So I wanted to give you a quick kind of viewpoint of someone who has had
a Tesla Model Three for two years actually, and compare it
to the Volkswagen ID Three, which I'm driving right like now as we speak.
And so I had a Tesla Model Three
performance, which probably is a truly fair comparison.
However, living with the car and everything is
going to be very much the same as if it was a standard Tesla.
So it just depends what you're trying to compare here.
But what I can say is that the Tesla is so much more simple to operate.
So, for example, the entertainment unit
in the Tesla is also just one screen and it's really intuitive.
Like you just pick it up, you just go in there and then you just
find your way around a bit like the iPhone.
When that first came out, they didn't even have an instruction manual.
It's just here's the phone and just use it.
And so that's how it was with the Tesla. For me anyway,
it was just really straightforward to jump in and just work out how to use the radio
because it's all just push, push, push, and it's done.
Whereas with the VW ID Three,
it's okay once you get to know it, but it's still not that great.
It's a bit laggy.
What do I mean by that?
I mean it's just a bit slow.
Like when you basically jump in the car,
you have to wait a little while for it to sort itself out before you can link up,
maybe Apple, Airplay or something like that.
And then moving from one thing
to the other is a bit slow, the voice controls a bit slow,
everything is a bit slow and a bit useless compared to the Tesla.
But as I say, once you find your way around, it's not too painful.
But overall, the Tesla wins that war all day.
And as for performance,
it was quite hard going
from a Performance Model Three that does like zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds compared
to this car, which on paper I think it's about 7.6 or something like that.
So there was a huge difference.
However, this is quite nippy.
I think other people on YouTube have done
zero to 60 tests on this car and hit sort of 6.6, something like that.
So it's quite nippy.
And if you're coming from a petrol car,
you are not going to think this car is slow at all.
It zips off the line, obviously, instant talk with it being electric.
But it's not Tesla fast,
not even the standard, which I've also driven as well for a few days in Miami.
The standard is pretty rapid, to be honest.
I think that's about 5.2, something like that.
So it's not as rapid as the Tesla.
Build quality, however, is much better in this VW ID Three.
And I noticed that the second it was delivered to me.
Let me just change the subject quickly here.
By the way, guys, I didn't buy this car, the VW or the Tesla.
I got them from a company called Onto and I subscribe to them.
So there's no
there is a monthly kind of contract, one at a time, one month at a time.
You can have this car instead of leasing
it for three years or something with on two, you can just have the car
for a month if you want, and then everything is included with that.
So your insurance, your electric charging, you get 1000 miles a month.
You can add more miles if you need it.
So that's how I'm getting my cars now, the Tesla I did for two years like that.
And this VW ID three, I'm doing it the same.
So yeah, different cars altogether.
But no talking about performance.
We know the standard models are in is pretty rapid compared to this car.
But build quality, build quality is so much better in the VW.
I've got to give them their dues when I got this delivered and I swapped over cars
the same day, everything about the VW just feels rock solid.
You shut the door and it's nice
and strong, and it makes up their reassuring clunk.
The steering wheel, just everything in it
just seems to be a little bit better build quality.
Whereas the Tesla, obviously, you get people complaining all the time
about the panels not lining up and all of that stuff.
Most Tesla owners don't seem to care, to be honest with you.
It's all about the tech,
the speed and the enjoyment and being an Elon Musk fan and all the rest of it.
And having a great charging network.
They're not too fussed about little niggles like that.
Whereas people who really value
the quality of the car and the way it's built and everything,
they're not going to jump in the Tesla and really feel that way, in my opinion.
My experience, whereas this car feels pretty well built, there's plastic events
all over it, which isn't nice, but the actual build quality feels a lot better.
For example, when you get in the back seats of a Tesla or you drop anything
on the floor, you can hear like this metallic.
It feels like you're dropping something on a baking tip.
You can hear like the floor.
It feels really thin and tinny, which isn't great for what is supposed
to be a fairly luxurious car in a Tesla Model Three.
But again, that's just my experience.
I didn't find it that great for that side of things.
But the other benefit, of course, is that you have got that Tesla charging
network, and that has been really useful sometimes, because occasionally with this
car gone to charge someone's on it, there's one charger.
You can only charge one car at a time of that charger.
And other times the charges broke and it's the only charger for miles.
So you went to Devon recently or Coleman, and that was a problem.
Now and again, that was a problem.
Whereas there was charging networks with good old Tesla and they had eight
charging stations and only a couple of them were taken.
So from a charging point of view, having a Tesla is just a winner,
especially if you're doing long journeys and stuff like that.
You're going to really want to have a Tesla at this point
until the infrastructure of charges in this country is really improved.
At the moment, if you're doing long
journeys, I'd have to say you've got to go for a Tesla and there are some other good
cars out there like your Jaguar ipaces and your poles tar twos and stuff.
But I personally if I'm getting another car, it's probably going to be the Model Y
when that's released, the Tesla Model Y because of that charging network.
So yes, overall I would say that the cars are on par, but the Tesla is faster,
simpler to use, has a better charging network.
The VW is better built, has some nice lighting features.
The actual headlights of this car are brilliant.
This is a really good the best lights I've ever had on any car on this VW.
Id three. They're very intelligent lights.
I'm not sure of all the techy terms more
then, but what I can tell you is on full beam and also full beam.
If you have a car that you catch up
with in front of you and suddenly your full beams there,
it just blocks out the area of the car and leaves the full beam on all round.
All the bushes and the sides of the road
is all lit up just as it was, but just stops blinding the car in front.
And it does that by having lots of little
Led lights and it can just switch off certain ones that would otherwise cause
a problem to what's in front of the driver in front.
And the lights also move left and right as you turn the steering wheel.
They're there so you can kind of see round
bends before you get there and all this kind of stuff.
So the lights are fantastic on this car.
That's one of the standout things.
There's other safety features on this car
that I'm not keen on at all, which is the steering.
It's like an auto steer.
And sometimes when you're moving out of a Lane or things like that,
it tries pulling you back into your Lane and it is a nightmare.
Sometimes you find yourself fighting with the wheel a little bit.
Not much you can overpower it, but sometimes it's a bit of a shock when
you're just casually coming off the dual carriage way and it's trying to pull you
back in or there's one of those blocks in the middle of the road,
Bolas and everything, and you have to wait your turn to the other person.
So you're in a Lane and then you try going out of the Lane to go round the bollard
and it's trying to pull you back in the Lane.
So there's some weird things about this which I don't even know how you switch it
off either because the infotainment system is a bit complicated but it is.
Despite all this whinging about the VW ID
three, it is overall a good solid electric car that I really quite like
and it's been a nice sort of change from the Tesla.
However, give me a choice of two cars next to each other.
The Model three even standard versus this car and I'm just going to have to still
pick the Tesla Model three so that's my opinions.
I'm only a normal guy driving normal cars and not a pro YouTuber car reviewer person
so I hope you found this relatively useful.
Sorry if I've been rambling.
If you wouldn't mind helping me out get
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I'll do more videos of electric cars as and when I get hold of them which will be
fairly frequently and then the other thing is that if you want to sign up with
a view to subscribe to your car in a way that I've said versus buying it or leasing
it there's a code underneath you can use when you sign up.
You have to use it when you sign up otherwise you won't get £50 off your first
month subscription with any car they have and they've got VW ups,
they've got Renault Zoe 208, Audi Etrons VW ID three s various ones.
All kinds of different cars that you can have.
So not just this one and you use the code
and it gets me £50 off my month subscription and it gets you £50 off.
So we're both winners.
Ultimately.
Thanks very much for watching. Any questions?
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