As rivals have emerged—some excellent—does Tesla’s electric SUV still have the goods?
and arguably the Model Y's most credible rival, matches that 0-60 time and takes a half-second longer in the quarter. Braking from 60 to 0 mph in the new Model Y was identical to the 2020 car at 118 feet, and after half a dozen hard stops, the instrument panel was displaying a brake-overheat warning. That's no surprise given the Model Y is intended to be driven as a one-pedal car, with regenerative braking doing the heavy lifting. Lateral acceleration was down ever so slightly—0.
The bottom line is that not much has changed with the Model Y in the last three years—and that's what makes it so remarkable. The EV SUV market has exploded in that time, and MotorTrend has driven—and been impressed by—nearly all of the Model Y's competitors. And yet all of us who took a turn at the wheel of this Model Y came away with the same basic conclusion: Damn, it's good.
Take, for example, Tesla's Car Wash mode, which we only know about because a sign at our local drive-through scrubber warns that. When it came time to wash the Model Y, we didn't see any obvious way to engage this feature, so we pressed the picture of a Tesla and typed in the Search box—C-A-R-W—and there it was, Car Wash mode. We followed the onscreen instructions and washed our Y with none of the drama that might, say, require a new sign.
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