14 but I just plug the car in at home

14:15 so I don't really sit there watching things,

14:17 but you can do Netflix, Disney, YouTube, Twitch,

14:20 and there's tutorials there,

14:22 and then you have games as well that you can play

14:24 while you're sitting inside the car,

14:25 and then other silly features like Fart Modes

14:28 and all this other stuff.

14:30 So, that is where you access those functions.

14:33 And outside of that, you have a web browser built into here.

14:35 It's not the best browser 'cause it's a bit slow and clunky,

14:37 so it doesn't really work that well.

14:39 And the rest of the functions here I've already spoken about.

14:42 I know I've spoken a lot here,

14:43 but I'll just run you through the last sort of basics.

14:45 When you are driving, you'll see here

14:46 that this display changes a little bit.

14:48 It'll show what's going on around us.

14:50 Can also switch between percentages

14:52 and driving range up at the top there.

14:54 Climate control functions are all done

14:56 through this screen here.

14:58 A lot of people have complained about

15:00 adjustment of air vents and that it is fiddly,

15:03 but to be honest, you adjust them once when you get the car

15:06 and you never really touch them again,

15:08 so that's not really something

15:09 I've had too much of a drama with.

15:11 You then have other features for your climate controls,

15:13 such as keeping the climate running, overheat protection.

15:16 You have Dog Mode, Camp Mode as well,

15:18 and then you can adjust front and rear climate.

15:20 You have heated seats, front two seats,

15:22 and also all three rear seats and the steering wheel as well.

15:25 So yeah, it is a pretty awesome setup there

15:29 and all sort of fairly straightforward to use.

15:31 I don't love the fact that it is quite fiddly

15:33 to use while you're driving,

15:34 and we'll run through that when we do go for a drive.

15:36 I'll give you an example of some of that stuff.

15:39 And then finally, I promise,

15:41 is all of the settings for the car,

15:43 which you can change through here.

15:45 So you can sort of go through

15:46 and adjust everything as you go.

15:48 Now, the last thing I wanna show you

15:50 is something I literally only just stumbled across last night

15:53 and just from an engineer and tech point of view,

15:56 I reckon it is bloody cool.

15:57 So if you go down here to Software

16:00 and you push and hold this on Dual Motor,

16:04 it comes up asking for an access code.

16:06 And if you type in Service,

16:08 it enters the car's service mode.

16:12 Once it's in that mode, you get some incredible stats.

16:15 So you can see the vehicle's VIN, odometer reading,

16:18 the firmware that it's running and that type of thing.

16:20 But in here, you can just do

16:22 a stack of really fascinating things.

16:25 I love this.

16:26 If I go down to the thermal controls,

16:29 have a look at this.

16:30 How cool is that?

16:31 So it's basically now telling us

16:33 while the cooling system is running

16:34 how all of the interior components are operating,

16:38 the temperatures, what the compressor's doing.

16:41 And if you go over here to the refrigerant system,

16:43 you can see it all moving around the car there.

16:46 Coolant system as well.

16:49 It is seriously cool.

16:50 And then you go over here to charging.

16:51 You can actually do a battery test

16:53 to see what your 12 volts

16:55 and your high voltage battery is like.

16:57 You can get a better idea of how healthy it all is.

17:00 Just a really great setup.

17:02 And I love the fact that as an owner,

17:03 you can actually play with some of this stuff

17:05 and get a better idea of it.

17:06 It is obviously designed here just for the service personnel.

17:10 And if you do play with anything here,

17:12 you might break stuff.

17:13 But I just love the fact that you can play with this stuff

17:15 if you do want to.

17:17 I'll also just quickly point out the sound system as well.

17:20 Yeah, I test a lot of cars

17:21 and this is well and truly one of the best

17:24 standard sound systems you will hear in a new car today.

17:27 It is absolutely unreal.

17:28 So you have 13 speakers, one subwoofer, two amplifiers.

17:33 I get some proper stuff.

17:34 So when you do crank the beats,

17:35 it is quite an immersive experience.

17:37 So really big fan of that.

17:39 And if you are a fan of your audio,

17:40 you're gonna love the sound system as well.

17:42 Let's talk safety tech.

17:43 So Tesla has done away with radar

17:46 and now uses just Tesla Vision,

17:48 which is all the camera systems.

17:50 I've gotta be honest, it doesn't really work that well

17:54 in the sense that when you're using cruise control,

17:57 which is now controlled by the camera system

18:00 and this is just standard autopilot,

18:02 you can spend something like $10,000 on full self-driving,

18:06 which is where it changes lanes for you and stuff.

18:09 We had the chance to test that out over Christmas

18:11 and it was, I'm genuinely shocked

18:15 it's actually available in the car 'cause it was so bad.

18:18 So yeah, it's something they might fix over time,

18:21 but yeah, I just would not bother wasting 10 grand on it.

18:23 The car does come standard with autopilot,

18:25 which is effectively radar cruise control,

18:27 just without a radar.

18:28 So it'll hold lane centering for you

18:30 and keep a set distance between you and the car in front.

18:33 Problem is it's quite indecisive.

18:35 I have semi-occasional phantom braking issues

18:38 with our Model Y,

18:40 had phantom braking issues with the Model 3 as well.

18:42 So that means when you approach

18:43 like an overpass or something,

18:44 it'll think it's a stationary object

18:46 and it'll hit the brakes.

18:47 There was even a guy that in Sydney,

18:50 his car tried to slam the brakes on for a pedestrian

18:53 that wasn't like in front of the car at all

18:55 and he caused a pileup.

18:56 So yeah, it is a system

18:58 that you need to be watching all the time

19:00 and I'm always ready to take over

19:02 because I just don't trust that it's gonna work well.

19:04 It also does strange things

19:05 like when you are following another car

19:07 and you go to pass it by putting the indicator on,

19:09 it doesn't do what a regular radar system does,

19:11 which is check the next lane,

19:12 see that it's free and then start accelerating.

19:14 I think we'll actually try and demo this later on

19:16 so you can get a bit of an idea of what I'm talking about.

19:18 So yeah, that stuff kind of really needs to work better,

19:22 but it does have autonomous emergency braking forwards.

19:24 It doesn't have it in reverse, which is disappointing.

19:27 Most new cars on the market today

19:28 have rear cross traffic alert,

19:30 which is a radar-based system.

19:31 Obviously this not using radar doesn't have that.

19:34 It also doesn't have any blind spot monitoring,

19:36 which is again, pretty disappointing

19:37 'cause when you put your indicator on,

19:38 you get the camera come up,

19:40 but I would prefer to just have a blind spot monitor running

19:43 in the wing mirror,

19:44 which is where you need to be doing a head check regardless.

19:47 It also now, if you're ordering one today,

19:49 no longer has front and rear parking sensors,

19:51 which I mentioned earlier.

19:53 On the camera front though,

19:54 it does have a sort of parking set up here

19:57 when you do pop it into reverse.

19:58 So I'll show you what that looks like.

20:00 So it's actually, the camera itself is really high quality.

20:03 So you can see there,

20:03 I can clearly see what my suitcase says.

20:06 Those guidelines move with the steering wheel.

20:09 Now this view is interesting.

20:09 So that's looking back down the side of the car.

20:12 Typically what you would do is set your wing mirror

20:15 to dip down so you can see how close you are to the curb.

20:17 But this view is actually great

20:18 'cause when you're reversing into the curb,

20:19 you can see exactly where it is.

20:21 And it's just a really seamless system.

20:23 And I find that this kind of array is fantastic.

20:27 And then when you pair it with this car,

20:28 which has the ultrasonic sensors,

20:30 you can really park quite easily without too many dramas.

20:33 And this is what the horn sounds like.

20:34 (horn honking)

20:36 Let's talk about practicality

20:37 and we'll start off with your connectivity.

20:38 So I mentioned before you have wireless phone charging

20:41 down the front here, which works well.

20:42 In here, you have another set of USB-C ports.

20:45 So there's two of them in there.

20:47 You also have a 12 volt outlet in here.

20:50 Terms of storing things.

20:52 So your phone can live there on the charger

20:55 or in the cup holders.

20:56 The cup holders.

20:57 So this is what it looks like.

20:59 So in terms of putting your coffee in,

21:01 fits okay in there.

21:02 It doesn't get de-lidded, which is great news.

21:05 And then in terms of our water bottle,

21:07 fits in there, but there are no teeth.

21:08 So it kind of just moves around a little bit.

21:10 Does fit inside the door pocket.

21:13 Let's try our big bottle as well.

21:15 See how that goes.

21:16 Yeah, that fits in there too, which is good news.

21:19 Now in terms of other storage, have a look at this.

21:20 You have just so much storage.

21:23 You've got this giant slot down here

21:25 that you can stick a whole bunch of stuff in.

21:27 Your center console is enormous as well.

21:30 And then you also have a glove box in here too,

21:33 which also has your USB port for the dash cam

21:37 and the sentry mode as well.

21:38 And that's sort of reasonably sized.

21:40 Okay, now comfort, let's chat about that.

21:42 You have dual zone automatic climate control

21:46 up the front here.

21:47 You also have heated seats for the front row,

21:49 heated steering wheel.

21:51 The seats themselves are really comfortable.

21:54 I've spent a fair bit of time in this car

21:56 and yeah, that's one of the things I love about it.

21:58 The seats are just nice and soft and supportive.

22:01 In terms of adjustments,

22:02 so they're both electrically adjustable.

22:04 You can go forwards or backwards.

22:06 Backrest can go forwards, backwards.

22:07 You can lift the front, you can lift the back.

22:10 You also have lumbar adjustment for the driver.

22:12 They did have lumbar adjustment for the passenger,

22:15 but they deleted that feature

22:16 because they said it wasn't used very often.

22:19 Something you set once and then don't use.

22:22 But the fact that it's not there, I think is just bizarre.

22:24 In fact, it's actually one of the things

22:25 that kind of annoys me with Tesla.

22:27 So they've removed that.

22:29 They removed the carpet that's in the front.

22:30 So it kind of has no grip on it

22:32 when you put stuff in there.

22:34 They removed the mobile connector,

22:35 which used to be standard.

22:36 You actually used to get a wall connector,

22:38 part of the car purchase price as well.

22:41 So they are just cutting these things out as they go.

22:44 And it does get a little bit frustrating over time

22:46 because you lose things

22:47 that you think should actually be standard.

22:49 So in terms of steering adjustment,

22:52 it's electrically adjustable,

22:54 and it's all done here through the screen.

22:56 So you basically set this,

22:58 and then you can basically move it up and down

23:00 using the controls there on the steering wheel.

23:03 It offers both tilt and reach adjustment.

23:05 And this is also where you adjust your mirrors

23:07 to using the same function there on the steering wheel.

23:10 Okay, second row of the Model Y.

23:13 This is probably the thing that I love

23:15 about this vehicle the most.

23:16 When we stepped up from Model 3 to Model Y,

23:19 look at the room in here.

23:20 Like, to be honest,

23:22 it is a strange looking car on the outside.

23:24 And I know that design is subjective,

23:25 but that strange look really affords them all of this space.

23:29 So my seat is pretty much all the way back,

23:31 and I've got loads of knee room.

23:33 Toe room is ridiculously good.

23:34 Headroom is excellent as well.

23:37 And you get this massive glass roof here.

23:39 The only downside to this glass roof

23:41 is that on really hot days,

23:42 it radiates so much heat into the cabin,

23:45 and it really does struggle to keep everything cool in here

23:48 'cause you're just constantly getting barraged with heat.

23:51 So I really wish there was like a cover

23:53 that came standard with this.

23:54 You have to buy it.

23:56 It's optional.

23:57 You're gonna go pay for that if you want it,

23:58 but at least there is a solution in place there.

24:01 Other cringe comforts,

24:02 you have map pockets in the back of the seats,

24:04 two USB-C ports, air vents here as well,

24:07 seat heating for all three seats,

24:10 ISOFIX points with three top tether points.

24:12 You have a center armrest here with two cup holders.

24:15 They have rubber teeth on them,

24:17 so you can just bottle in there if you want to.

24:19 And then you also have the ability

24:20 to drop this center section down as well

24:23 to give you access to the boot if you need to.

24:25 Now, something I did mention in our last Model Y review

24:29 that I'm not a fan of,

24:29 but they have kind of addressed is this situation here.

24:33 So that's the button to release the door.

24:36 You push that, the door comes open,

24:38 but that needs power to work.

24:39 If in the event you're in a car accident

24:41 or something happens where that button is no longer active,

24:45 there's no emergency release here

24:46 like there is at the front.

24:48 It's located down here underneath this piece of rubber,

24:51 and then you've got a little button

24:53 that you have to get out of the way.

24:56 And then under there is like a little tab

24:59 that you have to pull.

25:00 It's the most ridiculous process in the world.

25:02 And I don't understand why I couldn't

25:03 have just integrated it here

25:05 so that you can just get out if you need to.

25:07 So that is a little bit disappointing

25:09 that you do have so much of a faff around there.

25:11 But on the other hand, it is handy.

25:14 I've got my daughter that sits in this seat in our car.

25:17 She can now reach this button here,

25:20 and that's obviously not good when you come to a stop.

25:22 So the workaround is on the screen,

25:24 you can actually set your child locks

25:26 to be both doors or one door.

25:28 And I think that is just a great feature

25:30 'cause you have it permanently set on her side,

25:32 and that means she won't be able

25:34 to do anything with that button

25:36 if she does actually end up reaching it.

25:38 Finally, our window test.

25:40 It's auto up and down.

25:41 Will it go all the way?

25:42 No, not quite.

25:44 Now let's talk cargo capacity.

25:48 It's probably my favorite thing about the Model Y.

25:50 We upgraded to a Model Y from a Model 3

25:52 because we needed more room for our little girl.

25:55 And trust me, it doesn't disappoint.

25:57 So you've got around 850 liters of cargo space

26:00 available here just in the standard form.

26:02 The reason this is so much better than the Model 3

26:05 is the Model 3's boot kind of opens like that,

26:07 and you can't really get a great deal in.

26:09 Well, you can for a sort of sedan,

26:11 but this is just such a big space,

26:13 and you can really just chuck a whole heap of stuff in there.

26:16 So it doesn't come with a cargo blind,

26:17 but I think you can get one aftermarket.

26:19 Beneath the cargo floor here, look at that,

26:21 that is a huge space.

26:22 This is where you can stick things like charging cables,

26:25 and if you do go for a road trip,

26:27 you literally just load that thing up as much as you can,

26:29 and you're all set.

26:31 Over on either side,

26:32 you have even more storage down the edges there.

26:34 There's also this little storage nook up the front

26:36 if you do need just that little bit of extra space as well.

26:39 Show you what it looks like with the bags in there.

26:42 So that's the laptop bag.

26:43 That's the suitcase.

26:46 I mean, you can picture a pram

26:47 and all that sort of stuff in there.

26:48 It all fits in really nicely.

26:50 Then if you do want more space,

26:52 you can drop the second row here from the back.

26:55 It's a 40/20/40 split fold,

26:57 but then if you flick these levers,

26:59 it will just get that completely out of the way,

27:03 and that expands the space to over 2,000 litres.

27:06 In addition to all of this,

27:07 you also have storage up the front,

27:09 a little over 100 litres of space.

27:11 Love the front area,

27:12 because if you do go and pick up like a takeaway curry

27:15 or something that's gonna stink out the car,

27:18 stick it all in the front boot, drive home,

27:21 and no one will ever know.

27:22 There's no evidence. (laughs)

27:24 Now, before we go for a drive,

27:25 let's talk about charging and battery.

27:27 So this is a little flap

27:29 where your charging infrastructure is.

27:31 Keep in mind as well with this

27:32 that if you do have a Tesla branded charger,

27:34 you can just press the button on the charger

27:36 and it opens this flap,

27:37 or you just tap it like that,

27:38 or open it in the car or in the app.

27:40 So this offers both AC and DC charging.

27:44 It'll do AC charging up to 11 kilowatts, three phase,

27:47 and it'll do DC charging.

27:50 Now, this is the funny thing.

27:51 It does it up to 250 kilowatts,

27:53 but it averages around 120 kilowatts.

27:56 And I was a bit surprised by that.

27:57 I thought it'd be much higher than that.

27:59 When I actually tested this the other night,

28:00 I pre-headed the battery,

28:03 ran the state of charge down to under 10%,

28:05 plugged up to a 350 kilowatt charger,

28:07 and the maximum it'd pull is around 190 kilowatts.

28:10 Same charger, except with a Hyundai product

28:13 with their 800 volt architecture,

28:14 it actually averaged over 200 kilowatts.

28:16 So I think that Tesla probably has a bit of work to do

28:18 on the charging front and to get the charging speeds

28:21 up to where some of the competitors are.

28:22 And I think a lot of that

28:23 just comes down to the fact

28:24 that this still doesn't use 800 volt charging architecture.

28:27 Keep in mind as well that battery size here,

28:29 nominal size of just under 80 kilowatt.

28:30 This is a lithium ion battery.

28:32 It's not an LFP battery like you do have

28:34 in the entry model car that I own.

28:36 That means that with this,

28:37 you're only really meant to charge this

28:39 up to about 80 or 90% regularly.

28:41 Whereas with the LFP battery,

28:42 it's recommended to charge that to 100% constantly.

28:45 And I'll run you through why that makes

28:46 a psychological difference when we do hop in the car.

28:52 Okay, so we've just hit the road

28:54 in the Model Y Performance.

28:56 Before I even go into anything else,

28:59 I wanna talk about the ride.

29:01 And this is the thing that I was most bitterly disappointed

29:04 with when we first drove the Model Y

29:06 and when I picked up our personal car as well,

29:09 because the ride is terrible.

29:11 It is so firm, even on my car

29:13 with the base 19 inch alloy wheels,

29:15 it's overly firm and just totally unacceptable

29:18 for a new car today.

29:19 Especially one that isn't meant

29:21 to really be a sports car.

29:22 The base model is just meant

29:24 to be a comfortable family SUV.

29:26 So the suspension's terrible,

29:28 but Tesla has started fitting what they call

29:31 a comfort damper to these cars.

29:33 And I thought, I don't know how convinced I am about that.

29:36 And then when I hopped in this,

29:38 it is like chalk and cheese compared to my car.

29:40 So this uses the comfort damper.

29:42 So despite this being on 21 inch alloy wheels

29:45 with low profile tires,

29:47 this has a far more comfortable ride

29:49 than even our car on the 19.

29:52 So it isn't amazing.

29:54 So it is still really firm

29:55 and it doesn't have the variability

29:57 that other cars in this segment do

29:59 with adaptive damping like the EV6 GT

30:01 and the upcoming Ioniq 5N.

30:03 And I think ultimately they do need that

30:05 because that is where you're gonna notice

30:06 most of the difference when it comes

30:08 to driving around in this.

30:09 But in comparison to what they had previously,

30:12 this is a huge step forward.

30:14 It's my understanding that they're gonna be fitting

30:15 this same type of suspension

30:17 to the rest of the Model Y range for Australia as well,

30:19 but I haven't had that confirmed just yet

30:21 because no one at Tesla ever tells us anything.

30:24 So I mentioned earlier in terms of battery sizes,

30:27 around that 80 kilowatt hour mark

30:29 in terms of the nominal value.

30:31 This then uses two electric motors,

30:32 one on the front axle, one on the rear axle,

30:34 and that produces a combined power output

30:36 of just under 400 kilowatts of power

30:39 and almost 700 newton meters of torque,

30:41 which is a big old wallet.

30:42 And that means when you do get on it,

30:44 it pins you back into the seat

30:48 very much more than you do in the base Model Y.

30:50 That's probably one thing that I miss

30:52 with our Model 3 performance,

30:53 the base Model Y is so slow in comparison.

30:56 This is definitely much better there

30:58 in terms of how quickly it picks up pace and gets moving.

31:00 Now you may have noticed as well,

31:02 this seatbelt is on for the passenger seat,

31:04 and that is because a bit of a design flaw.

31:06 When it is in its normal position,

31:08 there's a piece of plastic on the side of the seat there

31:10 that houses the airbag,

31:12 and the seatbelt just constantly taps on it.

31:14 So all you hear all the time

31:16 is just tap, tap, tap from the seatbelt.

31:18 So when there is no passenger in the car,

31:20 I have to drive with this connected.

31:21 So it's a little bit annoying,

31:23 and it doesn't seem like there's a way to adjust it,

31:24 so that doesn't happen anymore.

31:26 So we've talked about the ride being better.

31:28 What is it like over the sine waves?

31:30 Because when we tested the base Model Y,

31:32 it was excellent over the sine waves.

31:33 It had really good body control.

31:35 Let's see if we're getting the same experience here.

31:38 So we will dial up 130 Ks an hour,

31:41 and we'll see how it goes.

31:44 Wow, it's really feeling really wallowy through there.

31:46 Okay, so 130, here come the sine waves.

31:50 Yeah, look, it's not bad.

31:55 It definitely feels not as good as the base Model Y.

31:59 So obviously with the base Model Y having a firmer ride,

32:02 it is able to control itself better there

32:04 over the sine waves,

32:05 whereas this has a bit more float to it.

32:07 It's not the end of the world,

32:07 but I have a feeling when we do go for a faster drive,

32:10 it's probably going to affect the way that it handles.

32:13 (car engine roaring)

32:15 Now, our bumpy road.

32:16 This is literally the worst road in Australia.

32:19 We hit this at 90 Ks an hour

32:20 to see how the vehicle performs.

32:24 Okie dokie, so there's 90 Ks.

32:27 Now I can really hear something

32:28 rattling around in the back there.

32:30 It's actually quite impressive in terms of the ride.

32:35 It is just so much better than my Model Y.

32:37 Here's our condensed sine wave.

32:39 That is remarkably good.

32:41 It's really just falling into all of those divots nicely.

32:45 And it's just coping really well

32:46 with this sort of terrible road condition.

32:49 So yeah, really impressive sort of ride comfort

32:53 and body control over these choppier stretches of road.

32:56 Now let's talk about economy.

32:59 So Tesla claims a combined consumption

33:02 just under 15 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometres.

33:05 We are currently sitting on 19.2 kilowatt hours per 100 Ks.

33:11 So keep in mind that includes a mix of highway driving

33:14 to get here to the proving ground,

33:15 plus some hot laps earlier in the day.

33:17 So that's really quite impressive.

33:19 And we did something like this in the EV6 GT.

33:21 We were sitting in a much higher energy consumption there.

33:25 What amazes me, my personal Model Y,

33:27 the base rear wheel drive one,

33:28 is sitting at something like 12 kilowatt hours per 100 Ks.

33:32 It is an incredibly efficient setup.

33:34 So yeah, the more you drive it,

33:35 the more you become comfortable with it,

33:37 the less energy it ends up using.

33:38 So it's a pretty sort of efficient vehicle to drive.

33:41 Now there are no drive modes.

33:45 All you can really sort of select here

33:46 is acceleration and the steering modes.

33:49 I'll run you through track mode a little later on,

33:51 but let's go for a little fang around our track here.

33:54 We do this in all our cars.

33:55 We'll see how this all feels.

33:57 Feel for the brakes as well.

33:59 First corner.

34:01 All right.

34:07 So that stability control light flashing already,

34:09 which is not a good sign.

34:10 It sits nice and flat through the corners.

34:15 The steering is incredibly direct.

34:17 So a tiny bit of steering input is all you need

34:19 to get this thing to move around.

34:21 Not loving the way this is set up.

34:26 That high center of gravity is really affecting

34:29 the way this performs when you hit bumps mid corner.

34:31 Yeah, 'cause the steering is so direct,

34:35 it really sort of wallows as it comes through

34:38 some of these corners.

34:39 And wow, even there over those tram tracks,

34:42 it's really not very good in terms of braking performance.

34:45 You're getting it moving between regen

34:50 and then the mechanical braking system,

34:52 and that's causing it to unsettle itself.

34:54 See what it's like onto our back stroke.

34:56 I can see that stability control light flashing there again.

34:59 I'll go hard on the throttle here.

35:01 Now it'll be interesting to see what happens at the end here.

35:04 I've got to bump into that braking zone.

35:07 Hard on the brakes.

35:08 Wow.

35:09 It's not very good at all.

35:11 Yeah, this just feels, yeah, it just doesn't feel right.

35:17 The Model 3 performance is great

35:19 'cause it's got that low center of gravity.

35:21 It's quick, it's not overly heavy.

35:23 It does everything great.

35:24 This on the other hand, this isn't all that heavy

35:26 compared to something like an EV6 GT.

35:29 It's something like 300 kilos less.

35:30 This tips and scales at just over two tons.

35:33 But it's the center of gravity that makes this thing

35:36 just not very impressive when the speed picks up.

35:38 So you're finding there with that direct steering,

35:41 it turns in really sharp, but because you've got that,

35:43 that ride that is a mix between firm and floaty,

35:47 if you do hit a bump mid-corner,

35:48 it really unsettles the car a lot.

35:50 And I'm finding the same thing here with this brake pedal

35:53 that I found in my car as well

35:54 when we went for a fang around here.

35:56 Because it's not a brake-by-wire system

35:59 like you're finding in the EV6 GT,

36:01 when you hit spots like that

36:03 where you have a bump into a braking zone,

36:05 it all of a sudden goes from having maximum regen

36:08 to coming out of regen

36:09 because the tires slightly leave the road there.

36:12 You then need to apply more braking input,

36:15 which puts more pressure on your braking system.

36:18 Then when it comes back into contact with the road,

36:20 it goes back into regen.

36:21 So you're just getting this really unsettling effect

36:24 as it moves through.

36:25 And as you can see on those faster corners as well,

36:27 stability control was constantly biting there.

36:30 And it really shouldn't do that.

36:32 And the way that they can fix that is, again,

36:34 by doing what Hyundai and Kia do,

36:36 which is fitting an ELSD to the rear axle.

36:38 Because what it's currently doing

36:39 is when you tip it into a corner like this

36:41 and get on the throttle,

36:42 it's trying to spin up that inside wheel,

36:44 and it's using a braking system to apply a torque vector.

36:47 And that really doesn't work well.

36:49 So in a high-performance car like this,

36:51 they need a proper electronically-controlled

36:53 limited-slip differential to stop it doing that.

36:55 So obviously, you're not going to be driving like this

36:58 all the time, I totally understand that.

36:59 But if you do pick up the pace,

37:01 you want to go to the track or something,

37:03 this really does feel like it needs a lot of work.

37:05 And you can see why brands like Hyundai and Kia

37:09 spend so much time at the Nürburgring,

37:11 because that gives you such a great mix

37:13 of driving conditions they can tune those vehicles on.

37:16 Like we drove with the EV6 GT here recently,

37:20 it is significantly more comfortable on a track like this

37:23 where the speeds pick up

37:24 and there are sort of bumps mid-corner than this is.

37:27 So yeah, quick and a straight line.

37:29 It is definitely, but it just doesn't feel as settled

37:32 as it needs to be when the pace picks up through the corners.

37:35 Now, what about road noise?

37:38 It is really quiet in here.

37:39 I was quite surprised by that.

37:40 It's a really nice place to be seated.

37:42 Even on these sportier tyres,

37:44 don't have a huge amount of road noise

37:45 coming into the cabin.

37:46 It does feel a little boomier than the base model car,

37:49 but for the most part,

37:50 it's still a really nice and pleasant experience,

37:52 even on course-chip country roads.

37:53 Just something else that I wanted to sort of touch on

37:55 as well, even though this has a significantly bigger battery

37:58 than the entry-level car, it's like 20 kilowatt hours bigger,

38:01 your actual driving range isn't all that impressive.

38:04 So they claim over 500 kilometres on the WLTP cycle,

38:08 but when I had this charged to 100% this morning,

38:11 it was only showing marginally more mileage

38:14 than what I would get in my personal car.

38:16 So my personal car has the LFP battery,

38:17 this has the lithium ion.

38:19 This was showing a little under 500 Ks,

38:21 whereas my car will show 430 when it's full.

38:23 And the whole concept here as well

38:25 is that you really only should be charging this

38:27 to 80 or 90% because the lithium ion batteries

38:31 don't like being full constantly

38:32 unless you're doing a road trip,

38:33 whereas with the LFP batteries,

38:35 you should be always charging to 100%.

38:37 So at 100%, I'm showing 430,

38:40 here at 100%, I'm showing not much more than that.

38:43 And then I'd probably be charging this to 80 or 90%,

38:45 which means you're not actually theoretically

38:48 getting more driving range.

38:49 It is a bit of a mental thing,

38:51 but yeah, the added weight you have here

38:54 really does affect how much driving range

38:55 you have available.

38:56 There is a long range version of the Model Y

38:58 that's just gone on sale that offers significantly more,

39:01 but then you don't get that performance benefit

39:03 that you do here.

39:04 Okay, so I mentioned earlier that this cruise control system

39:10 doesn't really work that well,

39:11 and I'll show you what I mean.

39:12 I'm gonna get up behind Igor, who's in front of me.

39:15 He's got his cruise set to 70.

39:18 So you can see we're approaching him,

39:19 we're predictably slowing down.

39:21 We've got our cruise set to 80, he's doing 70.

39:24 I need to pass him now.

39:26 What would happen normally in a car

39:27 with radar cruise control,

39:29 the second I hit the indicator,

39:30 it would start speeding up because there's no one there,

39:32 but watch this.

39:33 Put the indicator on, we're still doing the same speed.

39:36 So at this point now, I'm holding up traffic,

39:38 and only now is it starting to speed up.

39:40 We still haven't passed him.

39:42 And this is all because of the vision system.

39:44 It's just not letting us achieve what we need to achieve

39:48 because it just doesn't have a radar

39:50 to tell it that there's nothing there.

39:51 So I don't know if that's a confidence thing

39:53 in their programming,

39:54 but it's something that definitely needs to be resolved.

39:56 Okey-dokey, time to do a little bit of testing

39:58 with the lane support systems.

40:01 We'll see how well this works.

40:02 Tesla has the best in the business

40:04 in the sense that all of their systems

40:06 typically work really well.

40:07 And what we've got here is a simulation

40:09 of a worst case scenario where the car has to apply

40:11 a lot of torque to the steering wheel.

40:13 Had a couple of cars pass here,

40:14 but a lot of them will fail in the outer lane there

40:16 where the car has to do all the work.

40:17 So cruise control to 70 kilometers an hour.

40:21 So here in lane one, it's doing an excellent job.

40:23 We're staying sort of dead center there.

40:26 It's applying plenty of steering input.

40:28 There's no problems there.

40:28 You can see those lines appearing.

40:30 We'll jump over to next lane over.

40:32 Okay, and then set cruise control.

40:37 So autopilot is active now.

40:39 It's steering for us.

40:41 And again, doing an excellent job there,

40:43 keeping the car pretty much dead center to that lane.

40:45 Let's see how it goes in the outermost lane.

40:51 Okay, so set that.

40:53 Set it to 70 k's an hour.

40:59 There we go.

41:01 Excellent, it is holding that perfectly.

41:02 So pass in lane one, two, and three.

41:06 Okay, time to do a little bit of performance testing.

41:11 So Tesla claims a zero to 100 time of 3.7 seconds.

41:15 Keep in mind though, that number's a bit,

41:16 a little bit dodgy because they include a one foot rollout,

41:20 which means you're deducting the first foot of travel.

41:23 And that is a drag racing thing.

41:25 Obviously on the road,

41:26 it doesn't make any sense to quote that number.

41:29 So I suspect the number we're gonna get to,

41:31 a hundred kilometers an hour,

41:32 is going to be slower than that,

41:33 but we'll see how we go anyway.

41:35 We're gonna go all the way through to 120 as well,

41:36 so we can see what that overtaking time is like.

41:39 So yeah, everything's ready to go.

41:40 I'm just gonna slam down the throttle.

41:42 Here we go.

41:43 Yeah, that is nice and quick.

41:49 So there's a hundred, 120 as well.

41:52 Very good.

41:53 I'll come to a stop.

41:55 Keep in mind as well that with Ohm's law,

41:57 if you do actually have a fuller battery,

42:01 it will be quicker because P equals VI,

42:04 power equals volts times current.

42:06 So with a fuller battery, you have a higher voltage,

42:09 and that's gonna mean a better acceleration time.

42:12 So zero to 100, that's not bad, 4.17 seconds,

42:16 but still well off the claim of 3.7 seconds.

42:20 And then 80 to 120 came in at 2.61 seconds,

42:24 which is a really good time.

42:25 It just shows you for overtaking,

42:26 this is going to feel really nice and sharp

42:28 for those overtakes.

42:30 Time to do a break.

42:31 Let's see how quickly this will stop from a hundred Ks an hour.

42:34 Okay, so dial up a hundred Ks an hour

42:36 and hit our braking marker, slam down the anchors.

42:40 Here we go.

42:44 (groans)

42:46 That felt really good.

42:50 Curious to see what kind of a braking distance we had there

42:53 and it felt really strong.

42:54 2.57 seconds, 36.1 metres.

42:58 That is impressive, wow.

43:01 I was not expecting that.

43:02 So just to put that into context,

43:03 today we're also testing the Cupra 4Mental,

43:06 which is a small SUV.

43:08 This weighs significantly more than that

43:10 and has stopped in almost the exact same distance.

43:14 So yeah, very impressed with that

43:15 in terms of stopping distance.

43:16 If you do want to see how this compares to other cars

43:18 that we've tested in terms of those performance

43:20 and braking figures, including the EV6 GT,

43:23 have a look at the link in the description below.

43:26 And now time for our reverse acceleration test.

43:29 Let's see how it goes.

43:30 It's all nice and gentle.

43:33 Wow, that's very gentle.

43:36 24 kilometres an hour.

43:38 Okay, so let's chat track mode.

43:41 So I'm going to put this into park

43:42 and just show you what it looks like.

43:44 So if you go over here to,

43:46 where are we, pedals and steering, track mode.

43:49 If we go to customise,

43:50 I'll just show you what it looks like.

43:51 So Tesla has a couple of presets in there,

43:54 but I've set up my own.

43:55 I wrote test and accidentally put a Y there,

43:57 so let's just do yes.

43:59 So what you can do is actually set

44:01 where you want all the torque to go.

44:02 So you can go full front wheel drive,

44:05 full rear wheel drive,

44:06 and then you can set how much

44:07 stability control intervention you want,

44:10 along with how much regen braking you want.

44:12 So keep in mind that if you do want to preserve your brakes,

44:14 you want regen braking to be at its maximum.

44:17 And then if you want to do drifty things,

44:19 you want it to be at its minimum,

44:20 so it doesn't keep cutting in

44:21 while you're trying to do stuff.

44:23 Post-drive cooling will run the fans after you're done,

44:25 and then it also saves dash cams for laps as well.

44:29 Also gives you this really cool display over here.

44:31 So show you what it looks like.

44:32 Let's go to all front wheel drive

44:34 and just see what that feels like.

44:36 We'll switch track mode on.

44:37 You have a disclaimer.

44:38 We enable that.

44:39 Shows you that everything here is ready to go.

44:41 I can hear the fans kick on there as well.

44:44 So right now we're in front wheel drive mode.

44:47 It actually still accelerates pretty good

44:49 for front wheel drive mode.

44:50 So we'll go around our cone here.

44:53 And just gas it.

44:54 Kind of very uneventful.

44:58 It spins up that front wheel,

45:02 but it doesn't really do a great deal.

45:06 So it's not all that exciting.

45:07 So let's do what is exciting,

45:09 and that is rear wheel drive.

45:12 So we'll just go all the way to rear wheel drive.

45:14 Stability control is switched off.

45:16 I'm gonna leave red gen braking at 5%.

45:19 Come back now and give this another shot.

45:21 And keep seeing how this feels compared to the EV6 GT,

45:25 which has a drift mode.

45:26 So dip it into here.

45:28 It's actually really impressive.

45:33 It is just so much more gradual

45:36 and controllable than the EV6 GT.

45:41 So this isn't actually a drift mode.

45:44 It's not trying to drift.

45:46 All it's doing is just sending all the torque to the rear.

45:48 But to me, this feels a lot more controllable

45:50 and manageable than it did in the EV6.

45:53 We'll give that another crack.

45:54 So you can't...

45:57 (laughs)

45:59 That was a bit sloppy,

46:00 but you can actually get a fair bit

46:02 of steering angle in there.

46:03 And it really is very nice and controllable.

46:05 So yeah, really happy with that.

46:07 So track mode, you can use it if you wanna go to the track.

46:11 And I think that if you do go to the track,

46:13 make sure you have all of this enabled.

46:14 And I would leave stability control active

46:16 'cause it'll still let you have a bit of fun,

46:18 but then step in when it does need to.

46:20 And probably the best split there as well

46:22 is gonna be something like 60/40 or 80/20.

46:25 That'll give you the most fun without destroying your car.

46:34 Okay, so Tesla Model Y performance.

46:36 Look, just like my Model Y, I like the formula.

46:40 It's got plenty of space.

46:41 The tech is fantastic, especially that mobile app.

46:43 It is just sensational.

46:46 The charging network's great.

46:47 It does all of that stuff really well.

46:49 What I was hoping this would be is basically

46:51 an SUV version of the Model 3 performance.

46:53 And the Model 3 performance around here

46:54 was an absolute rocket ship.

46:56 It was really nice and in control all of the time.

46:59 This just feels, it just feels all sorts of weird.

47:02 And I keep referring to Hyundai and Kia.

47:04 They are sort of in the price bracket of this

47:06 in terms of performance.

47:08 And they are both significantly better than this

47:09 when it comes to handling at speed.

47:12 Now, if you then wanna spend even more money,

47:14 you look at the other brands that are doing engineering

47:16 at the Nurburgring, like BMW with the iX.

47:18 That is, again, significantly better than this around here.

47:21 Obviously much more expensive,

47:22 but the formula for an EV can be better than what this is.

47:26 And I think that Tesla needs to really invest

47:28 in ride and handling.

47:29 And they need to do that pretty urgently

47:31 because the rest of the competitors are coming

47:33 and they're all offering far better packages

47:35 that are just a bit more interesting

47:36 to drive at speed than this.

47:37 So if it was me and me spending the money,

47:40 I probably wouldn't bother getting the performance.

47:42 I would go for the long range.

47:43 That gives you not only more range,

47:45 it gives you better performance in the entry level.

47:47 Yes, it doesn't have track mode and that sort of stuff,

47:49 but I could probably take or leave that.

47:51 So yeah, my advice, don't get the performance,

47:53 get the long range or even just the base model.

47:55 I think it is really good value for money.

47:57 And with that LFP battery,

47:58 you can charge it all the way to 100%.

48:00 So let me know what you reckon

48:01 in the comments section below.

48:02 Have you bought one of these?

48:04 What has it been like?

48:05 What do you think of it?

48:06 Am I wrong?

48:07 Totally wrong.

48:08 Let me know your thoughts.

48:08 I'm keen for your feedback.

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