this video is sponsored by Hoya miles Tesla's been in the news lately but for once it's for
Price Cuts instead of price hikes and it's got people angry and confused and happy and
everything in between for example my old Tesla just dropped like twenty thousand
dollars in value because of resale values but also buying a new model y has never been better
and I decided to finally pull the trigger and get one so this is the third row model Y and I
think it'll be perfect for our family and that's what we're talking about today on Two Bit da Vinci
all right so the reason why we want the Y is I believe it's close enough to an SUV to get the
job done and it has that third row and we're going to do a little test to see just how practical it
actually is okay here I am I am six feet tall and I'm in the front so I've got plenty of room
I can even probably move up a little bit but I'm sitting at that yeah I am so I'm sitting back here
I'm good I'm hop behind myself here we go into the second row still very roomy I could sit back
here on a long road trip just fine room for the knees and the head and all that is fine finally
there's the third row I got my guys back here one big difference between when I bought my three and
this Y is I have two kids now Ray how you guys doing back there Rems so good there's room here
for the isofix points for two car seats we've got one here at Ray Raymond stand up and say hi
to the camera back here and this is not going to be common we're going to normally have these in
the front row but let's say my mom and dad came to visit my wife's family we could put the car seats
back here both of our kids and then we have a true seven-seater and there's plenty of Roomba Remy
I'll trade you places you sit in front I'm gonna get back here and see if I fit how does that sound
cool let's do it let's hop out getting back here is not easy again this is not a proper SUV it's
just kind of a close enough SUV all right okay now it's a moment of truth here we go
okay I am actually I'm fitting back here my knees I don't know if you can capture
that they're kind of touching uh and as far as shoulder room I'm pretty close to
that car seat and I'll tell you this glass is going to be tricky all right door down test
okay the door's down do I fit no I I would have to slouch like this to fit back here and this is
we knew this going and we're not surprised we
made this video a couple years ago this is not a seven adult SUV what
half of why we did my feet are just in there not too much room but yeah not so bad
um now they're talking to the other guy and um I really don't know how to move the seat
let me out oh that's how that works never mind I'm good okay so I could technically fit but
this is really not safe my head is touching the glass and I would have to sit like this to make
it happen oh Remy can you move over one I forgot you were there all right really quick I want to
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okay how are your knees and are you touching no you can fit all right 5'4 wife does fit
now again I'm back here so depending on how you arrange the people if you have children shorter
people it's possible but for us with two kids for the next five to eight years while they're still
young this is going to be hugely practical and look the bottom line is what other choices did
we have there was the model X which is a little bit bigger but it's not that much bigger and I'll
be honest with you the model X doesn't really replace our third row SUV either this is closer
way way cheaper which is the biggest draw and then there's the rivian r1s which I'm not gonna
lie is probably the EV I like the most right now but first off I bought one today I'd get delivery
in like two years or I could buy one on Craigslist at a really ridiculous marked up price around 120
000. two times what I paid for this car and that's kind of the gist of it this thing being
a hatchback is so practical these things fold up putting car seats in and out also this car
is three inches wider than the model three and that means if you have two car seats in those two
spots a normal adult could still fit on the third row so you could theoretically have like three
or four car seats a person three three adults or different configurations and between all of those
and the new price drops we just did it we just did it we got the color we wanted uh we didn't really
go out looking for these rims but this car had them on there and we said we'll take it
so finally the other reason why this is not a true SUV is yes you can sit seven people but
look what happens to the cargo area now there is one Saving Grace and this is one of my favorite
things about all the Teslas is there's a massive storage bin back here that is big enough for like
an Airline carry-on luggage so you put one of those and then you close it off and then
you still have all of that but because of the tapered profile not a lot of stuff fits back
there a traditional stroller am I right will not fit back here but maybe a travel one will
all right so let's leave the travel stroller in here okay and my wife is going to bring
the full size this thing is a monstrosity I personally hate traveling with this anywhere
we go because it's just so huge but let's see how this fits Remy what do you think is it gonna fit
you think no real what do you think rays are gonna fit
all right let's try this I know okay so here's the problem so it actually does fit that way but
as you can imagine the glass is going to come down here and it'll contact that these wheels come off
yeah this is the same strollers did in that first video all right we'll
take the travel one out that does go in the front trunk oh interesting that
does work so if you were traveling with like if you're just going around town going to Sea
World or something you can make this work even with the full 7c configuration but
if you have people's luggage and stuff this is not going to work right okay uh really quick while I'm
here there's one more thing in the front of the car I want to show you so the new Teslas have a
heat pump heater which is awesome because they're way more efficient they should use less energy
for heating in the winter but the need for that reversing valve and the fact that these ACS can
run both Heating and Cooling means this part of the car has been shrunk down and I've confirmed
that the depth of this front trunk inner cavity is smaller than my model 3 from 2020. so this fits
flat in the model 3 but it doesn't fit flat here as you can see so as a result we have to kind of
put at an angle but the cool thing is this being a bigger car it still does fit and this is what we
have in the front all the time is that travel stroller in a pinch wherever we go that would
pretty much take care of it and that big stroller is just such a hassle in general we normally don't
take it unless we need to all right here we go Moment of Truth will the Stroller Fit oh
hey guys
stylistically I prefer the model 3 the model 3 to me is the more handsome car
the proportions are nicer this kind of feels a little bit bulbous but in this red with the
black accents and stuff it does it does look pretty good now a five-seater model
y not interesting to me because my model 3 can do that there's a little bit of extra room but
it's not that big of a deal if you have a bigger family if you've got the kids or smaller people
it's interesting enough because if people came into town to visit we can't take the Tesla we
used to have to take the gas car and now we don't have to we can actually fit in here so is there
any reason not to get the third row well first of all it's about four grand extra it's a lot
of money right I understand that and also it does eat into some of this floor space on the
five row options with these seats folded down there's a secondary cavity for even more room
that is now taken up with this so all you have is this one in front but it is still so massive
that is decently practical what do you think I think this might be the best family EV you can buy
a couple reasons why the prices are now I think more in line with what I think it's worth and the
third row option is just enough of a feature to be able to justify a bigger vehicle over a sedan
and three Tesla supercharging Network this is the road Tripper if we go up north if we go anywhere
this is the car that we would take and when we do that I want to know that my charging is
going to be seamless that's why as much as I've tried over the last two years to drive every EV
out there and there are some amazing cars VW id4 comes to mind Remy what's your favorite TV
Evie is the one that I'm sitting in this month why it's a good answer from a style perspective the
ionic 5 is the one I would rather have but it only has five seats not doesn't change our life in any
meaningful way the Rivier r1s would be my favorite EV right now but for the money uh if we bought one
today it would be two years to get one or we could buy it on Craigslist for a 120 double the price
hard to justify so when you round everything out together I still think this is just a killer car
software update do you know how Tesla's going to be with software it's going to be killer
they're going to add features all the time and the supercharging network yeah we've been eyeing
this car for a little while it is still a ton of money and I'm still kind of getting over the shock
of it all but our other car is three years old so it's kind of time to think about doing this
and I'm thinking we'll keep both and the model Y is officially in the family if you have any
questions or you want us to like measure some stuff or whatever leave us comments below we're
happy to oblige and check stuff out as far as a more in-depth driving review we'll get to that
later as well but I'll give you a couple of pieces of feedback really quickly in the 100 miles I've
driven so far if you look here the front glass has a laminated makeup here which we can see in some
in the on the side profile and this means the car is way quieter this car is significantly quieter
than my model 3. the model 3 suspension feels like a luxury car the performance is super luxury you
know highest end kind of Porsche levels but the the noise in the cabin is like a Honda Civic it's
just a loud card on a long road trip it kind of matters but this car and the 100 miles I drove
felt like a Mercedes or an Audi it is quiet like significantly quieter and combined with
the much quieter interior cabin is the sound system compared to my 2020 this thing sounds
incredible it's vastly improved this might not be a wide thing it might be all their new Tesla cars
I'm not sure but it sounds fantastic especially when you couple it with the quieter ride and then
there's a lot of the little refinements that Tesla's been making over the years I mentioned
the heat pump uh heating which should make for a more efficient car there's a nice charging pads
and heated steering wheel I think I saw and just overall I think it takes everything I loved about
my model 3 and makes it family size right the reason I want to keep the policy performance is
for me as a daily driver no contest this car is higher up off the ground there's more body roll
it's not for me I'm a sedan sport sedan kind of guy so the model 3 Performance is going to be the
car that I have most of the time probably no car seats and then this will be the car that these
guys are going to be riding around in right and as as a family loading the kids into their car
seats it's that much easier because you're higher off the ground the room of the of the third row
yeah I this thing is just a fantastic package it really is there's no surprise I I didn't just come
up with this idea this is like the best-selling EV out there and for good reason it just makes sense
for so many people and if driving long distances is a part of your plan Tesla is really hard to
tell thank you can you can you can you say hi to everybody Ray do you like your new Tesla
so yeah if long long distance travel is a part of your plan that you're not going to just be driving
around the city model Y is going to be a slam dunk all right so that is a really quick first
look at our new Tesla Model Y super pumped really excited to now put it through its paces and have
it join our stable so if you have any questions or comments or anything else you know what to do
leave them below we will try to answer any of them that we can uh there's gonna be a lot of
interest I know because of the new pricing and I think it just lines up perfectly with what I
think this car is worth so yes we'll talk to you guys soon everybody come on let's let's get out
of here before it starts to rain too much welcome to the Roy family here my son's Remy and Ray my
wife Claudia thank you guys so much for watching it was our idea to make this video about a year
ago when we first drove it and that video has like 600 000 views so hopefully this adds a little more
value I'm Ricky DaVinci we'll catch you guys next week don't forget to subscribe foreign