Tesla Model Y L: A Bigger, Better SUV for China

The rear is hideous.

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What am I missing? Both the front and rear look exactly the same as the standard refreshed Model Y.

Sign me up. That’s exactly what I’m looking for.

Idk how they took such an iconic design and made it look ridiculous. Feels like they threw out their design language just for the sake of it. I loved their Porsche-like head lights. Hated the front on the highland and have no words for the Prius...I mean Model Y.

I don't think they did. It looks exactly the same to me.

How much longer?

7” I think

I think both look significantly better than their predecessors. The fish face wasn't ideal (though still very good looking from most angles).

Personally, I have never considered bigger to be better. But especially a longer wheelbase version of a vehicle. BMW has these long wheelbase Chinese market versions and they're pretty terrible. No extra storage space and terrible handling. It's basically just rear seat legroom so the cars can be used to chauffeur people around.

Bring this to Australia

think they sell well in China surprisingly

looks rank in the attached pics but in person i think they’re pretty sick

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It's 8.5" in total.

Of course. That's the whole reason they make them. They do not do well here tho and have lower re-sale than other models (which is why I looked into them in the first place).

Lmao

Funny how taste differ so much from one to another. Previously I did not short list the 3 and Y because I couldn't get over the frog/fish face. Now a proud owner of the 3 Performance.

If I can get 3 Isofix seats, I’m sold.

I just want six seats

So, Aztec

Instead of "L" maybe it could've been named "Model Y FU" For "Family" and "Uber" also it keeps with Tesla's theme of making poor taste jokes/toilet humor.

Please be available in the UK in the near future

I dont see any difference

Front seats seem different

That is one hell of an ugly rear end

Do you have triplets?

Brauch ich nicht. Lieber ein kleineres Model Y. Würde ich sofort kaufen.

Toddler and twin infants.

crazy how the model 3 facelift is gorgeous but they decided to go in another direction with the Y, making it atrocious. I had money set aside for upgrading the Juniper... then it came out.

Bruh 😆☠️

Sorry where is here? Europe? You can generally get a LWB 7 series, A8 or S class globally but I thought for anything else they were China exclusives?

In China the L Versions aber available on waaay more models. While we get only the S-Class as LWB, you can even get CLA L in CHina. (There also exits a Audi A8L "Horch" as a Maybach equivalent).

Congrats. We had three abreast in a Honda Pilot. I would be impressed if the YL supports that, but it's not coming here (US) anyhow (unless Tesla does the sensible thing and starts building them in Texas instead of CT).

Hope it all goes to the 3rd row. Those child seats are atrocious.

With the horrible turn radius of regular model Y I sure hope they haven't gone for a longer wheel base.

Big Bottom Girls the car

I do like those wheel covers. I wonder what size rim is being shown

Not for you?

Yeah I think America is dominated by single occupancy drivers who don’t care about the back seat. Or you have kids and they do t really need more room.

We need some interior shots!

It is only better if you want a usable 3rd row. That is the whole point of this version. The 3 row regular Y is a joke. I looked into one and couldn’t even fit children in the 3rd row.

7” for the kids

Why china first? You can only have one kid and they prefer smaller cars

Model why why why? Weird.

I wonder how much trunk/cargo area you lose?

I actually like the rear of the Juniper... the front I'm still at odds with. The 3 looks great all around.

> The 3 row regular Y is a joke. I looked into one and couldn’t even fit children in the 3rd row. Even in a Model X, the third row is just 'ok'. It isn't great for full size adults.

The seven seat Y could really use the extra leg room so seems like it would win on the US market as well.

Is it really that bad? (I'm coming from a Model 3)

Too little too late, BYD owns Tesla’s butt in China now… To think that Musk used to make fun of them

Yeah, I believe they have sacrificed some space to leave room for a frunk, but I'm not certain. I used to have a Citroen C4 Picasso that was pretty much the same size, but I never had to do a thre point turn to go head first in my angled driveway before getting a model Y. It might also be because the awd takes up space.

About that much

Really wonder why Chinese like so big cars? Always thought their cities are quite crowded with limited parking. Similar to Japan.

I think it’s common in China for the nuclear family to include the grandparents too, so you often have 6 people to fit in the car - not 2-4

> You can only have one kid That hasn’t been the policy for 10 years. > they prefer smaller cars That’s definitely not true. The Chinese market prefers these longer wheel base 6 seat models, partially because the nuclear family often includes the grandparents as well as kids. I don’t know how much time you’ve spent in China, but they are really big on mini vans there. Much more than the US. I think it’s very obvious why this would start in China, if not remain a China exclusive vehicle. This thing is tailor made for the Chinese market preferences.

Having owned a minivan (town and country) and ridden in the far back once or twice..its horrible back there for an adult. I don't get car sick but its still really bad place to ride. Having said that i hope this extended wheelbase is used in a Model Y pickup truck. Get rid of the cyberturd and make the Y pickup.

I think a significant number of Chinese people who can afford nicer cars can also afford someone else to drive them around, so the owner / adults are spending more time in the rear seats. The exact opposite of the American reason for liking big cars, which is to buy the largest vehicle humanly possible, and drive it around by yourself 99% of the time to be prepared for the 1% of the time you need it (I say this as an american who has a BMW X7 which rarely has more than 2 humans in it)

Which makes us wonder why coupes and sedans are dying in the US while people drive around alone in their SUVs

Six seats? What, like a bench in the front?

To be fair, people who routinely put adults in a third row should look at a van.

BYD is kicking everyone's butt but the Y is still the 3rd best selling EV in China

I think it is unfortunate Tesla didn't try to make an electric minivan with a 150-200 kWh pack (double stacked 75-100 pack), while taking inspiration from the interior flexibility seen in a Sienna and other market leading vans.

Most definitely

safety and like large things

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> I believe only a few hours ago that they reversed this policy I’m not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean that China literally reversed the policy only a few hours ago? The one child policy was dropped a decade ago..

Nice try, Diddy

Looks like the latest gen MYs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the extra room is only going to the 3rd row or to storage space, then yeah, that would make it into a Minivan and could be quite popular in the US. The extra lengthy Chinese versions I've seen only have more 2nd row legroom tho (see the BMW GT models as an example).

We will get in america too! I hope they retain the 7 seater configuration for the non extended one as well as add this extended wheelbase version with 6 seats

As a Chinese I want to say it’s not true. First I don’t know if we are talking about BMW X7 or model y l as a nicer car, if it’s Model y l it’s just a typical middle class car they still can’t afford a chauffeur. If you are talking about X7, yes owners of that are rich and can afford chauffeur, but it’s very different in China as personal chauffeur/driver never drive cars like X7 or Model Y L, it’s always Benz S class or Buick GL8 or something like that, it’s either luxury sedan or minivan, never a big SUV. chauffeur is usually a governmental thing, individual rarely hire a chauffeur because taxi is very cheap and convenient in China. Big SUVs like X7 or other cheaper kinds are just for people to take their family to a trip on weekends and holidays. People just enjoy driving whole family in a same car, another reason is 99% of elder people don’t know how to drive(we don’t have cars back then) or order a taxi, if you want to take them to somewhere the best way is really just drive them.

Same. The OG Y is the ugliest car on the road.

Not sure if you're trying to be racist or FU like f--- u?

Yea like F-- u

The rear end on these new Y's - both this one and the new ones already being manufactured - are hideous  Big, boring, rectangle arse

Same with the regular new Y rear Horrible downgrade

The tail lights are a downgrade in the new 3. The front end is about the same (nose better, lights worse)

Just as ugly as the current new Y

people with two kids, need a three row to bring their two kids' two friends with them to the park or whatever. Or two kids and grandma and grandpa. Everyone hates squeezing into a third row car but it's either that or drunk grandpa falls asleep at the wheel driving grandma home from Joey's birthday at Red lobster

\#smalldickenergy

just around 7" inches ...