Tesla Model S PLAID Owner's Review: Things I Love and Hate!

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1. They should've put buttons on the back of the joke, sort of like triggers for the blinkers. I also hate that you can't configure things in most cars, I want to have buttons for macros for example, so on one button there's home address, the other might be for connect with my phone etc

2. Having to manually raise the (super-lightweight Aluminum) hood. Oh the humanity!

3. I have seen these Plaid do 170MPH + in a half mile track. And think the Steampunk upgrade gives the gaming.

4. Doesn't that Carbon Ceramic brake package allow to unlock a higher top speed as well? Also, think it's come down to $10K?

5. I really feel like Tesla is the Apple of the car world. They're great at marketing and flashy features. But at the end of the day, the decisions they make rarely benefit their actual customers.
   I love the physical knobs and buttons in my car, they make adjusting the A/C super easy and quick while driving. I'm glad I have a physical turn signal stock, it works 100% of the time.
   Now, can my car go 0-60 in 2 seconds? No. But it accelerates onto the freeway without issue and is fun to drive since it's a stick shift. Hopefully car manufacturers stop trying to integrate everything into the center screen sooner rather than later.
   Great video as always, MKBHD!

6. Thanks!

7. tesla = joke company.

8. Мужик а ты непутаеш трех двигательная? Спереди двигатель а с зади расположен двигатель и модуль силовой автоматики на нём задающий вольтамперные характеристики обоим двигателям(3 сварочных инвертора)).

9. Your face looks terrible in that camera… Which one is it? Just really bad pink blush all over, and…the processing skin tone, is just bad. Especially when it's dark, when you're inside the car

10. Tesla design approach here is to make sure that the driver will pay more attention looking on the screens than it is on the road. Next items to be replaced… Accelerator and Brake pedals with touch sensitive floor with vibration feedback… followed by… "You'll get used to it"

11. I've known for more than a decade that capacitive buttons for things like this ARE WRONG

12. https://youtube.com/@mClaren115

13. If my new tesla doesn't have stalks – I'm cancelling the order..

14. If you have that plaid logo and it's not aftermarket it means you have one of the first 25 from the delivery event. It was hard to tell but looked like yours was an aftermarket one but if not build quality improves quickly eg the screen you showed as seemingly loose – the new plaids have a motor in there and you can tilt adjust to passenger or driver quite a bit. Yours had most of the functionality but not the motor itself, probably the reason. I bet they can retrofit that.

15. I would get the steering wheel replaced under warranty for that blinker issue! Mobile tech could do it, I've removed the wheel on my 3, it's easy can be swapped in 10 mins right in that parking lot.

16. How is one hand driving?

17. The newer Plaid's have Steam games built in, just released recently. You can play almost any PC game, including Cyberpunk. It's on YT you can find it.

18. How does somebody pay $140,000 for a car?

19. This was a very good and very fair review, keep up the good work!

20. I don't know if you'll see this, MKBHD, since the video is a week old at this point, but I'll try…

    How willing are you to switch from the S PLAID to someone else, EV of course?
    and
    What would it take to get you to jump ship?

21. Video idea: Testing the full self-driving beta in a city with unconventional road layouts/intersections, like Boston or Pittsburg for example

22. Yup, every car should have build in dash cam

23. Should change the wheel configuration in the car it shows the 20s.

24. Ugh another youtube influencer to bore me!

25. Steam was added in the recent holiday update, allowing cyberpunk to be played

26. I can't wait for you to find something better

27. Too much bad design.

28. One fyi—you should be able to control hvac and fan speed using Tesla’s voice commands. Ie. Decrease can speed, increase temperature, turn on face vents etc.

    I can on my model 3 so can’t imagine why your car would be any different

29. looks awesome as f

30. what you are saying, 30 miles lost in only 30k miles. That is not normaI. My model 3 with 127K miles in 3 years has lost 35km its like 20miles and i've used supperchargers everyday in tne first 1-1,5 years

31. I normally use voice command to control fan speed. Good review!

32. Thanks for this review. Now I'm sure I'm never buying this thing. I'll be getting a hybrid or EV from any other company.

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