How to describe the looks? I won’t dwell too long, because you can make your own mind up, but a videographer colleague described it as looking like a generic car you would nick in the Grand Theft Auto video game that’s sort of meant to look like something else but doesn’t quite do so or maybe one from an insurance advert where they take a real car and digitally remove its most distinguishable features. Just 27mm of that goes into increasing the ground clearance to 167mm, so the body height is stretched by more than 150mm, which should do headroom a favour. It’s bigger than the Model 3 – only by 50mm in length (so it’s 4.75m long) but a full 181mm in height. Australian pricing is still to be announced. It will understandably cost a few grand more, with UK prices starting at £54,990 ($101,679) and deliveries are due to commence early next year. It completes Tesla’s core line-up of S, 3, X, Y models (Ford wouldn’t release the Model E name it owns) and is effectively a crossover version of the junior sedan.

If you know about the Tesla Model 3, you will already know quite a lot about the Model Y.

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