Is the Tesla Model 3 Worth It? - YouTube

- Hey guys, this is Austin, and today

we're going to find out, is the Tesla Model 3

worth it?

Hey, are you famous YouTuber Jake Roper from Vsauce3

and Beme?

- No, I'm Michael Cera.

- Alright let's go drive the car,

let's go drive the car.

- You didn't hug me back!

- So it is time to drive the Model 3.

So you've had this for how long?

- I've had this for four days.

- So we're on Angeles Crest which is one of my favorite

roads anywhere, this feels pretty good, there's

a lot of regenerative breaking, that's always

something when I get in an electric car

I let off and you're basically dragging on the brakes.

- It helps you drift.

How does it handle these curves?

- I'm not going fast yet but it feels pretty responsive.

You're not used to being a passenger.

- No I'm not.

- I'm not even starting yet.

So you can imagine that there will be more models

later on but this is the long range battery with

the standard rear-wheel drive, right?

- Yeah.

- So I'm assuming that the all-wheel drive would be

even faster, although probably a little heavier

maybe, with the motor up front.

- Yeah but it will be faster, I mean you can see

that with all of Tesla's cars, between the 85

and then the 85D, you did get about a second

of extra acceleration from zero to 60 with the D.

- Right you just have all that extra, and also

you have two motors.

- You get two motors and you also get more range.

- So what brought you to the Model 3, cause you have

a Model S now, right?

- So I do, well by the end of this week I will not

have a Model S anymore.

- Oh so you're getting rid of it.

- I'm getting rid of it, there's a few reasons.

The Model S is a wonderful car but it's very large,

it's also very expensive, this car is about half

the price of my Model S and to me I can't notice

too much of a difference in terms of fit and finish

in the feel of it, I prefer this one more actually.

- When I drove the Model S on this road it was fun

and you could tell that electric torque is right there

immediately, but the problem was it's heavy,

it weighs like 1,000 pounds more than this.

- But the thing that blows my mind is how well

it turns, cause I thought the Model S turned really

well, but this one, it's just, I keep saying the word

tight, it's just so tight how it turns.

- I heard that some people have complained about the ride

so we drove up from downtown LA with this and on some

of the bumps it's a little stiff.

- And kind of what I was telling you, my Model S

has air suspension, this one has spring,

so it definitely is more stiff and more,

you feel the road more but it's not a huge deal.

- Ready?

- Do it.

(laughs)

- Oh man.

- Oh man.

- Holy smokes, you went all the way up to forty-five.

- Shh, you can't say that on camera.

- I'm sorry, you went all the way up to a nice number.

- So that's one of the nice things about an electric

car, it just punches you, we're going like 40 miles

and hour and you roll into it and it puts you right back

in your seat.

- It's immediate.

- I noticed as we got to slightly higher speeds,

it did kind of give out a little bit, you can tell

it's meant for getting on the freeway versus blasting

down the Autobahn but it still definitely picks up.

- That's why they really only give you

the zero to 60 number.

- Right, that's the thing though, this is such an early

build of the car, it does feel like it's a little bit

of a beta, not everything is complete,

you were saying that the FM radio was just added, right?

- FM radio was just added, auto wipers were just

added as I'm filming this yesterday, with this car

you can only get the premium model at the moment

so it comes with heated rear seats which have not been

turned on yet.

- Wait, wait, wait, you're trying to say that this

has heated seats that you cannot turn on because it needs

a software update?

- Yes, but only in the back seats, the front seats work.

- This is a higher specced up model, the MSRP is 55?

- This was 55,000, out the door but then it's also

$1,000 document and transportation fee.

- Sure, so it's 56,000 in total.

- Excluding tax but then you get the $7,500

tax credit and then in California at least and it depends

on your state, you get a $2,500 rebate, so you save

$10,000 by buying this car.

- Which is a lot of money.

- How does it compare to your car, 'cause

you have a very sporty Audi?

- I have an Audi RS 3 which is a little bit

more on the sporty side, it's faster, I will say

but this feels a little bit like, what's scary

about this is the speed seems way way less

because it's quiet, we were just doing a reasonably

high speed and it just feels like I'm driving down

the road so it's like, in that car that I have,

you hear everything, you hear the motor, you hear

the turbos, you hear the exhaust, this is a much more

calm and serene experience, so this is not something

that I want to go to the track and abuse for six hours.

- Besides the acceleration and what have you,

what is the handling like compared to your Audi?

- It's good, I think with a more aggressive tire

we could be pushing it a lot more, oh here's my tunnel,

we'll forward through it anyway, ready.

Warp speed!

Now just spending a couple minutes with the model three,

something that's immediately jumped out to me

is there're a lot of really interesting quirks with this.

Now the first thing actually you pointed this one out,

the wheels, they actually come off or at least

the arrow part.

- The arrow wheel cover can pop off,

so we can just do, I'm gonna use my muscles,

oh they don't exist.

- I got you.

- There we go.

- The idea is that this is going to help with

the aerodynamics, right, but I actually kind of like

the wheel that's inside, I actually didn't realize

this was a thing.

- It's not bad if you get a Tesla center cap there,

and maybe some lug nuts that match the color,

that's totally fine.

- Looks good.

Now like a lot of modern Teslas, there are cameras

all over the place, so just on one side you can see

that there's a little camera to look back

behind I guess for traffic over on this side,

do you actually know how many cameras there are,

'cause there's another one up here.

- There's here you have there, then you have

some up front, you also have radar and sonar,

then you have the same on the other side

then you have the camera on the back,

all really they give you a complete picture of what

the car is seeing when it does it's machine learning

for actual automated driving.

- So all model threes come with the autopilot

hardware preinstalled, so basically the difference

is you have to pay to unlock it, so essentially

it's a $5,000 upgrade?

- I believe it's 5,000 for autopilot and then they have

full self driving which is another 3,000.

- But that's not out yet.

- That's not out yet.

- But the idea is that if you basically pay for some

software updates, it has all the hardware

to essentially be pretty much fully self driving.

- Oh yeah.

- So as soon as I saw this car, one of the first

things that jumped out to me were the door handles.

So the model S, they actually pop out, with this one,

you actually have to press your thumb in

and then grab the handle like that, it's a little

weird, it's not quite what I would expect.

- I feel like you get used to it right away.

So it's like boom, boom!

- There's actually a surprising amount of room back here,

look at this you have your wonderful window sticker.

- I like to show that off to people.

- So this is for on the go charging if you don't

want to buy an actual EV unit, or Tesla's chargers,

this one you just plug into the wall.

- You have the adapters.

- 120 volt, and then this is the 250 volt adapter,

so you plug it in and it charges with this.

- So here you have your charging port on on the X

and the S it's also hidden behind one of these

guys but this wouldn't open, you push in, ooh,

comes out and then the colors adjust depending on whether

you're charging or not, so that's pretty nice, and then

you just tap it to close.

- Can you actually control that from the screen inside?

- You can actually control it from your phone.

- Of course, naturally.

- So it does come with these things,

I actually should show you, so this is what

the key looks like.

- So it looks just like a hotel key or something.

- Yeah it's like a credit card, so you can use that

to unlock the car and start it,

or you can use your phone.

- Most everything on this car is controlled

via Bluetooth on the app, right?

- Pretty much, you can adjust, you can do most

things in the car as well.

- I really like the way the model three looks from

the front although that is not big, wow.

So this is still the rear wheel drive one, so figure

that there's not a lot of space in here,

I wonder if they actually go all wheel drive

there's gonna be even less space.

- The nice thing too is you can have little holders

for your groceries right there, it's clever.

- Pretty sure you're gonna fit two grocery bags.

- And a small child.

- So the interesting things about this car,

is the screen, because that's basically where

you control literally everything.

- Yep, that's all there is.

- But you can do, to be fair

you can do basically everything,

so you have climate control, you have heated seats

on the bottom, you have your nav screen here

and you have pretty much all the main controls

from the car that you would normally see

in your guage cluster.

- Yup.

And then you would also have, you can go more into

different apps so you have music right there,

but you can bring it all the way up like that

and they have radio, streaming, tune in, all that

stuff and then you adjust all your settings there.

- Something I'm noticing is,

this is really quick and responsive.

- Oh yeah, it's super fast.

- One thing that I think a lot of people are wondering

about and this is something when I first drove in it

as well, was something that was like oh not so sure,

is having all of your speed and everything all on this

side but it's not actually that annoying, I feel like

you can get used to having your spedometer

and your mileage and all that kind of stuff

right off to the side.

- It's right in your peripheral as you're driving,

you can see it right there.

- There are some weird things with the software

in the model three, including the fact that

you have to use the screen to open the glovebox.

So will you show us the wonderful process

of opening our glovebox?

There it is.

- But the thing I like about this is the less

you have, the more you realize what you don't need.

- Right.

- Which I think is a very fantastic thing,

like having all these buttons and knobs everywhere

are nice but how often do you actually use them,

once they're taken away you realize oh not that

often, but this is a fun thing, which is

I wonder if this one could be considered more

design over practicality, but the fact that

there is no way to actually adjust the airflow

with your hand here, physically, you have to do

it this way, which it's a little weird,

I think it looks cool.

- Well if you're on auto pilot here, which we can't try

'cause we're on a little canyon road, but.

- But autopilot I can say having driven autopilot

one point oh with my S and autopilot

two point five with this, it's great.

Let's just say we're going to the Beverly Hills Cancer

Center, which is a lovely place,

but if you're going there, our navigation

will pop up over here, and that's okay,

but when you're driving you then have to look

all the way across this to here, and

that's kind of a bummer, and if you did

let's say we're driving and it goes you know what,

you're gonna get there with negative five percent,

it'll automatically route you to a supercharger

on the way, so it'll make sure you don't die,

well your battery doesn't die.

And you have your charger here so you can set your

charging unit, I have it set all the way

for a trip 'cause we were driving a lot but you

generally want to have it right at the bottom of that.

So you don't do it all the way.

So use for roadtrip, charging will take longer,

daily driving needs.

- After spending the day with the model three,

I gotta say I'm a lot more impressed than

I thought I'd be, of course huge shoutout

to my good buddy Jake from Vsauce three for lending

me your wonderful vehicle to do a video on.

You should definitely go to check out

Vsauce three and Beam and J Cooper and all the other

wonderful projects you worked on.

I feel like you have a specific outro, my friend.

- I do.

- Shall we do it together?

- Yes, are you ready?

- Yes.

- And as always, thanks for watching.

- Was that cool or was that not cool, I don't know.