FIRST DRIVE TESLA MODEL 3

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Motor Trend's Kim Reynolds gets a very exclusive first drive in the all-new Tesla Model 3 with Chief Desinger Franz von Holzhausen!

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00:00 In our business there are exclusives and then there are exclusives and this is about as exclusive as it can get.

00:06 Morning. How you doing?

00:11 Good.

00:13 How you doing?

00:15 Good.

00:17 [Music]

00:44 Okay, here we go. This is it. This is the first mile.

00:50 First impression. I feel the road. Is this sort of a firmer, sporty suspension?

00:58 It's a more huddled suspension. This is our team.

01:02 Okay, so it's a sport-oriented feel to this car right off the bat.

01:06 I think what you'll notice right away is the direct.

01:10 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice torque.

01:12 The steering effort is a little light on the light side, which is fine.

01:15 So we have different settings.

01:17 Oh, you can change that.

01:18 So you can change the steering settings.

01:21 Oh, okay.

01:22 Standard mode.

01:23 Okay.

01:24 You can put it into sport and see if that feels a little.

01:25 Okay, yeah, I do feel the effort go up a bit.

01:27 A little more effort.

01:28 Yeah, that's very nice.

01:29 So you can kind of tune it to your feel.

01:31 Okay, and it obviously has the regen that Tesla has really popularized.

01:36 So you have a standard and a low regen setting.

01:39 And again, that torque is great.

01:40 So is this motor shared with any of the other variants?

01:45 It's not.

01:46 So it's a brand new motor?

01:47 Yeah.

01:48 Okay.

01:49 There's a nice bit of tremble through the steering, you know.

01:51 Just enough.

01:52 And that's good.

01:53 Yeah, it's exactly what you don't want.

01:55 Nothing.

01:56 You do want some vibration.

01:58 So the brake feel is very linear.

02:03 So the car, it feels nimble as heck.

02:06 I mean, it's great we selected this road because you wouldn't realize it.

02:09 Back there on Mulholland.

02:12 Because it really has a very nimble, quick-reacting feel about it.

02:18 It's really cool.

02:21 I have to tell you, this thing is really cool.

02:23 I came here expecting cool.

02:25 I got cool.

02:26 Really cool.

02:27 Fantastic cool.

02:28 Really cool.

02:30 For what you've created here.

02:31 Cool.

02:32 All right.

02:33 What I hope is that they fall in love with the car.

02:36 They realize that an electric vehicle is better than an internal combustion engine vehicle.

02:43 That those things become obvious with the drive, the ownership experience, and just the general usability of the car.

02:50 And that they love their car.

02:52 Tell their friends about it and get everybody into a more sustainable future.

02:57 future.

02:59 (upbeat music)

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