2026 Tesla Model Y Consumer Reviews
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My Best Purchase Ever
The 2024 Tesla Model Y has been an exceptional addition to my life, offering a perfect blend of sleek design, advanced technology, and outstanding performance. Its spacious, luxurious interior and panoramic glass roof provide a comfortable driving experience, while the dual motor all-wheel drive ensures swift acceleration and smooth handling. With an impressive range of over 300 miles per charge and Tesla's extensive Supercharger network, it's ideal for both daily commutes and long road trips. The Autopilot feature and continuous software updates enhance safety and convenience, making the Model Y my best purchase ever. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a reliable, tech-savvy vehicle.
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It's a city girl
I live in a rural area. I mostly drive two lane state and federal highways. Recently we took the vehicle in a road trip. There was a critical non Tesla charger on the trip. That charger was reported down. Luckily it was actually working. Otherwise we carry a charger cable with RV parks 30 and 50 amp connectors. Driving these two lane highways the speed limits are wrong on the nav screen most of the time. In one case the speed limit was forty miles an hour different. The reason I believe is previous long term construction zone speeds were not returned to normal. I haven't attempted to make a bug report in weeks. I tried to report the speed limit problem again yesterday. The car went to the bug report music as punishment immediately. Tesla does not want any feedback from customers. It a very arrogant company. The problem with the speed limits being off is the self driving and autopilot won't work correctly. If you are using it as a commuter or driving the interstate this is an awesome car. The charging infrastructure out west is not built up out of cities and away from interstates The cars shows 310 miles range. At highway speeds you're looking at around 240 miles. In Utah I 70 speeds are 80 mph. We pulled into the Tesla charger at Green River. The temperature was in the 90's. People at the chargers were experiencing battery anomalies. The batteries were overheated. The batteries stopped charging before achieving full. It's a great city car.
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- Long Range Launch Series 4dr SUVMSRP: $47,000211 mi away
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Excited to Buy, Sad to Own
What I didn’t know: The paint is soft, as in, so soft that if you take it through a car wash - even with soft scrubbers - you will have swirl marks in the paint. Additionally, the paint will chip away with every rock that touches the car. Very noticeable if you get a color paint. The seats are very uncomfortable. May have been designed by engineers who have severe head-forward posture and are unable to recognize how uncomfortable the seats are for those with normal posture. Suspension is so stiff and the headrests are so uncomfortable that on any uneven surface (any road not freshly paved), the headrest will hit your head with force. The “automatic” wipers are anything but. That should not have been a tough bar to cross, as most companies have been successfully making automatic wipers for decades. The interior is cheap, and marks up/frays quickly. Essentially, it’s the car you get when engineers who don’t know how to design cars or how to properly drive cars are given free rein. The Autopilot/FSD software drives like a bad 16-year old driver who didn’t take a driving class. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is a much better choice value-wise for what you’ll spend on a Tesla. I will say, the charging network is good.
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Less than advertised
First, Tesla quotes the EPA range of 330 miles per full charge. I found, by keeping continuing track, that my long-range Model Y gets about 220, city and highway combined. Second, the big screen is impossible to navigate, and dangerous to do so, while driving. Third, the weight of the battery makes the ride bumpy and uncomfortable. Fourth, we just learned that we no longer get music free. Tesla will nickel-and-dime you continuously. We would like to sell ours, but the market is not favorable. Ours is less than a year old.
if it only worked....
So I finally decided to buy EV, and went with Tesla, since it had being around for a while, price is good, network is large, etc Decided to do 48 hours demo drive. My local dealer was not able to give it to me for 48hours, but told me to get it late on Saturday, they closed on Monday, so I could drop it early on Monday. So I picked up Model Y. I live about 40 min away from the dealer. In about 20 min after pick up Ive noticed that map started gradually disappearing, until just a red triangle was left (my area has pretty good cell coverage). Ok, I decided I will restart this car later on so GPS will reappear. Did not do it that night though. Left car on my driveway with 47% charge (down from 51 in 40 min, I guess its ok). Early in the morning I started this car and saw that battery charge dropped to 42 overnight. Well, I guess something was draining its battery pretty good., considering auto climate and cameras security were off. Than I was very surprised to see that none of the cameras "were available". Park assist, turn, inside.... Just a blank space with the car picture on its monitor. Did resets, cameras re-calibrations, etc whatever else I could find on internet, nothing helped. I did not contact support, since I was bringing this car back to dealer, did not want to get involved even more. The bottom line, I truly believed that in this many years of Tesla existence, such software (?) glitches make this vehicle unreliable.
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