I quite liked the sales process of Tesla, not being stuck in the bureaucracy of commission hungry car salespeople is refreshing.

I have my Model Y since last 4 months and I am still discovering new features in it. Amazing car.

7:38 - the Tesla being the first car of it’s likeness that I have ever driven, I would prefer to not drive any other. There is an amazing sense of openness and calmness about the cabin, especially from the driver’s seat, without all of the typical lights and dials flashing about. It’s such a serene drive at night along a dark road. It’s comfortable, but feels like you’re outside almost. Uncanny. Different? Yes. Better, much.

Keep in mind stuff like the glove box, wipers, etc., respond to voice control. Once you have the car personalized in your profile, you never need to touch the screen while driving.

I'm mindblown over the boot space. I have a typical box SUV and the Model Y has double? What... 🤯 Great review, about to order mine ⚡

7:54 - it’s not bad. In fact, after using it for a few months now, it’s better. Here’s why: adaptive cruise control. Set the speed for whatever you want and the car does the rest - no need to faff about with knowing what the speed is, because the car does it for you. 2. The speedometer has what the posted speed is right next to it. Very useful. I didn’t realize how many times I would like to know what the speed limit is at different times throughout different trips - and the car has your back all of the time. One quick glance at the speedo and you can tell what the posted speed limit is as well as the speed your vehicle is actually traveling. Which again, doesn’t matter anymore because the car is doing most of the work.

Excellent video, very informative and great to hear some of the owner’s experiences and input too. Looking forward to part 2! 👌😊

You can have nice black hubcaps with little money for 19-inch wheels. Much better and cheaper option.

I have the white seats. They clean up easily and surprisingly don’t easily get dirty. Also, the touch screen turned out to be a non-issue. The only “gauge” info you need in an EV is speed. I also avoid using touchscreen while driving by using voice control.

Great video Euan. Love your humour! Love the info you are very well informed about these cars plus your own views. Makes for an enjoyable watch.

What this shows is how car reviewers are trained to look at superficial stuff like looks and interior for the simple reason that these are the only things that differentiate ICE cars and have been for decades. This reviewer was trained to look at cars with a front grill and he doesn't like it if he sees a Tesla. Think a minute about how silly that is! The same goes for folks that have been learned to want a lot of buttons in a car. The more the better, right? It shows you bought more options! Contrast that with the real cool things you experience when driving a model 3/Y: fast acceleration, fantastic handling, silent driving, the mind blowing efficiency compared to any other EV out there, the wonderful supercharger network, Tesla mobile services, the no haggling buying experience, and so on.

Good job at breaking out the pros, cons. You get at a lot of useful information. You hit on the big advantage of everything screen controlled -- even Teslas sold years ago get updates changing how everything works making the car more responsive, safer, more features. Usually you'd need to buy newer.

Fantastic review! Thank you so much!!!

I just took delivery of a 2023 model Y performance in red with black interior. Simply amazing vehicle and I am just as enthusiastic about it as the gentleman hosting the video. Great video and am looking forward to the next one 👍.

Got mine yesterday. I love it too. Autopilot is amazing. One day of it convinced me to buy the FSD subscription and hopefully get FSD beta soon

I just purchased the 2023 Model Y long range vehicle and should get it in 4 weeks or so. I got all the standard items for the Model Y and no EAP or FSD addons. Did buy the mobile charge kit to do 220 volt charging at home. I like that this vehicle is an AWD dual motor for our winter weather. I got the Model Y because it is a nice Hatchback style vehicle and enough storage for me. I preferred the 19 inch wheels/tires and they say we get a little more range with them. I got/like the Black seats, similar to my current Monte Carlo which is now 20 years old. I am retired, single, so most of the time it will be just me driving the Model Y. Controls are very simplistic - most control done from the display, which is good for me. There is a nice helpful voice command control for use while driving. Buying experience was very easy for me in the US. The Tesla facility was both Sales and service. Did a test drive in a Model Y, then placed my order for the vehicle. So that is about it for now on my Tesla. take care.

Great video, informative and well presented. Looking forward to part 2

19:00 - agreed. Super bad. Sometimes my wipers come on for no clear reason, and stay on until I go through the touchscreen menu and manually turn them off. It doesn’t rain often where I live, but my wipers come on sometimes when I use autopilot, for no apparent reason.

I got my model Y LR in September 2022. My current insurer reluctantly gave insured it on the understanding that I didn’t get the acceleration upgrade and that I wouldn’t use auto steering. They also hiked my premium by 20%. I was going through a broker and was told it was considered a performance car. My renewal was 40% cheaper though. Am in Ireland. Love the car and love your video

Great video and love the car. Looking forward to part 2!

Really good video. Strange that a car that doesn’t appear big has so much space in it

Excellent Video! Thank you and Happy Trails! 😎👍

You won’t sit for 1-2 hrs charging unless you use a last decade charging solution. For one, you don’t have to sit in the car at all while charging. You’d be getting coffee, eating lunch, visiting the loo, etc. on a Tesla supercharger station, you’ll likely be there for less than 1hr. I average 25 to 40mins max depending on how much I’m projecting to drive next day. Most charging happens at home, overnight.

I would disagree that the coupe-like proportions are form over function. No, in case of Tesla it's not only design, it's aerodynamics. Body shape serves the goal to reduce drag and thus improve range. It's matter of taste but I like the design of Model Y and I'm ready to sacrifice some boot height for a bit better range. I used to have typical SUV and I did not usually fill the boot to the roof 😀. There is however one occasion where this sloping roofline is a big disadvantage, if you plan to tow a trailer that is higher than the boot. I did tow one like this, and it reduced the range by allmost 2/3 and tried to blow off the soft cover tarp of the trailer. I suppose the car body directed the airflow down and boxy trailer was directly pushing against the wind.

Tesla is insuring their own cars for quite a bit cheaper in US in many States. I think that will roll out Internationally.

I really enjoyed your review, I am looking for a suitable family car, and I am thinking about the Model Y LR and a used Model S 100D, which do you think is better value for money and overall better buy and better car ?

Both Tesla's speedo and a conventional one are in your peripheral vision when you're looking straight ahead. There's no need to turn your head, just turn your eyes towards a different part of your peripheral vision. On the subject of colour options, Tesla's working towards more choice but this is economically smarter so far. The majority of the market are not looking to stand out, the seriously huge sellers are individually quite anonymous. 3 and Y fit that role perfectly. I'm surprised they haven't sorted out the suspension yet.

Where did you get the vinyl number plates? I'm tempted to swap mine out as it looks so much cleaner!

Wonderfull! I totally agree. Only Points, Suspension litle stiff, whipersautomatic is a desaster, but all other great ❤❤❤

A very nice review!

Great in-depth review! @10:53 re voice control, it works VERY well for me (American accent)... even recognizes international street/destination names for satnav... but is poor at recognizing names for contacts in phone though. They recently added British English for voice recognition, perhaps it does better in UK now? but, which accent, isn't clear... maybe need Scottish/Irish/Welsh also ;)

Progressive insurance for our Model Y Performance is just $595 for 6 months coverage. Not bad at all.

I am not sure why people have issue with the styling. I think it is beautiful.

My 6 year old son knows how to open my model y doors easily. I think the bigger issue is the internal locks. He can quickly press a electronic button to open the door when driving. Yes, I know there is child lock featured but you know how annoying those are when I park and he can't open his door. I wish tesla would rework this and offer a feature to have child locks off on vehicle park. But on when driving.

Good vid

You can tell the difference from the outside if it's model X and S from other models. Model X and S don't have Tesla logo from the outside. They have the word TESTLA written from the outside. You can tell model X from model Y by looking at the door handles from the outside. Model X has a handle between the front and back door (the door opens upward).

is the front plates painted on?

You quickly get used to it. I dont miss the standard car info one bit.

Have you tried the 19 vs 20 inch in terms of ride quality?

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Great review. My only dilemma is what colour to get! Love the black on black alloys, but dirt and the fact that I have only only owned black cars makes me think I should go for a change and get the white with black 20inch alloys 😅. Not sure if the chip issue would be the same for the balck paintwork.

You didn’t show the back seat recline function!

So if you have netflix already, you can't just log into that, you need a separate tesla membership?

We all do our own customized idea

Model S looks good.

Keen to know about the ride - apparently the suspension is very hard

I want a Tesla!

What??? the Y is the best looking car of any type not even close

Porsche Bug baby lol

The problem with Tesla is the cost of repair is very high and insurance would total the car more easily than others. In US when it's the fault of under-insured or uninsured, your own insurance would foot the bill.

Insurance is very expensive as there are so many parts that can't be fixed and need replacement. Add some damage to motor, battery or charging port and you are the worst client an insurance company can have.

Imagine how much better it would have been if you bought one in color. 😂

I absolutely love the looks!!!!!

Door close is not what I’d describe as quality.. unless your comparison is a Lada lol

I think my 2020 model Y was built by someone who had just put in their 2 weeks notice with the company. The fit and finish, road and brake noise is horrendous.

The paintwork on the front of these cars is soon going to be a dinged up mess, damaged by stones & various debris. At least they will if you drive them in Australia.

Only a complete idiot would want a car that farts unless you are a child , and knobs for heating and aircon are far better and safer, it's not only Tesla who doesn't have these. The build quality on the Model Y is terrible, press on the bonnet with your hand and watch how it flexes , it's paper thin . The reason the car is so minimal is because it makes the manufacturing of the car cheaper and quicker, the bottom line for an everyday car is how comfortable it is ,not it's 0-60. One of the gremilins with the software is the automatic stopping, sometimes the car will stop for no reason very dangerous and very frustrating . Tesla doesn't have local dealerships, you buy direct from Tesla online this will affect the customer's ability to get a deal on price like we can at the moment with VW for example, you just get quotes from different dealers and pick the best one, all dealers are in competition with each other. The other issue will be getting serious problems fixed at a Tesla service dept, Tesla don't have many of them. The biggest problem I see with the Telsa model of selling cars is the terrible trade-in valuations they give you, most people end up selling their own car. This would be all fine and dandy if the other car manufacturers stay with the old way of selling cars, with a dealer in every major town and multiple dealers in cities, with this you get a local service dept and you can play one off the other for a better price. But why would car manufacturers continue to spilt their profit with car dealerships when they can just sell directly to the customer and take all of the money, all they need do s just copy the Tesla model, shut down all the dealers and service depts and introduce a Ranger service.Then we will all be either leasing our cars or trying to sell our second cars privately to someone who doesn't have a trade in , the price of second-hand cars will fall off a cliff if that happens .Tesla updates usually do nothing or very little, these updates won't be free in the future, a bit like the way Microsoft stop supporting their software after a few years. Telsa has proved that good marketing will win every time, they are changing the way cars are sold and not in a good way.

1. The sunroof gets hot in summer. There is no retractable cover built in 2. The rear window is useless as it's too narrow to look out of it. 3. No apple carplay/android auto 4. Super uncomfortable ride. The suspension is stiff that everyone sitting inside the Y feels every bump through the chassis 5. The seats are uncomfortable. You are sitting on the seat rather than in the seat. 6. No HUD 7. No speedometer 8. Cheap build quality 9. No 360 camera when you are reversing or moving forward 10. Auto wipers barely work 11. Autopilot barely works 12. No cargo cover is supplied 13. No mobile charger is supplied 14. No type 2 cable is supplied 15. Tesla keeps dropping their prices every couple of months making owners lose $ for they paid and quickly depreciating there vehicles. 16. Tesla vision is rubbish 17. Matrix headlights barely work 18. KZfaq app in tesla is limited to 360p making it next to useless 19. No cross-alert traffic system 20. Elon musk

Kind of ugly styling, IMO.