NEW Tesla Model Y detailed review (inc 0-100 & braking)

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The all-new Tesla Model Y has been revealed and we are finally getting behind the wheel of the mid-specification Long Range variant. But - are there way too many more affordable Chinese market cars on the way to take its crown?  Hardness tester, noise and lane keeping results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior: 01:26 Interior: 05:05 Infotainment: 07:00 Safety Tech: 10:35 Practicality: 11:45 Charging: 17:46 On the Road: 18:23 Driver aids: 26:45 Accel. & braking: 30:46 Verdict: 32:53  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

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00:00Hi, I'm Paul. So, behind me, that is the best-selling car in the world, the Tesla Model Y.

00:06It's just been updated as part of what is actually a fairly major overhaul for this vehicle,

00:11and as a previous Model Y owner, I'm going to run you through some of the changes,

00:15the ones that I like, the ones that I don't like. What you're looking at here is the Model Y. It's

00:19called the Juniper, the update that they've done. This here is the long range, so it's a mid-spec.

00:23There isn't a performance out at the moment, but it is coming soon, and the entry level for the

00:29all-wheel drive setup, whereas this is an all-wheel drive setup. This is priced now at just under $70,000.

00:35If that is too expensive, the entire range kicks off at just under $60,000, so it's a $3,000 increase

00:41over the outgoing model. Today, we're going to do a detailed review of this car, so if you do want to

00:45skip ahead to other parts of this review, you've got time codes up on the screen, or if you're on

00:49YouTube, you can scroll down and use the chapters below. Now, on the design front, I reckon this has

00:54RoboCop vibes. Have a look at that, the slit across the front there. Both the front and the rear have this

00:59LED running light that's on while you're driving. It looks really cool. What isn't so cool, though,

01:04is the pricing of some of these optional colours. They start at $2,300. I mean, that is insane money

01:11for optional colours, and that's really where they get you. The standard price has gone up, but they've

01:17also then jacked up the price of some of the optional colours, so you really can't get away without

01:21spending money unless you want just a white car, which some people do, which is perfectly fine.

01:26Some of the changes down to the front here include headlight positioning. Previously,

01:30everything was bundled into one lamp, whereas this is now a sort of split setup. So, LED running light,

01:35headlight down here, indicator built into here. That's a departure from the single setup that

01:41they had previously. They've also now integrated a camera down the front here as well to assist with

01:45things like parking. They've deleted all of the ultrasonic parking sensors, which I think is a

01:49terrible idea. It doesn't work that well on the Model 3 Highland, and I suspect it's going to work

01:54quite poorly here as well, but you do have that set of cameras to help with parking and measure

01:58distances to things that the vehicle is approaching. Around the side here, a little bit of aero as well.

02:04The car has improved in terms of range thanks to aero changes, and funnily enough, stuff like

02:09headlights are able to get better aero by moving these headlights around. So, funny little setup.

02:15Down the side here, you've got a set of standard 19-inch alloy wheels. Nice and chunky 45-profile

02:20tyre there as well on some Hankook EV tyres. They sound a bit gross, so we'll see what they're like

02:26when we go for a bit of a spin. A little plastic cover there. Now, that's part of, again, that aero

02:31setup. This plastic cover helps reduce drag, so it means that you're able to extract just little bits

02:37of range out of the vehicle. Plastic wheel arch protector there as well. This is where one of the

02:43cameras is located. So, you've got two on either side, one up the front there, one up the top here.

02:46You've got some down the side here as well in that B pillar. One of the cool features here of the Model

02:51Y and other Tesla products as well, one of the things I loved when I owned one, is sentry mode

02:56and being able to monitor the surrounds of the vehicle when you're not there. You're now able

03:00to access sentry mode and the clips through your phone, so you can actually stream what is happening

03:04and what has happened through the phone as well, which is just a really big step forward and

03:09just a cool feature that you don't find in a lot of other brands. You've got privacy glass.

03:13They've retained the glass roof. Changes to the windows include acoustic glass, which is meant

03:18to reduce the road noise coming into the cabin. So, handy feature because there was a fair bit of

03:23road noise in the previous generation car, so that is something they claim to have improved.

03:28Come around the back with me. Now, around the back here, it's probably my favourite angle of this car.

03:33Check out this red strip that runs along there. So, you've got individual Tesla lettering here.

03:38They've moved the button for the boot to here as well, so it's a really good location.

03:43Very easy to grab hold of while you're approaching the vehicle. You can also have the boot open

03:47automatically as you approach the vehicle as well. Dual motor badge down here, which signifies that

03:51this is obviously the dual motor. The performance version has an underline there. This is cool because

03:56at night time, it actually projects onto the road behind the vehicle. So, when you're changing lanes

04:01and you get that side camera come up, you actually get to see illumination down the back of the car,

04:08which is just a cool setup. People following you also get a great angle there of that LED strip,

04:13which is cool. Diffuser down the bottom here as well, which is all sort of pretty straightforward.

04:17So, let me know what you reckon about the design in the comments section below. Do you like the look

04:22of it? What do you think about the pricing? It has gone up in price. Do you think it's a bit of a stretch?

04:26Are you looking at some of the other Chinese brands in this segment now as well? I'm keen for your

04:30feedback. Let me know down there. So, we're inside the Model Y. Let's run through some of the changes.

04:35We'll start off with the key. So, it's what the key looks like. It's just a card. Most people will

04:40just use their phone. So, as you approach with your phone, you just grab the door handle and away it

04:44goes. We've actually shot a lot of videos recently on like a spate of cars getting stolen and certainly

04:51in Victoria. It's like the crime capital of Australia at the moment. There's so many cars getting

04:55stolen and pretty much all of them have a proximity key and it allows thieves to just either clone keys

05:01or use, in case of Toyotas, like CAN bus injection to steal cars. I've yet to see any Teslas get

05:08stolen. It just seems like the security is top-notch. There is no external key port, so you can't

05:13actually sort of jam anything in there to unlock a door. So, it is highly secure from that point of

05:18view, which is pretty good. Outside of that though, in terms of what this interior looks like and what's

05:23changed. So, LED lighting strip now runs along the top there. You can customise the colours there as

05:28well and change them to whatever you want. We've changed some of this material. So, in our car,

05:32this was like a woodgrain material with a black interior. With the white cars, it was like a white

05:37strip of some sort. Now, it's this sort of fabric material that they've run along there.

05:42It is actually like a nicely presented interior with really good storage, which we'll get to soon.

05:47Also, I've changed the infotainment system slightly, so it's a little bit bigger now and I'll get to

05:51that in just a second. Now, what about your touch points? So, in the centre there, sort of soft on

05:57the door as well. How soft are those touch points? Well, we've got our durometer. We've tested the

06:02main surfaces in this cabin. If you do want to see how this car compares to others that we've tested

06:05before, there is a link in the description below. Now, build quality. What is it like?

06:10A little shake test there that all feels nice and solid for what it's worth. Our Model Y had no build

06:16quality issues, which is good. This is what the door slam sounds like. It's no longer tinny.

06:23It's got a nice sort of European sound to it. Now, let's talk about infotainment. So, the usable

06:29screen size has increased slightly, so it's just over 15 inches in size. Tesla's also made changes to

06:35the steering wheel. So, go on the multi-stalks. You only have one stalk now and it is just an indicator

06:40stalk. So, up, down. That's all it does. Gear change is now done on the screen here, which I'll

06:46run you through when we go for a drive. Headlights are now done here on the steering wheel. So,

06:49you press that top one for high beams. Press the bottom one for your windscreen wipers.

06:55It's a very sort of changed setup and I've spent a bit of time driving this around now and it seems

06:59to work. I didn't love the indicators on the steering wheel with Model 3, but the fact that

07:04they've moved this back up here and will probably do the same thing to Model 3, I think is a really

07:08good change. So, in terms of the actual infotainment system itself, though, this is where

07:12everything else happens. So, climate controls, radio, navigation, etc. They've improved the

07:16voice recognition, so it actually works now. When you want to tell it to call people or ask

07:20it to do things, it actually works. They've changed things like integration of weather into

07:25here. I also love, as well, with our... Now, you're not going to see anything here because

07:29it's clear weather today, but they now have map overlays for weather. So, you can see here

07:33beyond Australia, you've got some nasty sort of weather over Fiji and all that sort of stuff.

07:39So, handy thing to know what you're about to drive into and then the rest of the standard

07:44functions with your satellite overlays and also things like traffic and getting a better

07:48understanding of where your supercharger is located. Now, in addition to that, you still

07:51have all your other sort of classic Google functions. So, navigation using online search,

07:58so you can just type in a business name and it will find it for you without sort of any dramas.

08:02Then, I mean, the apps just keep changing here. There is so much. You've got your dash cam

08:06that's built into the car for a dash camera while you're driving and also sentry mode while

08:10the car is stationary. Theater, which includes all of your streaming options for stuff like

08:15YouTube and Netflix, et cetera. Keep in mind, you're going to have to pay 10 bucks a month

08:18to get access to premium subscription for a lot of that stuff to actually work. The toy

08:23box, which has all of the silly things like the megaphone and all the sort of fart modes

08:29and light show and all that sort of stuff. And then outside of that, you also have Spotify

08:33integrated into here, plus YouTube music, Apple music now as well, Apple podcasts. They're

08:38desperately trying here to make it so that you don't need Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. But

08:44in my opinion, you do need Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because the problem you have here

08:48is that when you're driving along, everything on this screen requires you to take attention

08:53off the road, including stuff like your speed. There is just no easy way to do stuff here.

08:59And everything is so small and hard to use while you're trying to concentrate on driving that

09:03it just really becomes annoying after a while. So stuff like Apple CarPlay just allows you to run

09:09everything through voice commands, send text messages properly. You know, it just, I don't know,

09:13it's just something that I need to just get on with integrating instead of just having a litany of

09:17apps for all this stuff that you could just have a simple smartphone integration for. So anyway,

09:21enough complaining about that. And this is also where you're going to control everything like

09:25opening and closing your boot, frunk, charging port, et cetera, et cetera, plus all your vehicle

09:30settings as well. That's all located through here too. So fully loaded infotainment system just takes

09:35a little while to get used to and can be a little fiddly to use while you're driving.

09:38On the audio front, this spec of the car gets 16 speakers, so 15 plus a subwoofer. Great sound

09:44system. I've always loved the sound system in Teslas. You've got FM DAB radio plus the integration of

09:50Spotify. If you do want to pay for your premium subscription, you then also need to bring your

09:54own Spotify account as well. So it's going to cost you even more money. Whereas previously it was just

09:58integrated as part of that premium subscription. Let's talk safety. So you've got an auto dimming

10:03rear vision mirror. There's a camera here for internal vision through the Sentry function.

10:08They've now integrated a blind spot indicator into this meshed section over here, which is a welcome

10:13edition. They've got this sort of Kia Hyundai clone of the indicator camera on the side, which is a

10:19handy feature to have so you can actually see what's going on in your blind spot before you do

10:23a head check. You don't have any parking sensors, so no ultrasonic sensors. It relies entirely on

10:28camera system alone. We will test that later on to see whether it's better, but when we tested it in

10:32the Model 3, it really wasn't a very good system at all. You've got radar cruise, well actually not

10:37radar cruise control. You've got distance based cruise control with a lane keeping function. We'll test

10:41that a little bit later on as well. And then now a 360 camera because they've integrated a front

10:46camera as well. So let's have a look at that quality of that. Well, it's technically not 360.

10:51It's sort of, I don't know what you'd call it, but there's your front view. There's your side views.

10:56You actually have a washer on the front camera as well to keep that nice and clean. I'll pop this

11:01into reverse. That's what the rear camera looks like. So the quality is okay. It's a little bit

11:04grainy around there. It could be a little bit better. And this is what the horn sounds like.

11:10Moving on to practicality and we'll start off with connectivity. You've got dual wireless phone

11:15chargers up the front here. I do like, so they've got a USB-C port in here and then a 12 volt outlet

11:22down here. I do like the storage here. This is, you know, we reviewed, what did we review the other

11:27day? The ID4 Volkswagen. They have the same amount of space, but it's just not enclosed. So as a result

11:33of that, you just can't store valuables in the car because you can clearly see them through the

11:37windows. Whereas here, you've got cup holders, you've got really deep storage down here, plus more

11:42storage in here. They really have thought about practicality here and just giving you as much

11:47storage as humanly possible. You've got glove box over here, which you activate using the screen.

11:52It's pretty small. Nothing sort of too crazy there. No sunglasses holder or anything like that, but

11:57storage from a family point of view, it's actually quite good in here. Now, moving on to comfort.

12:04This is where things get pretty cool. So you've got dual zone automatic climate control, which is great,

12:08but now you have heated and cooled seats, which I think is a big step forward. Because that was

12:13one of the things I didn't really love about our car. You just didn't have any sort of breathability

12:17in the seats. And with that roof, you just get so much heat coming through it that now having

12:21cooled seats there really makes a big difference. You've got dog mode, camp mode, and keep the AC

12:27running while you're out of the car as well. So a lot of really good features there. Plus probably

12:30one of the most underrated features in any car today, which they don't really advertise all that much,

12:35but is huge. A HEPA filter. So this, you can be following, you know, a vehicle spewing a whole

12:42bunch of diesel smoke, and you just don't notice anything inside the car. You don't have to do

12:45anything when you get into tunnels. It is just a really awesome feature that when you get back into

12:50a normal car that doesn't have like a HEPA filter, and you're just smelling all these fumes, you're

12:54like, God, I wish I had this. So that is a really cool function. Outside of that, you have electric

12:59adjustment for the driver and front passenger. So you can go forwards and backwards. Your backrest can go

13:03forwards and backwards. You can lift the front of the seat, back of the seat. You've got lumbar

13:07adjustment as well, along with seat memory. The steering offers tilt and reach adjustment. It's

13:12electrically adjustable through this screen. That's one of those annoying fiddly things, but given it's

13:18linked to driving profiles, you only really need to do it once, and then you don't have to think about

13:22it outside of that, which is good. And on our reach test, all of this stuff is easy to reach while

13:27you're driving. Now, second row, what's it like back here? This feels much nicer. It feels like they're

13:34focused a bit more on the second row here and giving it a premium vibe. So you've got that sort of

13:38material coming back to the back here, which feels nice. So knee room's great, toe room is excellent,

13:44headroom is really good as well. This is what I love about the Model Y. Second row, there is so much

13:49space here to work with. So they've done a fantastic job with that. So matte pockets over here.

13:54Touch on that in a second. Center armrest here with a couple of cup holders. I want to touch on

14:00this. So you've got two USB-C ports there, plus air vents here. I reckon this has got to be one of

14:06the most useless features. This is right up there with passenger displays on stuff like the Porsche

14:11Taycan and new RAM. I've just got issues with it. Like just picture your kids sitting here,

14:16just lobbing a foot through that. It's going to just break that straight away. Your kids can't

14:20really use it either because if you do want to watch anything, your head's just crane down to

14:25this screen down here that's just awkwardly located. Yeah, I don't know. I just think it's

14:30a complete waste of money and they should have just dedicated, you know, whatever that costs into

14:34reducing the price of the car or doing something else inside the car. But anyway, so this is where

14:39you control your climate functions here for the second row and you sort of, you faff around with

14:44some of those controls. But yeah, I don't think it's worthwhile. Other thing I noticed as well is

14:49that this roof, yeah, it goes all the way back. But for some reason, they've stopped the tinting

14:55just here. I don't know if that's just a fault here on this press car, but that looks pretty

15:00half-assed to me. The other thing I'm going to be critical of as well is this right here. So you've

15:05got a button here to get out of the car. And, you know, there've been news stories about people

15:11that have passed away inside cars like this where you don't have manual release for the second row,

15:16because if you are in an accident where it kills your electrics, this button ain't going to do

15:20anything. Now, they have buried right down here a manual release for this second row. Problem is,

15:26even now in my unpanicked state, I don't even know how to open that. So you can imagine that if you've

15:31just been in a wreck that you want to get out of the car pretty quickly, you need to figure out that,

15:35yes, there is a manual release down here. Hope that you don't have other stuff in your door pocket.

15:39Figure out how to release that, then make your way out of the car. I just think just install door

15:44handles. It is so simple and it will solve all of these issues. So now our window test. Does it go

15:50all the way down? So it's auto up and down? No, it does not. Now let's talk cargo space. So

15:57this thing open. You've got, finally, this, which is good. That was never in our car. It's a little bit

16:07sort of chintzy in terms of the way that it works. So I'll just move that out of the way for the

16:10moment. You've got around a thousand litres to work with here, but the important thing to remember is

16:15how much space you have tucked away under here. Have a look at that. That is enormous. And then

16:20over here as well, you've got a little bit more storage under there too, plus off to the sides as

16:25well. So it is pretty generous there in terms of what you can fit in. That's what it looks like with

16:30the suitcase in there as well. And the good thing, I guess, with this cargo blind is that you can just

16:35reef it out of the way if you need to. You can now also recline the seats electrically. So by pushing

16:42this button over here, you can see that it sort of reclines out of the way there. Likewise, that one,

16:48you lose 20 litres of space for the mechanism they've installed for this. And that does expand the

16:54space to around 2000 litres. I did notice just then as well, the passenger seat moved out of the way to

16:59make room for that headrest too, which is a handy little feature to have. So it is a big old space

17:04there once you sort of look at it like this. In addition to all of this, you also have storage

17:09up the front, a little over 100 litres of space. Now let's talk about charging and battery. So you've

17:15got 75 kilowatt hour battery. It's an NCM battery. So a battery that contains nickel. You've got both AC

17:22and DC charging. DC charging can occur at a maximum of 250 kilowatts, but an average of about 120

17:2885 or thereabouts. So, okay, but sort of not amazing. AC is three phase up to 11 kilowatts,

17:35driving range of over 550 Ks, which is pretty good. Now, the other thing to note as well with that

17:41type of battery is that you don't really want to be charging that to a hundred percent constantly.

17:45It's sort of a 20 to 80 percent battery. So something just worth keeping in mind.

17:49Okay. We've just hit the road in the Model Y Juniper. But first thing I've got to call out is

18:00the ride. They have like totally transformed this. So our Model Y, the previous gen, we were on

18:07the base model with 19. So it was as good as it was ever going to get before you stepped up to low

18:13profile tires. And it was still really firm, just way too firm and too over the top. This on the other

18:18hand, it is like chalk and cheese. It's like you're driving a completely different car. These frequency

18:23selective dampers have just changed the way that this feels behind the wheel to the point where

18:29you would not know that you're driving a Tesla. And something must have changed at Tesla. They must

18:33have fired the ride and handling guy and said, no, it doesn't work. It's too firm. And just completely

18:40changed their strategy because it doesn't feel anything like a Tesla used to. So that is

18:43definitely excellent news. You can hit speed humps at sort of reasonable speeds and not have it crash

18:49through the cavern. So I'm really impressed with how that's gone. So we'll see what it's like when

18:53the speed picks up a bit, but certainly at lower speeds, this is doing an excellent job. So long

18:57range uses a twin motor setup. So you've got one motor on the front axle, one motor on the rear axle.

19:03They produce a combined 378 kilowatts of power and 493 newton meters of torque. Now I'm not sure how

19:10accurate that torque figure is because it doesn't seem like a huge amount of torque for the pace

19:15that this car accelerates at. So it might be a figure that is underdone, but it's the only figure

19:20we can find on this car. So if you do know of another figure, let us know in the comments section

19:25below, but this is all we could come across. And I checked a number of different sources.

19:29Now, what does all that feel like behind the wheel? Nice. Yeah, very good.

19:34Very nice. It's got a very strong punchy push off the line there and even sort of mid-range acceleration

19:43while the car's already moving still feels really nice and strong. So they've done a good job there

19:47calibrating those motors. They've got slightly more range now with the facelifted Model Y. So you're getting

19:53better performance out of that battery. So they've kind of tweaked not only your acceleration performance,

19:59but the amount of range that you're able to get out of the car. Tesla, masters of the single

20:03pedal driving setup and still feels really good in this car. You roll out of it, quite a strong set

20:09of regen, and then it rolls all the way down to a stop where it then holds the brake. So that system

20:15is quite good. It's worth actually touching on this as well. So this is where the gear lever is now.

20:19I mentioned before that the stalk is now gone. You basically put it into reverse and into drive

20:25just using this. If this ever fails, you do have a button panel at the top here that's kind of hidden

20:30until you push it, and that lets you switch between gears as well. Now in terms of efficiency,

20:35Tesla claims a combined average of about 15 kilowatt hours per 100 Ks. I'm jumping over to our trips

20:41over here. I've just got to mention that the wipers just are randomly going off for some reason as we

20:48just drive around. So I don't know what's going on there, but there is definitely no rain in the sky

20:52at the moment. So we're currently averaging just under 17 kilowatt hours per 100 Ks. So not quite

20:59meeting the claimed average, but it's still pretty good for a vehicle this size, especially a long

21:04range vehicle. Typically when you step into the long range cars that have an additional motor and

21:09bigger batteries, they tend to consume a bit more. This on the other hand just seems to be pretty

21:12reasonable. Okay, now time to test the car on our sine waves. Do this at 130 Ks an hour, which is the

21:20maximum speed limit in Australia, and it just gives us an idea of what body control is like when the

21:26speed picks up. And given the last one was so firm, it was quite reasonable through this.

21:33Oh, that's super bouncy. Yeah, so by softening the ride out like they have, they've introduced

21:39quite a bit of floatiness there over sine waves. So you're going to notice that if you're out on a

21:44country road and it's sort of bouncing around a bit. This is probably going to affect it mid-corner as

21:49well. If you hit a bump mid-corner, it'll kind of shuffle the car across. So good, but not sort

21:54of amazing there in terms of body control. Now, given they've softened out the ride, what is it

21:59like on our bouncy road? So we do this at 90 Ks an hour. It's a shocker of a road. It's got lots of

22:06potholes and corrugations. It'll just give us a good idea of what the ride is like. So this feels

22:12fantastic. So when you drove over this in the previous generation car, this was very rough. I'll explain

22:19that noise in a second. This was very rough and not very nice. Even on the condensed sine wave

22:23there in these, this pothole stretch here, it feels fantastic. So glad they've fixed the ride

22:27there. That beeping sound. I complain a lot with Chinese market vehicles, how their ADAS systems

22:33aren't very well tuned and how they can be really annoying. This has to be one of the most annoying

22:38because every time you drive the car, it switches on this emergency lane keeping thing. And if you just

22:43touch a line or get even near a line, it shuts the wheel and it just gives you that really annoying

22:50beeping, buzzing sound. So every time you drive the car, you've got to switch that off because

22:54it is very annoying. So that is something they need to address and fix because it absolutely does

23:01not really work that well. Now, in terms of your drive modes, you access them through the screen here.

23:05You've got standard and chill. So chill, it just sort of dulls throttle response. You can then adjust

23:12your deceleration. You've got the traction control mode, auto slippery surface and off-road assist,

23:19none of which is useful now, and then steering weight as well. Let's go for a drive, a faster

23:24drive around our ride and handling track. We do this in all cars to see what the handling is like.

23:30So brake pedal feels pretty good. Tip it into here. Oh, these tyres aren't very good.

23:42Throttle out of there. Nice. That is excellent. So you can feel a bit of dive there with that softer

23:48suspension setup. But when you lean on the throttle out of these corners, I can feel the stability

23:53control, the biting there. Yeah, when you lean on the throttle out of these corners, it hooks up

23:59really nicely. You've got excellent feel. There's not a huge amount of body roll, but it is these

24:04mid-corner bumps that are... You can hear the traction control going nuts there. That's really

24:10annoying. That stability control setup, you know, needs to be improved. We've had this issue with

24:16previous Tesla products as well, where it's just a bit too hyperactive, and it does it when you mid-corner

24:23and you hit a bump. It ruins the experience. Right now, it's just flashing away there, even though

24:28nothing's actually happening. Punching on the back straight here. Nice. Yeah, look, that all feels

24:34great, but just that stability control really needs some work. I think it is one of the Achilles heels

24:39of Teslas, just their lack of ability to finely tune the stability control to give you freedom of

24:45movement through the corners, or at least offer some sport stability control mode that allows wheels

24:51to rotate, because at this stage, it's just not very well-tuned. And if you want to go for a faster

24:56drive, which you might want to do in this car, because it is quite sporty, you're just going to

25:00get disappointed with that. Same story with the tyres. They're sort of EV-focused tyres, and that

25:05typically means, and certainly in this case with these hand hooks, that you just have no traction

25:08mid-corner. So, it just sort of dulls that experience a little bit. So, better tyres and stability

25:14control tune definitely needs to be on the cards for Tesla. Now, let's talk about road noise. Now,

25:19this is something else they claim to have improved with acoustic glass and a number of changes to the

25:24chassis that have reduced the amount of noise that comes through the cabin. From where I'm sitting

25:27here, it actually sounds pretty good. It's not amazing. On course, cheap roads, you do still

25:32notice road noise coming into the cabin, but it's definitely an improvement over the previous

25:36generation car. We've put it up against our calibrated sound meter. If you do want to see

25:40how this car compares to others that we've tested before, there is a link in the description below.

25:46Let's chat visibility. So, great down the front that you can't actually see the bonnet at all. So,

25:51it's kind of like just a drop-off down there. Reasonably sized wing mirrors, that could be a

25:55little bit bigger. And visibility out the rear is okay, but not amazing. It's quite a narrow

26:00envelope there that you're looking through. So, it could be a little bit better. I wish that

26:04actually fit like a digital rear view mirror. I think that would actually do a much better job

26:08here of giving you visibility out the back of the car. Okay. So, it's time to test our semi-autonomous

26:14systems. We use the three outer lanes here at 70Ks an hour to see how well it works. So,

26:19because the stalk's gone, you now just press this centre button once to engage it.

26:24So, basically, I've got auto steer active, which is effectively just lane departure or lane keeping

26:29assistant with any other brand. We'll see how it goes here. So, working well here in this first lane.

26:36Unfortunately, unlike other brands, if you do use the indicator, it just cancels it and it goes into

26:41a hard regen. So, you constantly have to be on the throttle and doing stuff. So, watch. If I put that on,

26:47it just cancels it, it goes into regen. You've got to then stay on top of it. Okay. So, we'll see

26:53what it's like on this lane. Put that down to 70. There we go. It's doing a good job of holding it

27:01fairly central here in the lane. All right. Our most challenging lane. Not many cars can pass up here.

27:07So, let's see how this goes. So, 70Ks an hour. Forward collision warning. We're actively activating.

27:15Okay. So, it is doing a good job there of holding the vehicle in this lane without any assistance. So,

27:23excellent. Works well in lanes one, two, and three. Awesome. Now, one thing I complained about with

27:28Model 3 Highland when we drove that was how poor this camera-based parking system is that gives you

27:37distances to objects near you. So, let's see if it's any better here in the Model Y. And I used

27:42these cones and the big orange thing over there as an example of it not really working that well,

27:47plus the grass, which I'll try in just a second. But let's just see what it does with these cones.

27:51So, it's detected those. I'm currently on top of the cone. I have run it over and then it's telling

28:01me to stop. So, that doesn't work very well. Let me just try up on this thing over here. Yeah,

28:07Tesla's basically removed traditional ultrasonic parking sensors and instead gone just for a camera

28:13based system. And it really doesn't work that well. So, you can see that object is right in front

28:17of us there. This just, well, it's detected it now. Okay, so it's telling us to stop now.

28:23So, that's actually worked okay, but it didn't work that well with the cone there.

28:27Let's just try on the grass now as well. Let's see what it's like over here with these blades of grass.

28:34Last time it was having a fit because it thought we were going to hit grass.

28:38Yeah, that's actually improved. Okay, so they've improved its ability to drive on grass, which is handy.

28:43It just still struggles with stuff like cones. But yeah, I don't know. I guess the system is

28:49improving. It's certainly better than it was last time. So, that is the benefit of being able to do

28:53software updates. Now, one thing I want to test while we're out here as well is this mode as well.

28:58So, it's got auto shift where it basically will allow you to shift gears without having to touch

29:04anything. Okay, so I've enabled that. Let's go over to our cool sheds over here and just see what

29:09happens if I sort of drive up to it and try and turn around. We'll just pretend we've reached

29:15the end of the road here. Okay, come to a stop there. I want to go in reverse.

29:23Go reverse. Do something. No, that doesn't work. Okay, that's pretty crap. Okay, maybe if I pretend

29:40like I'm doing a U-turn in a street and we'll just come up to this object here. Here we go. So,

29:48to activate reverse, turn the other way. Okay, so that's working. Okay, so see, that's good. At

29:58least it tells you what it's about to do and what you need to do to activate it. I thought it might

30:03just do random stuff, but that's actually not too bad. That seemed to work okay. I don't know that

30:07I would trust it though, to be honest. I would just prefer to just do it myself. But yeah, anyway,

30:11we've tested it. Okay, time to do some performance testing. So, Tesla claims a 0 to 100 time,

30:17which is under five seconds. You can actually buy an acceleration boost for the car as well,

30:22but I think it's like $3,000 or something. It came standard on the launch series, but this is just a

30:27standard long range. Battery's down to 40%, so not ideal, but we will see how it goes. We're going

30:32to go all the way through to 120 k's an hour, so we can see our 80 to 120 overtaking time as well.

30:38But let's give this a shot.

30:43There we go.

30:47Very nice and strong off the line there. That feels really good. Okay, there's 100 and 120.

30:54Very nice. She gets along all right. Just by the way, if you do want to see this drag racing,

31:00a BYD Sea Lion 7. There is a link in the description below. Okay, so 0 to 100, 5.02 seconds.

31:09So, a little bit off the claim time, but probably just because the battery is low. And then 80 to 120,

31:132.99 seconds. That's really good. So, that is the time that it takes to kind of overtake someone.

31:20It is really nice and sharp there, and shows a very strong mid-range for MOL Y. Okay,

31:26let's do a stop from 100 to see what the brake and tyre package is like. Okay, here we go.

31:37Okay, a violent little end to that brake. Okay, so 100 to 0, 2.88 seconds and 40.23 metres,

31:46so really not an amazing stopping distance. Between 35 and 40 isn't too bad. Above 40,

31:52and I think it is down to these tyres. They are very much an EV-focused tyre, and, you know,

31:59you sacrifice grip and, obviously, stopping distance to get range, which is a little bit

32:06disappointing. But, yeah, just something to keep in mind. All right, how quick does it go in reverse?

32:11Let's find out. All right, so 24 kilometres an hour. Okay, so the updated Model Y. What do we think?

32:21Look, this is a massive step forward, and I can't sort of stress enough how much effort they've put

32:26into this, and how much of a step change it is. It isn't just a facelift. This is a completely

32:30different car. Where it is let down, though, the parking sensors, I think they need to make a

32:35comeback. I don't know why they've got rid of those. The current system, I just don't think

32:38works well, and just bring them back. It'll fix that. I also don't like that stability control

32:42tune, but if you are using this as a family car, and you're not really too fussed about going

32:46quickly, or going around corners, and that sort of stuff, it is just the ultimate family

32:50car. Now, what about the pricing, though? Now, if Tesla operates the same way they did

32:55when we bought our car, we spent about sort of 70, 72 plus on roads, the car was then worth

33:0055 as a brand new car about two years later. If they're going to follow the same form, I

33:06would just hold out a little bit, because they will have to drop the prices to compete with

33:10the flood of Chinese cars that are coming. So, if you aren't in a rush, wait about three

33:14or six months. I guarantee, almost guarantee, I'm not going to totally guarantee that they

33:18will drop the price, and you'll be able to buy one. Alternatively, if you don't necessarily

33:21want a facelifted one, they're doing like $10,000 off the pre-facelift. They've still

33:26got stacks of cars they can't get rid of. So, there's a couple of options there, but

33:30if you're not entirely desperate, just hold off a little bit longer, and I reckon the price

33:33will come down. So, let me know what you reckon in the comments section below. Do you reckon

33:37they've done a good job with this? Have you ordered one, or are you going to wait for them

33:40to drop the price a little bit? Let me know your thoughts. If you did enjoy the video,

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