I BOUGHT MY DREAM CAR!
Well guys, I finally did it!
After years and years and years of literally, I’d, I’ve never owned my own car. After years of just riding a motorcycle and just bashing that around to get from A to B, and riding in the rain and all those horrible things, I finally decided to pull the trigger. I bought my dream car! You guys know exactly what it is; there’s no use even hiding it. There it is, baby! Tesla Model 3 Performance!
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So here it is, white Model 3 Performance. I absolutely love the multi-coat white that they do on these cars. This is a 2021 model, so they just refreshed the Model 3, and this is it. This is the refresh! You notice, if you’re a keen Tesla follower, they’ve got new wheels. So these are the 20-inch Uber turbine wheels.
Man, this thing—I’ve had it for about a month—and this thing is awesome! I think the biggest first takeaway from driving a Tesla is that once you get used to it, once you go back to another petrol-powered car, it feels as though the petrol-powered cars are just from so far in the past. It’s really quite something else! But no, this car is awesome! It’s got, I think, a 75-kilowatt-hour battery pack in it. That’ll get me roughly just over 500 kilometers if I drive it in chill mode and not in sport mode, which sometimes I drive it in chill mode.
Um, but yeah, that’s the other thing about this car: the performance is absolutely unreal! This thing will do zero to 100 kilometers an hour in 3.3 seconds! So it is blisteringly fast! It’s a different type of power to something that you would experience in a normal petrol-powered car. It’s a constant pull of torque, and that torque just stays and stays and stays, as opposed to in a petrol-powered car where it would taper off over time. But this thing absolutely flies! It is so much fun!
I would definitely encourage you, if you get a chance to go in a performance model Tesla—whether it be the Performance 3, or a Performance S, or even a Performance X—definitely take that person up on that opportunity! Go in and feel it for yourself because it is something really quite remarkable!
But anyway, this is the exterior of the car. I’ll open it up in a second; actually, we can open it up right now and I can show you guys some of the spaces, some of the storage that this car has, because it’s got a lot!
Of course, the most odd thing about the electric vehicles is they’ve got no massive engine in the front, so they’ve got space in the front of the car for, you know, bits and pieces. You wouldn’t be able to fit heaps of luggage in here, but you know, a couple of shopping bags—whatever—you could fit easily in that space.
And this is actually really handy if you’ve got a pretty chockers boot, which is where we’re going next! And this might be difficult to see, but I’ll probably edit over a bit of b-roll so you can actually see the boot space. This boot space is huge! It’s enormous! I’ve got my gimbal in here at the moment, but you know, I could fit in—I will, I’ll fit in here easy!
And if that amount of boot space isn’t enough for you, you can even open up this latch here, and there’s even more boot space down below! So it’s got a lot of room! And a pretty cool little feature is this: the power liftgate! So all I have to do is press this button, and the boot will close.
But here’s a little—here’s a little thing that’s a little bit extra; with Tesla, they always like to go one step further. Say you’ve got a garage that, you know, maybe that would hit the roof, you can just lower it a little bit. Hold this button for three seconds, and now watch this! I’ll shut the boot, open it up again, and it will come up to that exact same point! How cool is that? Just something that’s a little bit extra!
Anyway, that’s about it for the exterior of the car. Next step, we’ll get on the interior and check out what’s going on inside.
All right, here we are on the inside of the Model 3. Um, man, where do you even start talking about a car like this? Well, first things: pretty cool! It’s currently set to easy entry, but I’ve got my driver profile saved. So I touch the brake, it adjusts everything for me, which is pretty awesome!
I guess the thing to talk about mainly with the interior of the Model 3, because it’s very minimal, is all of the controls. There are two buttons on the steering wheel, there’s the hazard button overhead, but apart from that, everything else is on this massive touch screen.
Um, which people say, “Oh, is it weird, you know, looking at the touch screen to know how fast you’re going, or you know, what gear you’re in, or, you know, whatever?” It’s totally not an issue! Totally not an issue! It takes you all of two minutes to get used to, and now just like you train your eye to look down at your speedo, you just train your eye to look very slightly to the left to see the speed!
But yeah, this is the center screen; as you can see, this is the default layout where you can see the car—obviously, we’re in park at the moment. We can tap on the battery; we’ve got 53 battery at the moment! Um, we can get rid of this, and this is our navigation, our map. So we can type in where we want to go.
You’ve got all of the standard buttons that a car would normally have: your demisters, your volume, heated seats—so seat warmers, if you want. You’ve got your air conditioning controls, and to change your air con flow, you just grab, and you pinch, and you pull it around like that. How cool is that? That is such a cool feature!
And it does change, because you can have a look: the air conditioning vent is just one long vent across the top of the dash! So you can just pinch and pull, adjust, obviously your fan speed. You can turn it onto dog mode, which is a pretty cool thing if you’ve got a dog.
You can keep the dog in the car as you go to the shops because you can keep the air conditioning running, and you can set the interior cabin temperature to whatever you want while you’re in the shops. So that’s pretty awesome!
Apart from that, you’ve got all the other things, like the toy box. You can play games if you’re in park mode! So there’s heaps and heaps of different games which you can play if you would like! Windscreen wipers—they’re automatic, but you can change them if you would like.
What else we got here? Charging, we can see our energy usage, which is pretty awesome! You can see here your energy usage went up; I might have had it in sport mode for that little bit. And then you’ve got your reverse camera; you’ve got your other cameras as well if you want to look, and then your music!
So you can tap into Spotify, you can play the radio, whatever you want. But this is the boring part! Let’s buckle up and let’s get on the road!
So interestingly, no key, no ignition. That’s something that took a little bit to get used to; it’s all on your phone! So your phone recognizes you’re walking up to the car, it unlocks the car, you hop in, and then the car—it’s just like when it’s in park. It’s just like how your phone is just on the lock screen; it’s locked, you know, it’s not doing anything, but it’s still on.
So same thing with the Tesla; it’s still on! Then you get in, you put your foot on the brake, wakes the car up, you’re ready to go! Your drive stalk’s over on the right; you push it all the way down, and have a look! Now we are in drive, and we can go!
So I’ll fast forward this bit of us getting out of the car park, and I’ll see you guys on the road!
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Now, I took the car here deliberately because it is a wide-open road with basically nobody here. We’re actually just out near Canberra Stadium; this is the road that they use when there’s an event on at Canberra Stadium. So if there’s no event on, basically it doesn’t get used!
So I’ll show you this: what everybody’s really looking for—driving in sport mode! Sport mode saved, and I’ll just give ourselves a little bit of room. Find a spot, and then we are going to launch it!
So obviously you guys can’t feel what this 0-60 feels like, but this is what it looks like. Ah, far out! Oh man, if you ever have the opportunity to go in a performance Tesla, take it! Because seeing it on YouTube, seeing people’s reaction—that’s one thing—but feeling it for yourself, that’s something else!
It’s very strange; it feels much different to a normal petrol-powered car! A petrol-powered car, there’s kind of that delay and then it pulls you back as you shift up the gears. This thing, one gear, and it’s go!
So it definitely feels much different! And the torque and the power is just immediate! As you put your foot down, you’re going, and it just keeps pulling and pulling and pulling! It feels unreal!
All right, so here we are; we’re just going onto just a normal two-lane 80 zone here in Canberra—there’s plenty of them! And with autopilot, you can see here that shaded-out steering wheel just means the autopilot is available. The car is recognizing that we’re in an 80-kilometer-an-hour zone.
Now, if I just double tap on the right stalk, the blue lines come up, and that means that the car is now in autopilot! It tells me, obviously, just to keep my hands on the wheel, which you have to do, obviously, legally. Although the car is, in most situations, perfectly capable!
So autopilot; it’s obviously auto steering. I’ve just got the basic version of autopilot; I haven’t upgraded. It’s also automatic distance keeping! As this car in front of us slows down, I’m not doing anything; the car is also slowing down to keep some distance between us so we don’t just career into the back of this car!
And as the car speeds up here at the green light, our car, the Tesla, is also speeding up! So it’s very intuitive! That’s what I’ve found out about autopilot! You know, regular cruise control just feels so—it feels like it’s from flipping 20 years ago! I mean, obviously, cruise control, you set it, and you’re just going to keep going that speed until you tell it to do something else.
With autopilot, it keeps the lane pretty darn well, keeps the distance! If something’s in front of you, like right now we’ve got a red light, and the car is just going to come to a stop! You can see I’m not doing anything right now! Nothing at all!
And the car is just going to slow down, slow down, slow down, and it’s going to come to a perfectly reasonable stop just behind this car! And we can sit here at the lights, and when the lights go green, then the car’s just going to gradually speed up as the car in front of us does!
And you can see here, the blue lines are still on, so it’s still figuring it out itself! It’s still doing all of it itself! It’s, you know, it’s even recognized—I don’t know if you can see here—the red lights! It recognizes the lights coming up, and the lights are red!
And then when we get a green light, the lights will turn to green, and then off we go! It recognizes that there’s a cycle lane to the left of us, recognizes the two cars that are parked to the right of us; there’s also another car coming up in that lane!
And you can adjust this so you can see what’s going on around your car as well! So you can see there’s a car behind us, current front three cars to the side of us, and nothing really going on over to the left!
All right, light’s green! I still haven’t done anything; I’m just holding onto the steering wheel and the car just does it! The only other thing that I should probably touch on as well, which is really interesting driving the vehicle, and this is definitely the first thing you notice that’s different about this car versus petrol-powered car, is that when you take your foot off the accelerator, the regenerative braking kicks in!
So watch just ahead! I’m just going to take my foot off the accelerator, and in fact, I have to put my foot back on the accelerator because it stops so quickly! So we came to a stop for that intersection, and I did not touch the brake!
And that is definitely, when you’re actually driving a Tesla, the first immediate thing that sticks out to you is the regenerative braking! You take your foot off the accelerator, and you don’t just roll forever! The car wants to suck all that energy and put it back into the battery!
So it’s really quite an interesting feeling! But I have to say, now that I’m used to it, I really like it because it means it’s basically just one-pedal driving! Because the car comes to a complete stop if you have your foot off of the accelerator for long enough!
So you really can just adjust whether you’re accelerating or braking just from applying the accelerator, which is bizarre! And that’s why people experience that the brake pads on the actual physical brake pads last as long as the car does on most Teslas! Because you can come to a stop using just regenerative braking from the motor, which is just ridiculous!
But that’s another thing which I found really cool, which I definitely didn’t expect would be that powerful and would stand out that much! It’s definitely the thing I noticed first, coming from a petrol-powered car, hopping into a Tesla, was that really fierce!
And I think you can change it; if you don’t like it, you can just turn it off! But it makes sense! I mean, harvest that energy of stopping, of slowing down, and put it back into the battery and improve your range!
So overall, I hope you guys have enjoyed this little glimpse into my new car, my Tesla Model 3. This has been absolutely a dream come true to actually get this car, and you know how much of a Tesla nut I am!
So yeah, it’s just an absolute dream come true! And I really have to thank all you guys for, you know, following the channel, supporting the channel, and, you know, really enabling me to be able to get this car and kind of buy into that future that we all know is coming, and we all really care about!
That, you know, renewable energy and electric vehicle future. So yeah, this is it! This is the new car! Thanks very much for coming along, and thanks for coming for a bit of a drive with me!
Um, and of course, check out my second channel down in the description below if you would like to follow more Tesla adventures! Um, but apart from that, guys, that will just about do me for this video! And I’ll see you guys back to our regularly scheduled programming later in the week!
I’ll catch you guys later!
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