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we've done a lot of verses videos a TechnoBuffalo usually it's on like a much smaller pocketable scale but behind me we have the biggest verses we have ever done literally and figuratively we've got a Tesla Model 3 and it's big brother the Tesla Model S there's about $28,000 separating the entry level points from these cars and that's a lot of money that's another car price value difference you get a lot with the Model S you're getting a ton with the Model 3 so we're gonna walk you through the differences between the two and figure out the twenty eight thousand bucks is better left in your pocket or put it towards a big brother so before we start let me clarify a few things about the Model 3 a lot of people think of it as the $35,000 Tesla and someday conceivably it will be but as it exists right now in the early days of the Model 3 shipping you could only get it optioned up with bigger battery and a ton of interior options that we'll talk about so the lowest price you can get a Model 3 4 is $48,000 it doesn't have things like autopilot built in the one we have behind us has every option box checked and comes in at fifty eight thousand dollars so as you evaluate the model three you can look at it from the lower end at thirty five to the high end at 58 it's gonna go even higher when the dual motor version hits sometime in the next few months so a huge spread on the model three it definitely changes a value proposition of the car so let's start with how you get in to the cars Tesla's always done door handles differently with the Model S they popped out you kind of did a handshake with it and you opened it it's different here to model three these are kind of Lamborghini Huracan esque type doors you push in and then you pull out it's a cool novel way to open the door without having any extra wind resistance with handles that actually protrude out but no one to get into the car that's where things kind of get interesting Tesla is totally done with is the traditional key that they have with the Model S and even with the Model X instead you're gonna use your phone it's gonna create the Bluetooth could it's gonna sort of handshake off to let it know that this is indeed you it'll open the car when you walk away and that connection gets broken it's going to lock the car your phone essentially becomes the key if you don't have your phone with you and you want to give your car to valet you've got a card and it looks and feels exactly like a credit card it's really thin that is your key and you come up to the car and you tap it on the pillar and the car unlocks and you sort of place it gently behind the cupholders and that lets the car know that you are indeed authorized to drive it and off you go it's been weird having that so the car we have is not ours actually the folks at Errol and I stuff to let us borrow the model three for a few days so you couldn't pair it to a phone so I've been using that key card it's weird and it doesn't work through a wallet presumably though you don't have to worry about that have to use your phone the card is neat and if you lose it it's gonna be way less expensive to replace than getting a new key but that's not the only place that the doors here are different instead of normal handles you push a button that electronically opens the door of course there's another spot underneath there's a real handle in case power is dead in your car but it's weird ways to get in and out of this car so the biggest fear a lot of people have with V's range anxiety like running out of juice both these cars have 75 kilowatt hour battery pack so of course the model 3 weighs way less you're gonna get more range Tesla advertised 310 miles of range versus about 259 on the Model S but that's assuming a hundred percent charge which really shouldn't do with electric cars and Tesla really doesn't want you to do that every day so when I took the model 3 and fed it to about the 80 85 % they recommend I had a real-world range of 275 miles which is pretty impressive it definitely gets you anywhere you want to go and of course you could always plug it in at night it'll charge it about 20 to 25 miles per hour on a regular 240 outlet and you can charge it a supercharger but with the model 3 you're gonna have to pay for it but you can charge up to 200 miles per hour almost so at about 30 to 40 minutes you can have your car pretty much filled up depending on how open this tells our next few super charging is free with the Model S if you've never driven an electric vehicle the torque on these things is crazy I always get the analogy think of it like an electric drill as soon as you pull that trigger that bit is spinning at max same thing is true with the tires here so 2 0 30 and 0 to 60 sprint feels crazy fast the model throughs didn't get to 60 and a little bit over 5 seconds and then the model asked despite being a bigger a heavier car it's gonna do it about a second even better at a little over 4 seconds so incredibly fast and a zero to 30 it could pretty much beat almost anything in either of these cars this is really was impressed with the model 3 I drove a Model S for three years I know how fast a car can feel I also know how big the car can feel this felt like a small sports car behind the wheel of the model 3 I loved the performance even though it's technically slower on paper it felt faster for making the drivers eat any Model S you can configure right now in the beginning of 2018 it's gonna have the air suspension that's gonna mean you could set the car to raise and lower but you're gonna make getting in and out pretty easy to do the model 3 doesn't have air suspension it's a coil suspension and the car is really low to the ground and then the seats are low inside of the car making the ingress/egress which I guess is fancy for in and out kinda hard to do I'm not I'm not super old but it was hard to get in and out of the car but I will say once you're in the model 3 the seats are crazy comfortable the Model S seats I never thought were the best this is entirely new redesigned seat and it feels really good to sit in the driver seat and the passenger seat and speaking of seats there's still plenty of room in the back in my normal seating position and I'm like five nine ish there was plenty of room in the back for passengers to sit and I have two kids so my concern was well then I like to put car seats in the back you can definitely fit two car seats on either side in a booster seat in the middle but it is definitely going to be tight our model 3 is an earlier bill that's been like 1,100 sarn't that many on the road in fact you may never see a model 3 to even know how big the car is so to give you some sort of comparison it's about a hundred and eighty five inches and just so you know the 3-series that you can see pretty much everywhere is 182 inches so it's just slightly bigger than a BMW 3-series whereas a Model S is pretty decently larger 12 inches at 196 inches and where you're going to feel that difference in size first of all comes from storage the Model S is a hatchback and the model three has a trunk the mile s has double storage space it's 15 cubic feet versus 30 cubic feet and that is a huge difference I wish to model three had the hatchback I loved it when I had a Model S but the opening for the trunk is pretty big and the trunk is still pretty big as well the front though is is super small it's like barely four like an attache case or like a laptop back in it so don't plan on putting much in the trunk up front the standard wheels on the Model S are 19 inches so not the biggest tires it's a much smoother ride on the 18 inch wheels on the model 3 in this case we have the arrow ribs that improve aerodynamics it is a much harsher ride when it harken back to 3-series analogy it feels like a BMW suspension your feeling every bump in the road it's not bad it's more of a sporty feel if you want kind of the luxury feel then the S is gonna be a better option if you want that sporty or sort of bumpy or type feel on the road mouth food's gonna be pretty solid choice so I think everybody who's seen a Model 3 in person or seen pictures or watched videos had the exact same thought when you see that 15 inch touchscreen that protrudes out from the middle that looks damn distracting and I was actually pretty impressed at how not distracting it was or at least less distracting than I thought when you're just driving normal looking straight ahead it doesn't really bother you it's definitely in your periphery but it's not like you're looking and averting your eyes that much often times not looking at my speedometer but any information you want is gonna be on that 15 inch screen and it can be distracting in certain situations for example auto pilot the only way to control your speed or car length is to use that touchscreen so you guys take your eyes off the road and beyond the distraction just of averting your eyes there's a big reflection issue too and I was kind of going into sunlight there was light reflecting off the screen into my eyes it's also a fingerprint magnet as well and this happened to two different people outside a passenger seat as they got out of their car both of their knees bumped that 15 inch screen it's mounted really securely there's no give as you touch it but the more people that hit it I mean perhaps it could come loose and also a difference between the two cars we talk about those in - screens so the main one in the Model S is 17 inches it has of course the normal - you get in most cars but the one on the model 3 is incredibly more responsive than what you have in the Model S and also in the Model X it's just quicker it's smoother I would even bet it's even higher res but I can't quantify that it just works better the UI though and learning how to do everything on the Model 3 has a big learning curve that's coming from somebody who drove an S and now drive an X I know Tesla's UI and I took me a while to figure out how to do certain things so be prepared for a pretty big learning curve when it comes to the Model 3 also super cool that I wish the S had the air vents if you look at the car it's got one continuous vents going all the way across and even control that vent of course for that 15 inch touchscreen we can also split the air and have it go anywhere you want that's awesome that's cool new technology that I wish the Model S would have an example of how I think the ass is kind of starting to feel outdated I sometimes sort of the really intuitive and cool design that have gone into the model 3 autopilot on most cars is pretty much identical experience a few exceptions how you turn it on and I don't know why Tesla did this on the Model S and acts as a separate stock on the left that you just press down twice it engages auto pilot on the model 3 you got to use the same gear shifter that used to go into drive and neutral and reverse you press it down twice and that's going to engage autopilot once you're in the experience is the same it is not self-driving though don't think any Tesla's self driver gets off in an accident well the Mallis first came out it was the most futuristic looking car I had ever seen when I got mine and I sat in it I looked at that 17 inch touchscreen I felt like I was driving the future and since that first Model S came out doing design change that we've seen exterior wise is the nosecone is gone and you've got sort of a more integrated sleeker looking front rather than that the car is pretty much the same it seems got a way to say it but compared to the model 3 the S is starting to look a little bit dated obviously that's totally subjective but looking at the price point of the Model S you don't want a car that's gonna look dated in fact it kind of being out done and tech areas by its little brother that's that's a way less expensive Tesla's known for a few things I think push the envelope on technology and also build quality issues on their earlier cars that they ship the S had issues been a first ship the ex had a tiny issues when it first ship and the model three is no exception again our thing here is like eleven hundred there on about two thousand now but there are some fit and finish issues that you don't expect from a car at least ones options up to be almost sixty thousand dollars there are some door panels that are misaligned there's some chrome it's not aligned properly there are some pieces by the speaker that I don't know why they're there the speaker grille themselves look like it's 3d printed there's some really cheap plastics all around the issues that a plague test with early builds are definitely here with the model three but is not impacting the drive and it's not impacting the performance but when you are driving a big gap between the two is road noise since it's an electric car you there's no engine you hear a little electric whir but there's way better noise dampening in the S than there is in the three you hear a lot of wind as you go whooshing the 60 in in the model three some other cool interior stuff that the model three has that the S doesn't it's got a really easy dock up front to put your iPhone or a USBC phone so the big question though is which one is better it's obviously gonna come down to your use for me I've got two kids maybe the idea of a third one somewhere down the road I don't think I could live with the model three I Drive my kids to school I could put car seats in the back but it felt too small for me to drive that's like coming from a larger SUV if you don't have kids and you want a small fast car save your money you're not getting that much difference with the Model S if you want to spend that starting price about seventy six thousand dollars for and evey you might want to consider waiting for an update to the Model S coming at some point the my life still is a real soft spot in my heart but Tesla definitely cannibalizing themselves by how awesome the model 3 is so what'd you guys think if you've got the money to spend which car are you going for and why even the comments down below and again a big special thank you to tarou for helping us get the model 3 if you my rents any car you want including a model three fully to them down below let us know what you guys think if you like these car versa give the video a thumbs up it helps us of course hit the subscribe button that little bell next to its get notified when new car videos are coming your way till next time John Ranger TechnoBuffalo