New 2024 Tesla Model 3 Review: The Greatest Appliance Ever Made

this is the new 2024 Tesla Model 3 and

it's different it may not look all that

different but it is the model 3 has been

updated with some fairly significant

changes its first major revision since

it came out almost 7 years ago today I'm

going to take you through it I'm going

to review the new model 3 and show you

all of its quirks and

features

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for the quirks and features of the new

Tesla Model 3 Highland except it's not

actually called the Highland everybody's

been calling it that but when I borrowed

this car from Tesla they told me they

don't call it the Highland externally in

any marketing materials internally it's

not called the Highland Tesla literally

said to me in an email we don't know

where that came from we don't know why

people are calling it that so it is not

called the model 3 Highland officially

or unofficially that's just a name I

guess Tesla fans have given it which is

certainly an interesting Quirk now on to

the rest so you might be thinking new

model 3 what exactly is different looks

the same as the old one well not up

front the front end design has been

updated you can see the front face has

been changed the headlights have been

changed it's a subtle update up here but

it is different than the old outgoing

model and it looks more modern and same

deal in Beck there's no radical redesign

here but it is different compared to the

outgoing model 3 have a different tail

light design a different rear end design

in general some subtle tweaks some

changes to modernize the look of the car

and the badge is different different

Tesla is now written across the rear end

of the model 3 as opposed to the Big T

Tesla badge right in the center that's

another difference for the new one and

the wheel design has changed too gone as

the old Tesla Model 3-wheel very

distinctive replaced instead by this one

which is new and apparently better for

aerodynamics in fact Tesla says that all

of these changes while subtle have

combined to make this the most

aerodynamic Tesla model of all time to

improve the drag coefficient to make it

even more slippery and aerodynamic and

two new paint colors coming to the new

model 3 there's Arrow gray which

apparently this is looks a lot like the

gray on other model 3s but I guess it's

new and also stealth red which will be

red and stealthy and next up we move

inside the updated model 3 where the

interior has also been tweaked and

revised Tesla says with the goal of impr

improving the feel the quality and the

premiumness which is an actual word that

Tesla used in an email to me explaining

what they're changing although I make

fun of them for that the truth is they

have done a good job of increasing the

premium feel in this interior that was

always a complaint about the outgoing

model 3 it just didn't seem all that

nice inside and now they've boosted

things and made it better specifically

the dashboard you have this new material

here on the top which looks and feels

nice and this live going around the

entire top of the dashboard and

continuing down to the door panel it

includes both aluminum trim which looks

good and a mood lighting element which

also looks nice and you can change the

color of that to be whatever you see fit

but probably the biggest interior change

in the new model 3 comes in back we have

a new display screen back here a new 8in

display touch screen that allows you as

the rear passenger to select configure

change all sorts of things you have for

example movies back here a Entertainment

app section with Hulu and YouTube that

you can select and then watch movies if

you want there's also video games back

here as you can see several different

titles you can play with a video game

controller that comes with the car if

you want to do that and you have climate

controls back here you can adjust your

air temperature fan speed and you even

have heated rear seats now for added

comfort in the updated model 3 as for

other changes to the new model 3 one of

them comes to the center screen you

still have a Giant Center screen that

controls everything like in basically

all Tesla models but it's apparently a

little bit bigger than before and Tesla

says more responsive which will

obviously make life easier and then

there's the new sound system Tesla says

there is a new Next Generation premium

sound system available in the latest

model 3 with 17 speakers which is a lot

of speakers and it should enhance your

sound quality in here also in this

interior you have dual wireless charging

one little charging pad on each side for

two phones and USB C ports in these

Center Cubbies for more charging of your

devices another interesting thing Tesla

has eliminated the roll forward mode

when the car is at idle in the past you

could have the car roll forward to

simulate a regular gas powered car with

a traditional automatic transmission

that's gone now and when you're stopped

at idle even in drive the car stops in

place but probably the biggest change up

front to the new model 3 is the lack of

stocks coming off the steering column

for the new model 3 the stocks for your

windshield wipers turn signals your

shifting into gear all that stuff is

gone and integrated into other places in

the car in the case of the turn signals

it's here on the steering wheel you can

see button for left button for right you

push those and that's how you put on

your turn signal if you want to turn on

your windshield wipers you tap the

windshield wiper button on the steering

wheel you can see it here and then it

pulls up your windshield wiper controls

on the screen and then you select what

it is you want various different wiper

speeds or just automatic wipers if you

want to go into gear and actually drive

the car you have two choices no longer a

stock but instead get in the car put

your foot on the brake and this display

appears on the left side of the screen

allowing you to drag the car upwards to

go forward go into drive or drag the car

back backwards to go into reverse that's

how you can select gears or if you want

a more traditional gear selection

situation you have that on the ceiling

near the rear view mirror you can barely

make out prnd D around the hazard light

button that's an old school traditional

way where you can shift gears if for

example the screen breaks or you just

prefer that to swiping your finger and

one other function the stocks used to

have but no longer is turning on

autopilot you used to press the the

stock down a couple times autopilot

would go on since it's gone now you turn

on autopilot with this button here you

press it on the steering wheel just one

press or you can configure it to be two

presses but either way it goes on and

turns on autopilot so these functions of

the stocks have migrated elsewhere and

now the stocks are gone in an effort to

increase minimalism in this interior and

one other big change for the new model 3

is an intended Improvement in noise

reduction Tesla tells me they've added

AC ustic glass you can see this double

painted glass and made other noise

reduction and vibration enhancements to

this car to try to make it quieter more

comfortable more Supple inside this

interior now Tesla tells me that the

result is a 30% reduction in wind noise

a 20% reduction in road noise a 30%

Improvement in noise isolation and a 25%

impact in overall noise reduction I have

no idea how they measure me those

percentages but that's the goal to make

the car feel more premium with the

materials and with the sound and comfort

while you're driving so those are all

the new changes to the updated model 3

before I get on to General model 3

quirks and features I want to talk over

the two versions of this car that are

available there are two trim levels

there's a base model with rear wheeel

drive it starts around

$39,000 it has 272 M of range and it

does 0 60 in 5.8 seconds or you can

upgrade to the long range model that's

this one dual motor because it has

all-wheel drive that starts around

$47,500 and with the dual motor range

jumps to about

$340 M on a single charge which is

excellent and acceleration drops 0 to 60

in 4.2 seconds now of course the pricing

numbers I'm quoting that's before

rebates that may be offered by your

local or federal government depending on

your situation but those are the

starting prices before those rebates so

those are the basics the updates and

changes for the new model 3 now let's

move on to General model 3 cirks and

features starting with getting inside

your phone is a key you do have a key

card that comes with this car as a

backup but you don't need it you got

your Tesla app you walk up to the car

you phone's in your pocket you press on

the door handle it opens right up and

you walk in and the phone app has a lot

of great benefits related to the car you

can find out where the car is on your

phone app you can schedule charging you

can mess with security and you can even

do various vehicle functions from the

app like lock or unlock the doors drop

the windows or even honk the horn all of

which is neat party tricks but you can

see how that stuff would be functional

too and once you're inside the model 3

you start to notice a lot of interesting

quirks and features for one despite the

minimalist nature of this interior the

basic Simplicity of this car's overall

design it actually has a lot of really

fantastic high-tech features let's start

with the camera system you put on the

turn signal you press that button on the

steering wheel and it brings up a blind

spot camera which is right in your

Center screen so you can see what's in

your blind spot making it easier to make

a lane change now one drawback about

this car's minimalism is the lack of a

screen directly ahead of the steering

wheel like where gauge cluster would be

it'd be nice to see that blind spot

camera in that screen but Tesla doesn't

offer one like some other brands do so

we have it here instead it's still a

fantastic feature you don't get on many

cars another great feature about the

camera system is that you can pull it up

with just one tap of this button on the

steering wheel press it and then your

cameras are up which makes it easier to

park or move around in tight spaces a

lot of cars have great camera systems

better than Tesla but you got to go into

various menus to access them a simple

tap on the steering wheel and the

cameras are up that's great and another

great benefit of the camera system in

this car is Sentry mode when you park

this car lock it and walk away you can

arm Sentry mode where the cameras that

show you where you're parking suddenly

become security cameras that show you if

someone comes up to the car and tries to

break a window or break in steal

something whatever you suddenly have

security cameras all on your car which

is cool possibly the only drawback of

the camera system is the TLA still

doesn't have a top down 360° camera in

this car which is absolutely wild

basically every other automaker is

offering this now makes it very easy to

maneuver in tight spaces easy to park

between the lines or where you want

unfortunately Tesla still hasn't figured

that one out which is disappointing but

next we move on to the other rather

interesting Quirk of this car which is

that a lot of the adjustments that you

see in normal vehicles with switches and

buttons are worked with the screen in

this car it's very interesting let's

start with the mirrors to adjust the

mirrors there's no switch on your door

panel instead you go into the controls

menu you select the mirrors and then

this little switch on your steering

wheel changes the mirrors you can go

left right up down you can see the

mirror is changing as I move the switch

and you can switch over to the other

side mirror and then the same switch

will do the same thing just over on the

passenger side it's the same deal with

adjusting the steering wheel position

you go into the steering wheel settings

menu in the center screen and then once

again this switch will move the steering

wheel up and down backwards and forwards

so that you can position it exactly

where you want rather than a typical

switch on the steering wheel it starts

in the center screen and it's more than

just that you want to turn on your

headlights well guess where you go that

would be into the screen where you can

turn them on there now thankfully you

can flash your brights your high beams

on the steering wheel which is sometimes

a nice feature to be able to have

instant access to but your typical

headlights are in the screen amazingly

this screen control setup even includes

your glove box you want to open that you

got to go into the screen into the

control section and then you press the

part of the screen that opens up the

glove box and then it opens you don't

even have a glove box handle in this car

it is that minimalists now the drawback

to all of this screen stuff is obviously

it complicates some items but it's a lot

of stuff you don't use very frequently

like your headlights you put them in

Auto and the car will kind of take care

of the rest you don't really need a

button or a switch for them however the

climate controls it's a little bit of a

different story that you're using very

frequently and of course it's integrated

into the screen now you have your basic

controls down here you can adjust the

temperature pretty easily here and you

can turn on your heated seats or your

front defroster rear defroster all with

sort of a simple two-step process but

for more climate controls you get you

got to press the screen it pulls up a

larger menu and then you have more work

to do to figure out exactly what it is

you want to use it's not a huge

disappointment or drawback but it is a

little harder to use than other

automakers that have integrated their

climate controls into the screen where

it just takes up a fixed portion of the

screen at all times here you got to at

least do one tap and then a second tap

to do basically anything and a strange

myth that this car has when you turn on

your heated seats in the climate control

setting you turn them on and then it

doesn't display play anywhere that they

are on now if you're sitting in the

driver's seat it seat's getting hot you

don't really need the car to tell you

that it's on but if your passenger

leaves the seat on and then gets out of

the car it might just stay heating same

deal in the back with no icon to let you

know that it's on kind of a weird

decision a little disappointing with

that said one absolutely fantastic

feature of the climate controls is

something that Tesla calls dog mode the

way this works is you can leave your dog

in the car even on a hot day you're

going shopping normally that would be a

very bad thing it gets hot inside the

car and the dog could die but if you put

the car in dog mode you can leave the

dog inside lock the doors walk away and

the car will keep the interior

temperature at a reasonable 70 some

degrees Fahrenheit to make sure that the

the dog stays comfortable even while

you're outside the car doing something

else and then it even says on the screen

while you're away hey the dog is

comfortable don't worry it's nice and

cool inside the car just so people don't

freak out when they see a dog in your

car in a hot parking lot it's a neat

idea that Tesla came up with where you

can lock the doors and still keep the

climate control going for your dog's

convenience now while it may seem like

too many controls are integrated into

this screen I did find one cool shortcut

that makes life easier if you're sitting

in the driver's seat driving the car and

you hold down the button on the left

side of the steering wheel it pulls up

sort of a hidden menu that allows you to

adjust various things from the steering

wheel using the button you can change

the climate control temperature here the

fan speed and a wide variety of

different stuff pull up the camera even

open up the glove box turn on the

defroster all from this like quick

button press on the steering wheel which

is a cool idea now one big drawback in

this car to going stock lless and

putting all of your controls in the

screen is the windshield wiper situation

I mentioned to turn on the wipers you

press this button on the steering wheel

and then you can adjust the setting you

want your wipers to be on most people

will leave them on automatic except the

automatic wipers in this car just aren't

all that good it rains quite a bit

before they actually start to turn on so

you're constantly having to make manual

adjustments which isn't that easy when

it's not just a simple steering column

stock you got to press the wiper thing

and then scroll over to the wipers you

want and constantly change them up and

down it would work great if the auto

wipers were better but but they're just

not and there's other cool stuff inside

this infotainment system display Beyond

actual functional things just some fun

little quirks and features and Easter

eggs that Tesla has hidden in here for

example you can change the sound of the

horn this is the current horn sound take

a

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listen okay fine but that is boring you

can choose from various different other

horn sounds if you'd prefer like for

example this indignant British man well

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never well I

never well I never okay so that's funny

and check this out you can also change

the color of the display car that is

shown in the screen right here right now

the car is roughly the color of the one

I'm sitting in but you can adjust what

color you want it to be and you can even

choose between metallic paint solid

paint or matte paint if that's what you

want to see you can totally change

whatever is displayed never really seen

that level of configurability for a

simple ins screen display car before and

of course just like in back up front you

can also play games there are video

games integrated into this infotainment

screen there's even a driving race car

game where you use the actual steering

wheel of the car to drive around I've

showed this in other Tesla videos before

the integrated video game system of

course you would only do that if the car

is parked you're sitting somewhere

waiting for someone you're bored well

you can play video games in your model 3

and also just like in back there's even

a theater setting where you can pull up

various different apps you'd use to

watch entertaining programs including

Netflix Hulu Tik Tock and even YouTube

you can watch Doug De Muro review a

Tesla from the comfort of your Tesla if

that's what you wish now beyond all the

technology in this car there is still a

few cirks and features worth noting and

the rest of the stuff even though it is

tremendously minimalist in here for one

thing I love the cover over the visor

mirrors which doesn't sound like

something that you would form a

relationship with but it's really cool

you open it up and then it's magnetic so

you can split it in half so you can have

the visor mirror open but the cover

isn't getting in your way and it's just

a really neat design the way they've

created this something that basically

every other manufact should follow also

worth pointing out you have storage

cubbies in the center console here this

Center armrest lifts up for storage and

the furthest forward compartment also

pushes open for storage I also like how

this compartment pushes open there's a

little tab that comes up over on the

right side to push and then the

compartment next to it has a tab on the

left side to push so they don't Collide

makes it easier to open them by the way

that other compartment the left side tab

that's your cup holders you can open

that up and then you can store drinks in

here or keep everything closed to really

maximize the minimalism and take a look

around this interior you will notice

there are no climate vents in here there

are none at all you don't see them in

the traditional places on the dashboard

so how does air get into the interior

climate air conditioning heat the answer

is there is a climate vent but it's

hidden under this panel on the dashboard

there's one long climate vent that goes

all the way through now when I first

reviewed the model 3 way back in 2017 I

had the very first review I was unsure

whether this would be enough to actually

get air into the interior to make it

warm or cool but it works quite well

actually and it's not visible so you can

keep the minimalism theme going without

sticking climate vents on the dashboard

as for climbing out of the model 3 you

don't have a traditional door handle

like you do in a lot of cars instead

there's a button located here on the

door pole you press that and then it

electronically pops the door open and

you can climb out just in case the

electronics fail or the battery dies

there's also a backup solution a

physical mechanical door handle located

here next to your power window switches

you can pull on that open the door and

climb out as well without the electronic

mechanism but if you pull on that door

handle a little warning comes on the

screen and tells you the window trim may

be damaged I guess that's because when

you get out the traditional way

electronically the window drops a little

bit to let you out but if you get out

the mechanical way it doesn't do that

which could over time cause damage to

the trim kind of an interesting warning

haven't seen that one before as for the

trunk the cargo area there's really

nothing new here you pop it open it

opens up electronically which is a very

nice luxury touch and it's not a

hatchback despite its long sweeping rear

window design the model 3 does have a

traditional trunk like a traditional

sedan and that continues in the new one

but you open up the trunk and you can

see it's quite large actually despite

this car's look with a kind of stubby

rear end it has a large and cavernous

cargo compartment where you can stick

whatever you want and there's even more

space on the side you can see a

compartment here for more stuff same

deal over on the other side and

underneath the floor lift this up and

there's actually a fairly large

additional compartment where you can put

even more stuff and just in case you've

maximized all of this cargo space and

you still want more you can it up front

the front compartment also opens there's

a small but relatively sizable front

trunk up there where you can put even

more stuff for even more storage

capabilities finally we move on to the

overall design of this car I mentioned

what is new but as for what is quirky

the answer is well not much the model 3

is intended to be a very generic looking

car and it retains that look there's

nothing particularly quirky or weird

weird or controversial about the way it

looks one interesting item though on the

outside worth pointing out is this

little piece on the fender this is one

of the few like style touches that the

model 3 has and even that is actually

functional that's where the camera is

mounted for that blind spot camera that

I showed you earlier the one that comes

on when you put on the turn signal

that's where they mount the camera so

even though there's a little style

element on the front fender that too has

a purpose all right driving the new

Tesla Model

3 which I say in an exciting tone but

the thing I've learned from driving this

car is it is not an exciting car at all

you know it does 0 to 60 quickly it's a

it's a it's a fast car but so is every

electric car now you know there was a

time when that was a really cool

advantage that Tesla had over other

vehicles but now with the proliferation

of electric cars we've we're all used to

going 0 to 60 in 4 seconds or 3 seconds

uh if we spent any time in any sort of

higher term electric car and so that in

itself does not make this car exciting

and other than that the steering and

handling is is kind of numb the steering

is very quick and I think that Tesla

does that to disguise the fact that the

handling is not particularly great

there's more body roll than you'd want

it's not particularly flat around

corners uh it's definitely not intended

to be a sports car nor is it one I

borrowed this car from Tesla for a week

and the thing that I've learned driving

it around for that time is this is not a