Look at that.
- [Zach] A rear view.
- [Back Seat Passenger] This is insane.
- [Driver] All right, everyone's in, ready to go?
You got some seat belts on?
- [Back Seat Passenger] Yeah. - [Zach] Yeah, sure.
- Cybertruck.
Let me play this demo for you so you guys can see it.
- [Passenger] This is awesome.
Glass roof and everything. - [Back Seat Passenger] Wow.
- I'm gonna call your attention here
to the 17-inch TV display.
This is the navigation route that we're taking.
I'm just gonna go directly up to Jack North, 5th Avenue.
Do a little bit of a zero to 60, then come back
and let some other people have a chance.
- [Zach] Which one is this?
The 2.9 how fast is zero to sixty?
- [Driver] This is the dual motor car.
- [Zach] Dual motor?
It's still quick.
Haha yeah!
Yeah buddy
- [Back Seat Passenger] Feels like your truck there Zach.
- It's smooth.
This is twice as fast as my truck.
(laughing)
- [Driver] Easy right?
- [Zach] Easy.
- [Driver] So super low center of gravity.
the battery's directly below us.
The highest concentration of mass
and then you've got multiple ride heights
as well as multiple damper settings
to allow us to either soak up all the bumps
or, you know, make it a little bit stiffer
so it handles more like a 9-miff.
A 9-11 and adapts directly to your driving style.
Notice huge amounts of glass above you
and if you look behind you, you can see the bed.
Directly between us here,
you can see we are sitting pretty far apart.
That's because there's a seat between us.
- Oh cool.
- [Back Seat Passenger] That's where that seat is.
- [Zach] Yeah, cause it said it was a six-seater.
- That's right.
- [Back Seat Passenger] Is that real marble, the dash?
(laughing)
- Put some D Brand skins.
(laughing)
Oh they're gonna love that!
(laughing)
- All right.
Cool I hope you guys had fun thank-
- So this was a unique experience,
so thank you first off to Tesla for inviting me
and giving me media access because
now I can tell the story with all of you guys here
and it is a pretty cool story.
So the thing about this vehicle is that you can't really
get a sense of the size of it just from pictures.
When it pulls up and you're standing there
you realize this is a Hummer sized vehicle.
It's massive.
Whereas on stage and all the other shots of it
it was hard to kind of tell so that was kind of telling
and really lead to what the interior of the car felt like.
So in the interior, it was really big.
Easily the biggest Tesla that I've ever been in
and I think at this point I've been in them all.
And that was refreshing because definitely
even in the Model X it can feel a little cramped sometimes
especially in those back seats
but here we had three, you know, full sized adult males
in the backseat and it didn't feel crammed at all.
Now in the front seat we had the two
and then there was the third seat right in the middle
that folds up and honestly looking at it
it looked like it would be fine.
If you were on a job site or I don't know camping
or something using this truck for something.
You could totally do that.
I could see it totally working
for 3 full size adults fitting in that front seat
along with the three full size ones in the back.
So this gives them a six seater with only two rows.
Not a third row.
So really, cool really good design and I think a lot
of people are gonna like that aspect of it.
The glass roof was incredible
and this is coming from a guy that drives a Model X
on a daily basis which has that full size
kinda monorail glass roof.
This one seemed just infinitely larger and more open
so I sat in the back and that's where you can
get a really good sense of what this brings and
how it makes you feel.
Almost like you're not in the cab of a vehicle
but you're just kind of out in the open air.
So this was really unique and really cool.
Now there is a pilar right above
where the kind of angle of the triangle roof.
I don't know if it's called a roof
but the triangle part of the roof is.
But because of the position of it
and because the windshield goes
so far back you can't really tell.
It's kind of out of your what we call, foveal view point.
Now if you look up obviously it's there
but in general it felt very open and spacious inside
and that was a really cool and really great job
by the Tesla team.
Sitting in the back, looking forward you had
a very plain white seat back.
Which was an interesting choice.
I'm not sure why that was.
The door handle area seemed pretty standard.
Common to what you'd find in say a Model S or Model X
but then up front you had this marble dash
which looked kinda bizarre
and when I asked the guy about it he was strangely silent.
- [Back Seat Passenger] Is that real marble, the dash?
(laughing)
- Put some D Brand skins.
(laughing)
- [Back Seat Passenger] Ah, they're gonna love that!
(laughing)
I think he was actually on the phone.
He had an air pod in and as we were getting out
of the car we hear him talking to someone
so I imagine the comms team and him were kinda going back
and forth about who's getting in, what's happening,
et cetera et cetera.
Hey you know maybe you need to go charge, maybe you need
to do this, whatever, just constant communication.
So I think that's what was happening there
but it was funny that Zach mentioned putting a
D Brand skin on it because it definitely felt like
that would be possible to do here
and make it whatever you want.
So D Brand, if you're listening what's up lets do this.
I would love to to check those out
if you ever get a chance to do it.
So that was kind of an odd feature
but maybe one that was kinda cool and unique
and I imagine that when they release this
they'll have a bunch of different options for you
or you know, at least ways to customize it
that aren't crazy.
Another weird quirk that I noticed from the interior
but I didn't get to drive it myself
so maybe it's not a big deal,
was the missing top and bottom of the steering wheel
where you had this very much roadster looking
race car steering wheel.
It did have knobs on it just like the Model 3 knobs
so you can see they basically borrowed
all those design queues
and probably just the exact same parts
to make that happen but that seemed a little odd to me
and I'm not sure what that would be like after driving it
for a week or a month.
So down the road when I get a chance to actually have one
and drive it and all that and maybe experience it
it will be a different story
but right now it seemed a little strange to me.
However the guy driving it didn't seem
to have any ,you know, any problems with it or anything.
So maybe it's a non-issue.
Now the touch screen was interesting
because it was the Model 3 landscape layout
but it was bigger.
It was 17 inches instead of 15 inches so that is good.
Especially in a vehicle this big.
Why would you need a small screen?
And granted it is a big screen in comparison
to a lot of other vehicles
but compared to say the Model S and Model X
it seems relatively small.
So good job there.
And it also had an updated operating system.
Which I'm not sure if this is gonna be version 11
which I assume we'll see next year around the fall.
Which is kind of the cadence
of when they release new major versions
but there's some little interesting quirks about it
and mostly what I notice though is just a different font.
So more to come on that obviously
and maybe we will do a deep dive into that if I can sit down
and spend some time really kinda picking apart
what was in there but as of now, you now,
that was kinda the interior layout from the front side.
From what I could tell given my vantage point.
Now when we pulled out on to the road
and he floored it we, it pulled,
the car was definitely going fast
but it didn't feel like the more performance style Teslas.
Now the guy did say that this wasn't the performance model.
So that would be that.
Obviously there's only one in existence.
So I'm not sure, you know, where Teslas getting some
of these other numbers from
because they don't have an actual vehicle
to test at this point it's just an estimate or guess
or maybe a target.
I have no doubts that they'll be able to hit those numbers
but the acceleration in there while was great for a truck,
it didn't at all feel like a Model SP100D
or my Model XP90D or even a Model 3 performance.
So it doesn't really, you know, hold up to those other ones
but we'll see what it's like
once the actual performance model, the tri-motor design,
comes to market.
Now in the drive he did say it had a low cg for center
of gravity but given that this truck is 16 inches
off the ground, which is way above anything else you can buy
on the market today as a standard production car,
I'm not sure that I would agree with that.
Maybe for a truck it is
but it definitely felt a little floaty
when we were turning there.
Again, when you're comparing this to say a Model S
it's just not even in the same ballpark.
So compared to other trucks, yeah,
this was incredible driving feeling
but when he was kind of talking it up I was a little bit,
you know, like, okay, okay whatever.
It's not actually what you would normally experience
or expect in a performance Tesla.
But compared to another truck, this thing is gonna
be an absolute monster on the road.
So that's it for my first ride
and my impressions of getting a test drive in this.
I really can't wait to get one
and see what it's like on a day to day basis.
I did not order one, but I'm gonna rent one
or if you guys have one and wanna let me borrow it
for a week to do the impression.
Hit me up, let me know
because I really want to get my hands on it
and experience it more
than this little two minute test ride that I got.
So that's it for now and always don't forget.
When you free the data, your mind will follow.
'Ill see you guys back here in the next one.
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