2024 Tesla Model 3 Early Review | Consumer Reports

Lower the headlights brightness it's blinding can't see where I'm driving after the Tesla drives past me makes me angry and disorientated

I don’t hate this review as much as a lot of other commenters - except I really rolled my eyes when he said he wouldn’t use the screen in the back. DUH it’s not for the driver, it’s for the people sitting in back!!!

Yall are paying for the beta self driving. While Musk is living and owner, he’ll surely make it standard eventually

I test drove this car, he is just really negative about this car for his personal use .

They need to work on quality control why is the panel coming off straight from factory 🤔

Expensive

KILL THE CRAPPY MUSIC.

Mine has a vibrating steering wheel on highways

Did they allow you to get rid of the side mirror to reduce drag?

I want to lease one so bad in the next month!

His comments about the rear screen are hilarious. Too small and far away, I would just use my phone. Kinda hard to do while driving. No mention of the ability of passengers to move the front seat forward, use Bluetooth for headphones, control climate, play games, watch movies etc while front seat passengers listen to something else. At this starting price point, $39K. Really bad, ignorant review.

$60K model3 🤣

When you brought up the gear selector for forward and reverse you failed to mention that the majority of the time the car automatically knows which direction to go so why didn't you mention that?

Long term build quality hold up is already suspect.

WHY they would agree to put the gear switch on the screen in beyond me. I can't imagine being in thick traffic, having to make a u-turn or something, and being flustered to say the least in all that traffic and chaos. This automatically takes this vehicle out of any consideration for me to even want to drive.

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Sounds like you already hate it, and telling us FSD is “controversial” is BS

I have the 2018 Model 3 LR. Like it, don't love it. My main complaint is the lack of tactile controls – and the 2018 is FAR superior to the 2024 in that regard. I'm older, with an essential tremor, which makes navigating the screen tricky, even when stopped. While I like a lot of what the screen offers, including teh owner's manual, the requirement for finer motor control would make the 2024 a no-starter for me. Plus the fact that the car's panels and floor mats are so badly designed. They need to hire someone from Switzerland for the design department.

Heres a $60k car with panels falling off 😂

I guess 7 years and a refresh still isn't enough for Tesla to iron out QC bugs in manufacturing?

60k for a model 3 is crazy!

Why no mention of the fact that certain Teslas can receive the tax credit? This car could have received it if you didn't buy the FSD outright.

screen in the back seat could have been replaced with a screen in front of the wheel...

How did you get full self driving? I only see full self driving supervised advertised?

lol yes so difficult to swipe your finger for drive or reverse 😂

Complains that sliding the screen to shift gears is hard. Proceeds to show it, looks like the easiest thing ever🤣

The background music in the video was much too low, allowing approximately 20% of the commentary to be audible. 

Ideally, the music should have drowned out the commentary entirely, because the review itself exemplifies ideological subversion, subtly manipulating public perception under the guise of objective reporting. Specifically, the inclusion of an additional $12,000 for the full self-driving option in the cost analysis of the Tesla Model 3 is a clear manipulation of facts to inflate the apparent cost of the vehicle. This not only distorts the consumer's understanding but also unfairly biases the audience against the product by exaggerating its expense.

Why would you guys buy the FSD. What a dumb decision.

No advertising revenue to CR-equals negativity. Same old CR.

(CR)- hung weights from the steering wheel of a Tesla you don’t think they would YANK OFF a piece of trim? Of course they would.

Guy said “of course we bought FSD” as if it isn’t idiotic.

When in your life have you opened the driver side door with your right hand? 🐒

Long time CR member. Great video! Thanks!!!

Haha love how your overall tone is very negative throughout the whole video for me so I don’t have to think!

Another suspiciously anti Tesla video..

Best BEV for the money.

It’s tricky to swipe on a tablet? Children do that daily

I am not a Tesla fan boy. This product has changed the game in the car biz.
Been hearing about the build quality not so good.

Its there for whom ever wants one

I bought a ‘23 Model Y, but it that didn’t have any stalks last year, that probably would’ve been a deal breaker. …just saying

I have a '22 M3P and will admit up front that I'm 100% a Tesla fanboy. But I had to chime in about the turn signal buttons that everyone seems to be griping about. I had my car in at the dealer a few weeks ago for a rear seat rattle and while I was there I decided to take a '24 Model S on a drive. I had 30 min to get used to the turn signals (same as in the new 3) and I felt comfortable with them after about 5 min. The raised bar between the buttons makes it so you can pretty easily find the top button to signal right and the bottom one to signal left, without taking your eyes off the road. Sure it's different, but it wasn't a big deal in practice, so just wanted to add my .02. As for FSD, it's a neat trick for anyone not accustomed to letting the car take full control of driving, but I would not pay for it at this stage. Autopilot works well enough for my needs.

And it gets worse. He complains about the door handles - that are not new. They were on the 2018 Model 3 and the Model Y, which is literally the largest selling car model in the world, and he acts like it is something new and he can’t figure out how to turn his hand over - OMG!

FSD is now $8000 and why would anyone pay for it upfront when it's $99/month?

He literally said “we think has a misleading name” when the name is now Supervised Full Self Driving. Does he not know that?

Then he says “you can basically drive hands free in a wide variety of situations“?!&@

NO YOU CANNOT. That’s the whole point of supervised FSD, you cannot drive hands free, you are nagged constantly and must have your hands on the wheel. CS is really starting off bad here, mangling features and conflating the tech. Awful

And he can’t turn his hand over to open the door? Oh boy

60,000 for a Tesla? A fool and their money..... Would this be the same company that makes the Cyberjunk? Same company owned by a hypocrite evil, delusional billionaire? Expensive trash.

This takes me back to your review of the BMW 2002. You cemented your reputation then. I canceled my subscription. You are really Pontiac guys.

FSD is NOT hands free. It’s even called Full Self Driving (Supervised) now. It requires a hand on the steering wheel and an attentive driver.

FSD literally just got cut from 12k to 8k today lol. But never buy it, it's literally $99 a month. Way better value lol

the FSD software now costs $8000 😆