2022 Tesla Model S Plaid: Regular Car Reviews
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2022
- In this episode of Regular Car Reviews, we drive the 2022 Tesla Model S Plaid. It's the
latest versions of one of the most influential car models ever built. We'll talk about how the public
perception of the Tesla and electric vehicles has changed over time, show you the features this car
offers you, and take you along for a test drive as Mr. Regular goes into all the details on what makes
the Tesla Model S Plaid different from what came before. Watch our 2022 Tesla Model S Plaid review, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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There were always those old guys tinkering with their perfectly restored 57 Chevys, completely unbothered by the fact that it doesn't handle, and doesn't make any power. The old guys had to come to terms with the fact that their 7 liter old American iron was going to get spanked by a turbo 4 cylinder economy car years ago. They learned to live with their cars and enjoy them for what they were. The Plaid feels like it lifts a weight off of the collective shoulders of the entire car community, we'll never be fast again, none of us. Might as well just enjoy tinkering with our funny old machines for the inherent pleasure of it from this point onward.
I've driven my fair share of fast cars, an LS powered Ultima being a highlight but tbh I'm honestly glad I've never really cared about power. Like my current car has around 300hp and it's just not really possible to use it all on the road without acting like a dickhead.
I'm sure in 20 years time I'll just be driving and messing around with a slow ancient GT86 while everybody blasts past me with 1000hp electric whatevers. Or I'll just give up driving completely anyway which luckily I can without having any major impact on my life.
I wanna see someone take the Plaid on a road course.
The car is gunna die at this rate
Ironically, by the time this Plaid becomes a funny old machine, NONE of these will be on the road.
The difference here is that cars have been too fast for public roads for a while.
A Miata isn't fast but you'll get tons more smiles out of going "fast" with it in the bends than a Plaid pulling that stoplight trick.
The Plaid launch I'm sure gets boring like any other party trick. Having a genuinely fun car is something else. And the engine note is part of it: I own a cheap 300cc motorcycle, it's a single cylinder engine so it's easy to make it go "pop" on downshifts - it's not getting old. I'm not going fast, but the sensation and the sound just make me smile. (And it's not obnoxious like the fart machines some modern sportscars have)
This is so weird. Tomorrow won't feel like a Monday now. I've been using these videos to start my work week for years now.
Ditto
Watch it tomorrow
@@derreckmoore2175 lol FR
@@derreckmoore2175 no
@@derreckmoore2175 Right? People are silly with their habits/routines and rituals...
I have thousands of videos saved to several playlists cuz there isn't enough time to watch all this content.
So I ain't waiting on RCR to post (even tho here I am) as If it's going to save my life like some of these Foeks, like they're some K-Pop music artist Stans
( which I love this channel by the way)
I think when acceleration is so violent that it hurts, it's time to accept that we've maxed out that stat and look for something else to improve. Luxury, cornering Gs, top speed, HiFi sound, towing capacity, something. Even drag coefficients are getting about as good as we can get the with side by side seating.
No. I want my face torn off.
Agree
Fit and finish on vehicle
@@jamesday7344 hey, that's a good one! I'd love to see the biggest companies duking it out on who can make their panel gaps the most consistent, who's doors close more smoothly etc
Tesla are constantly improving. Except the yoke. That's just a slap in the face, really. Function over form.
“Lose your right to vote at Kunkelman Chevrolet!” is the most I’ve laughed all week
WOAH. Never thought of model plaid as a muscle car, but it totally makes sense.
-big torque
-high weight
-can’t corner
-light to light racing
-Will tell everyone you know you own it
-Spend 2 marriages and 3 child support payments "restoring" it when it breaks down
@@oo8643oo The muscle car era really is back:p
-shoddily made
I own one and other ICE cars but can't handle is far from the truth. 1.08g skid pad it can corner. It just can't brake consistently without a brake upgrade.
@@oo8643oo electric cars don't get restored, they get replaced. just like a smartphone.
Being a Mopar guy, I feel like your “Mopar Think-tank” session is 1) Hilarious and 2) Probably spot on! Gotta respect these Teslas when they went from light speed to “Holy shit…they went to Plaid!”
i hope Mopar comes out with something sweet and just smashes Tesla's smug face.
@@12gauge_shawtyy It's not gonna be easy. Tesla and Lucid have the best electric motor engineers in the industry. Also once you start getting to these crazy power levels you're much more limited by the discharge capacity of the battery than the motors themselves.
Space balls
@@12gauge_shawtyy there’s nothing wrong with Tesla, their cars are nice except for those built in Fremont in a tent… anyway, Tesla fanboys and Musk himself are just stupid, they make the company look bad
@@12gauge_shawtyy Not a Tesla Fanboy, but... Probably not. Every announced EV or new EV development has been partnering with SK or BYD for their batteries. The discharge capacity of the batteries is the limiter to performance right now. No one else is interested in building halo level, ultra high eprformance battery packs. They just want to get their EV lines off the ground and selling volume. Tesla custom builds EVERYTHING, to the point where of the top 5 most american made content cars, 3 of them are Tesla's line. It's probably keeping their costs higher, but they are less beholden to suppliers i suppose... And it lets them tune and build their pack specifically to their vehilcle and goals only, without answering to a supplier or trying to shift warranty, liability, etc.
Story: I wanted my dream car for years while in the Air Force. I got out, got an OK job and got it. Exactly how I wanted it, down to the options. I loved it. It was maybe a little more than I should have been spending but it was mine! Then 4 years later of daily driving back and forth to work... making those payments and insurance payments.. It wore off.. Ya I'd still get a little tingle in my pants when I'd roll on it a little at a stop light.. but I'd only ever feel like doing that once a week now.. It really ruined me. I'm now 45 and drive a Ford Focus I got "new" from the dealer. It was a 1 year old dealer loaner or something. I got it for a DEEEEEAL right before the price of cars went nuts. It's the last year US Focus, mostly base model.. It's silver... It's fine. It drives nice, the interior is nice, it's quiet, it's cheep.. I just don't care.. It's fine. When I think what I paid for it it's actually quite impressive how nice it is. You kids don't understand the level of quality a new base model car is! Any way.. it's a don't meet your hero story I guess. Maybe it's because I should have gotten a used one at the time and saved like half the price.. maybe it's because it was a little more than I should have been paying... Maybe it's because I sold it for a deal because you couldn't fit a baby seat in the back or front seat.. Maybe it's because I'm just older.. I don't know. I still like to look at cars and think I'd like that.. I just can't see myself paying for them, maybe it's because I know that in 2-3 years that same car will excite me about as much as my Ford Focus. I have no idea where I"m going with this or why I wrote it. Thank you for reading, if you did.
I did, you're welcome :P
what car was it?
Bart. I feel this. Thanks
With the F1 cars argument the steering ratio is completely different lock to lock takes way less turns than the Tesla. The Tesla has a normal steering ratio making the yoke kinda useless and more cumbersome.
I just realized: isn't it also more dangerous straightening out of a sharp turn because you have to let go of the yoke half the time it's turning? I remember being taught to only loosen up my grip on the wheel a wee bit when coming out of a turn and to not let go, but this thing here apparently encourages taking your hands off the yoke. Or am I missing something?
Also, F1 cars have wider turning circles to begin with, making them terrible to drive in parking lots anyway.
the steering ratio is actually not much different, but formula cars can’t turn a lot the wheels anyway
@@Sean-Ax TH-cam channel Speed Academy crashed their Plaid on track twice because the ABS system freaked out and if you watch it, the driver tris to grab the steering wheel and there's nothing there (video is called We CRASHED the Tesla Model S PLAID...TWICE (SCARY!))
@@seljd Oh cool, good to know! (not actually cool; rather unfortunate, but good info)
The worst part about getting passed by a Tesla that's absolutely hauling, is that it's damn near silent lol
It makes it so fun to drive though. You can drive like a complete shithead and no one bats an eye because you aren't being loud.
Silent but deadly
@@CockatooDude the number one reason I love my Plaid!
@@CockatooDude Yes we all love people who drive like shitheads.. quietly. I like being passed by a brick going 120mph so long as I don't have to hear exhaust noises.
You ever see the video of the Rivian absolutely killing it silently at the truck pulls?
I valet parked a Plaid and “Looking like a dingus” is exactly what I would describe using the yoke felt like. It was so awkward to over-hand turn to park.
Best mod I've seen for this car is a Model 3 steering wheel.
Personally, I am tired of all of the yoke “grab a wheel that’s not there” / awkward comments. I’m not saying the thing is perfect, but you cannot expect to be fluid with it in like an hour of casual driving. Same with the complaints with the turn signal buttons….like, yes, they’re in an “abnormal” spot, but it’s not like they’re objectively poorly placed…it just takes a little bit of time to reprogram yourself.
And yes I own a Tesla that has a yoke, yes I was awkward with it for about a week, but after that it’s become second nature, even in parking lots. Surprise - you get better at something when you use it more. What’s the point in complaining about things changing slightly?
Meanwhile subjectively the thing looks really cool IMO, and it does provide awesome visibility of both the road and the front cluster with that top chunk missing.
@@bass-tones Here's the thing: it's different from literally every other car. Every car standardized on a complete round-ish wheel for steering. Everyone learned to drive with a wheel. You can get in any car and know how to steer it. It's a safety hazard to have to relearn how to steer a car.
@@bwofficial1776 Yes it’s different but it’s not _so_ different that you’re going to risk causing an accident. It just looks, and feels, as so many reviewers have pointed out ad-nauseam, clumsy turning the car 90 degrees+. So, situations where you’re almost always traveling at very low speed anyway.
If someone wants to get used to it immediately, literally all they need to do is take the car to an empty parking lot and practice smooth turns for a few minutes like a new driver would have to do. I’m not saying that’s _necessary_, but it’s an option, and something these reviewers understandably can’t and won’t spend the time doing in their limited time with the car.
Like yes, in mine several times I reached for the top of the wheel and missed it and had to try again. But this was never a “dangerous” thing, I just looked like an idiot, for a week. It mostly happened in drive thrus where my mind shifted to autopilot trying to drive off after grabbing my drink.
I just don’t think “I can’t get used to X new feature in 15 minutes” is a valid criticism of _anything_. If there’s a real flaw with the thing that would apply at any level of familiarity with it, sure, bring that up. But “I’ve been doing things one way for my whole life and this new thing is ever so slightly different” is not a valid criticism.
Your comment also ignores the potential positives, it’s easy speculate baselessly “it’s a safety hazard.” Meanwhile I can (also baselessly) ask how you know it hasn’t prevented more accidents than it’s caused due to its increased visibility over a conventional wheel?
yeah i'm not into it. these things look fun in a straight line but i'd never buy one.
I would like Tesla's a lot more if they were anywhere near obtainable to me. The high entry price combined with the sketchy "right to repair" issues means I can't afford a new one, and won't be buying one used if I'm not "allowed" to fix it myself.
By the time they depreciate out down to "cash price" they will need a battery pack or cells replaced that will make it cost prohibitive for folks like you and me who play in that 10-15 year old car world.
Hopefully this changes soon...
Would like one for the same reasons too
@@thejunkman On the contrary, they will tank the value and make them approachable to anyone willing to do some involved work.
At the end of the day, it’s all about making more money for Tesla when they don’t allow their customers to repair their cars themselves…
@@joshbacon8241 This is the main reason I stay away from any brand of any product that actively thwarts owner repair.
“When there’s no electricity, where are you going to go in your Tesla?” It’s insane how often this question comes up. So every time I see it, I have to chime in with my Snowmageddon 2021 experience. Remember when Texas was without power for days? Our Tesla was plugged in and fully charged when that happened. People with ICE vehicles were driving all over, running out of gas looking for gas. The thing is, even if the refineries were open, and truckers were supplying, no electricity means no point of sales system, no pump activation. As soon as we got electricity, the car immediately could start recharging again if needed, while gas stations had little to no supply. The last time I got gas for my mustang this happened. First station I went to, couldn’t get gas because they had a power outage. Just them apparently.
That only worked out for you because everyone else is still reliant on gas. You're going to start seeing even more outages due to overworking the grid if the grid doesn't update quickly. We're already seeing it from people using more A/C, imagine if just 10% more cars were EVs overnight.. Once the grid can support it it sure will be nice.
@@Wpjgdmtu that’s why it’s important to tackle the grid issues now. Not only will more and more people be using EVs, but more and more people are still moving here for some strange reason. That alone will increase demand even without EVs. We need to invest in our infrastructure now before later. We personally have solar panels to compensate for our extra grid usage. In a way, you could consider our cars “solar powered.” More EV owners need to do the same, especially since we clearly can’t trust the government or ERCOT to take care of us.
Anyway, this is no different when a town has more gas vehicles than gas stations. There was once a time when only one town had a single station, or you had to drive several towns over for gas (which I honestly already have to do if I want ethanol free). There weren’t fuel shortages because supply met with demand. So as long as demand doesn’t significantly increase before supply can catch up, we should be fine. Texas already received a lot of grants due to VWs dieselgate, but has yet to build the promised infrastructure with it.
There are entire portions of the country where driving a Tesla is a legitimate risk. Don't think I've been across highway 50 without seeing a handful of Tesla abandoned on the side of a desert road.
@@domenik8339 I drove cross country in the desert once and saw many abandoned ICE vehicles. I honestly had a fear that I might be one of them, so I always made sure to fill up when 1/4 empty, vs 1/8, because I did not know where the nearest gas station was and they were so few and far apart that you needed to be absolutely sure you don’t need a fill up before passing one. I had actual range anxiety in an ICE vehicle. The people who use dead battery EVs as an example seem to always forget that there are a TON of ICE owners who are left stranded because they ignored the gauge, and the light, and the audible noise. These people would be in the exact same situation regardless of vehicle, only difference is one can be rescued by a portable gas tank, and the other needs to be recharged by an actual mobile charging unit, similar to needing a tow truck.
The Tesla is actually so good that when you give it a long distance destination, it will plot out your course, and navigate to various super chargers within its network and tell you how long to charge till. For example, it may take you an hour to get full, but it decides that the best route is to stop at one for 30 minutes and another one 30. Personally, I’d charge for as long as possible out of fear that the next place may be ICEd, which is an actual thing people do. Typically large trucks will park at EV charging spots, sometimes multiple spots all at once. Karma will get them in the end though, when there is only one gas pump in town and some EV parked in it.
Other EV models may not have this charging network navigation service, but there are apps like PlugShare that will help plot your road trip course for you, so you know where to stop, even if your car does not. Anyone stranded along the road, may it be dead battery or empty tank did not plan. Always have a plan. …and a backup plan.
@@domenik8339 Funny I drove through Death Valley NV and Needles CA when it was 121 degrees in my Model 3. Didn't have a problem.
So glad to see Kunkleman Chevrolet return. I've been missing that bit.
lmao, i've not seen it before. Good as : )
"WHY GET?"
"CUZ GO FAST!"
Funniest line of this entire video.
The best analogy I've yet thought of with EVs versus ICE vehicles is watches. When quartz and digital watches came out as cheap, reliable, and accurate timepieces, most people switched over to them. Those people then stopped buying watches in favour of using their phones, and then maybe got a smartwatch. Those all have great technological advantages and are better than mechanical watches in pretty much every practical sense. However, Rolex figured out that a high-end mechanical watch could be a luxury item, and that watch enthusiasts didn't care about the easy solution to accuracy (digital), but cared about how accurate a mechanical device could be made.
No ICE enthusiast wants to race a Tesla because it's pointless. Racing combustion engine against combustion engine is a direct and engaging comparison. Racing an EV against a combustion engine is like saying you can draft a document faster on a computer than on a typewriter - of course you can, and no one cares. To bring it back to the watch analogy - a phone or smartwatch is a better time-measuring device than an Omega Speedmaster, and it can do more, but an Omega Speedmaster is what a watch enthusiast would buy.
More like Tesla is the Apple Watch....they could buy Rolex 100x....this is a dumb comparison. Tesla will put most auto makers on notice.
@@MusclesAVS the analogy has obviously gone over your head...
@@leonardr6704 yeah. It didn’t make sense nor was it a good analogy. Teslas cost more than their ICE counterparts. If a smart watch were 10k+ maybe. Luxury watches are only cool to people over 65.
@@MusclesAVS I'm 38 and love luxury watches.
@@MusclesAVS I could explain to you how you're missing the bigger picture here but I honestly can't be bothered
I don't know if Dodge has the mindset you talked about, but I'd be super excited if it turns out they do that kind of electrical monster!
Mopar lives a quarter mile at a time. They were also early with an electric sports car concept, but then 2008 happened.
I feel like the plaid represents a lot of what I don't like about most modern cars. Big, heavy, damped to a point of numbness, focuses more on 0-60 and straight line performance than any other metric of performance or trying to be enjoyable for anything that isn't a surge of getting pushed into your seat for little to no actual effort which feels more and more like cheap thrills until it stops being novel and feeling fast or interesting and then instead everything else just feels slow instead but it didn't bring anything of substance really. Behold the automotive equivalent of the guy who learned how to play Wonderwall except everyone is applauding him for it.
Tell me you never drove a Plaid without telling me you never drove a Plaid! :)
Well that's modern cars in a nutshell they're becoming more and more of an appliance if you want more of that "soul ful" feel you have to at the very least go 20 years back the closest thing you can get to it in a modern car is maybe an 86
@@TwoDollarGararge I literally opened by saying it's basically the epitome of modern cars
Big heavy and numb?
50s and 60s are calling.
@@baronvonjo1929 what? You know there's a period of time between right now and then right? Like 70 years of time and the model S is enormous even by the standards of the 50s and 60s. The model s is longer(by 6"), wider (by 8")and heavier(by over 700lb) than a 1950 Bentley model VI. Compare it to a car from the 90s and it's not even close
The Mopar bit is a great point, I am so incredibly excited to see Stellantis figure out how to make a faster dodge demon. They have to, their market demands fast and annoying. Their concept already shows off it’s going to make fake noises loud as all hell.
I’m certain there will be some Dodge Dart ev, some luxury Chrysler 300 EV or something, but you know damn well they’re gonna slam obscenely powerful DC motors into the challenger chassis just to flex on everyone.
Now... I can't actually say anything for a number of reasons, including the fact that I just don't know a lot.
But I can say I have heard from down the corporate pipeline some companies may be getting all electric hellcats soon for road testing. And the company I work for might be one of them.
@@TheCptnOfFail DUDE, please keep us updated if it's true! 🙏
@@marcos45923 If anything happens I really will not be able to say much. But I will try and see what I can get away with that won't get anyone in trouble.
Pretty much all we have currently is software issues on current cars. and one currently not yet out, but fully announced vehicle known for being all terrain but will never see more than a mildly perturbed dirt road. Everything you can read online about it appears accurate.
I really don't like it. But that's probably because they did a few things in... unique ways and its major feature is unimpressive when compared to the very slightly worse milage I can get out of a bigger, heavier, vehicle from the same brand with a bigger engine that makes more power. In a form that makes zero sense for the brand, but it's already released so not much to be done.
Interestingly google reports a different MPG on the bigger vehicle. it says 13-18 but I can get it up to a consistent 20-25. While the new one is exactly what I am seeing.
Stellantis is where ICE car companies go to die. They keep buying them up. Think Honda will be next to join them.
I know you are probably right, but I can hardly think of anything more stupid than intentionally loud, exterior, fake exhaust sounds. It's like if you were the first person in your town to ever own a car, but you had it dump manure out the back like a horse. And in fact slightly more manure than a real horse, to prove your car is also more horse than their horse. Our species is just insufferable.
Good on you for testing the acceleration in Mexico on a closed road. Their road laws are completely different so you really didn't need to censor the cluster but better safe than sorry.
do not attempt done by professionals on a closed course in Mexico in minecraft
I see Matt Farah and 1320 in Tex ... Tijuana! ... has taught you well ;)
That launch is like something out of science fiction lol! Freakin insane!
I've been living in Silicon Valley, California since way before the Tesla became a reality. It is honestly kind of hard to believe that the Tesla is still unknown in most parts of America, let alone the world. Frankly, I was more interested when I saw my first Polestar a few weeks ago, as that means there is finally going to be competition that can bring the Tesla's price down to something I can afford.
Also I like how you're making Mopar exec to sound like Kel-Tec exec when they came up with the idea of 50 round handgun
I'm still convinced that the Kel-Tec board of engineering has a dedicated button to summon toy trains full of cocaine.
Kel-Tec: Interesting ideas, poorly executed...sniff, sniff
Love Kel-Tec, KSG 12 was the first gun i bought and i love it even though its hateful and kicks like a mule🤣, added a SU16E to the stabel and its pure ignorant fun to shoot, like a paintball gun loaded with marbles.
@@sunshineruffio8071 some folks just like to be punished...
@@wtsane5449 it's definitely a on occasion gun or if I got to a skeet shooting fundraiser 🤣🤣 I just nabbed a Black Aces PRO-M for 215$ shipped and it's now the stupid ignorant fun gun with a few 13 round mags to dump cheap birdshot with.
I worked for Electrified Garage for a short time and I had the pleasure of fitting a Model S with a toe hitch. The kid who owned said car was driving on slicks. The kid let his tires get so bald they were slicks, the cordes were showing and the camber was causing the inside edge to wear SIGNIFICANTLY faster then the outside edge.
The new one in FL or the original EG?
He must have owned a Challenger before it.
How was it working for Rich?
@@Melanie16040 The one in New Hampshire.
@@overlyattachedbean1050 Rich barely was around the shop. I only saw him like 3 times.
Roman absolutely knocked the Kunkleman bit out of the park, haven't laughed that hard in ages!
If you can separate the car from the company, Tesla’s are ok. But the fact of the matter is, the customer support, which you are FORCED to rely on when you drive a (brutally fast) computer, is militantly terrible. When the time comes that you can service your own Plaid and download the software to facilitate that, it’ll be worth the money. Until then, no matter how much money you let Tesla suckle from you, it’s just not your car, plain and simple.
I guess the thing is, there is no servicing it unless something goes wrong, which is significantly less of a possibility due to less moving parts. I’ve known multiple people now who have Model S’s and Model Y’s who have never had a single issue. I think the internet going crazy when an outlier Model S has a big problem and tesla doesn’t allow customers to handle massive batteries skews the public’s view. From what I’ve seen in real life, these things are wildly reliable and don’t have any parts that actually need maintenance. Hell, even brakes have a vastly extended life due to regen.
I would have so much less of a problem with teslas if they weren’t so reliant on that damn screen
I mean, most people don't own their cars in all reality... The bank owns the vehicle and thanks to the warranty all the work has to be done at the dealership... You sound like somebody who's never purchased a new vehicle before.
The best electric car to drive, when its someone else's. 👍
You can get the Toolbox, have been able to for years. Parts sales, wide open if you own the car or are a shop, complete unadulterated service manual is online for a few years now, for all models.
Naming their performance model after a Spaceballs reference is apt for Tesla, if only because the other one that quickly comes to mind with their cars is "Fuck, even in the future nothing works!"
Hahaha
Wow I can’t believe I just realized this lmao. We’ve gone to plaid
Their second fastest models goes to "Ludicrous Speed" and that's where I realized Tesla has Spaceballs fans in their ranks.
Still, it bugs me they didn't use plaid seat fabric in the Plaid.
@@nlpnt Right, even the GTi can do that for $30k.
I laughed too hard at the description of mopar execs doing line while trying to figure out how they are gonna beat tesla, knowing damn well they will succeed.
"Make 'em sign a death waiver."
I can't imagine how else they dreamt up the hellcat and demon.
If they could make the Hellephant engine comply with EPA standards they'd put it on a Charger and call it the last hurrah of internal combustion before they launch an equally bonkers electric car.
If they don't go overboard with the skeumorphism (by all means pipe in fake engine sounds, maybe even a lumpy cam or crackle tune, but for the love of God WITH AN EASY WAY TO TURN THEM OFF) there's gotta be a market for a fast, cool EV that isn't trying as damn hard as a Tesla to *not be a car*.
@@LouisSubearth I could see them saying "screw the EPA, we're going out with a bang. The Challenger has seen four Presidents and two gas crises, it deserves a proper send-off."
"It's not about how fast your car is, it's about how fun it is" - Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945.
And my god the Plaid is a fun car 😊
I just cannot describe how much I love this channel.
Anyone that has any experience with electric brushless RC cars will tell you there are not surprised by current performance electric cars.
But also are not surprised by the issues with batteries.
Hahaha
Still waiting for that first SSB EV to come out...
Tesla Model S Plaid: The official car of “if you touch me, I will sue you.”
a day later and I am still chuckling to myself about the Mopar engineer bit. I remember watching an interview with an actual Chrysler engineer sometime in the late 90s and he literally said something like "here at Chrysler our goal is to design compelling cars that are maybe just a little unhinged". He was 100% serious and I think from then on I became a Mopar guy.
The Kunkleman outro was gold. Good job Roman
And yet, it's still named after a Space Balls reference and that is the greatest thing of all
you know they did
Spaceball 1
They’ve gone to plaid
I like those wheels much better and wouldn't go larger. In fact, i'd LOVE to see more standard 15" wheels on cars and wheel wells that make 17-18" wheels great again. Too many cars with wheel wells the size of an F150 these days.
Yeah but a car like this has like 16 inch brakes, which you're going to want after you hit 100 in 5 seconds.
Huge brakes, and side impact standards, are hell on small wheel wells and low beltlines.
You get significantly better range with smaller wheels as well. Other than clearance for larger brakes, I do not understand the obsession people have with large wheels on every vehicle. They definitely have no place on Accords and Civics where the brakes have plenty of clearance with 16 inch wheels.
@@TheKiltedYaksman1 As for side impact standards this will likely change. EURO NCAP just raised side impact obstacle (and others too) and suddenly 5 star crossovers and SUVs became failing the tests. They went higher no only because of customer demand but they pushed it also because it was cheaper to pass 5 stars on NCAP test with taller car. EURO NCAP uses average height of cars on road to set height of the barriers and since so many SUVs has been sold, the averaged changed. So hopefully manufacturers will start making more lower cars again since difficulty for passing safety tests will be again similar
@@8draco8 you mean I'll be able to see out of cars again?
The poetry in this video... Damn I never seen such a review from any channel ever! Wow just wow! Subscribing! That's extremely satisfying!
Masterfully done! Excellent humorous commentary. You guys have nursing home folks falling out of their wheelchairs laughing! At themselves no less!
The plaid is the automotive equivalent of chugging a can of whipped cream
Explain
@@android175 It looks like you are really performing an impressive feat, but really it's mostly a hollow victory (like whipped cream is mostly air and cheap).
Amazing how quickly speed became less important for car enthusiast
@@stevecooper7883 I see. Thanks. I disagree with the point but thanks for answering
@@cory45x I think for most people it has always been that way. Talk to any gear head that likes to drive a stockish car over 20 years old and they'll probably first start of with "well it's not as fast as XYZ, but it's just so much fun to drive." Even the old gear heads with 60's cars, many of them couldn't keep up even with all the modern ICE improvements and people running sub 9 second builds and just say they're happy with how theirs is and the experience they get from it.
The speeds people can do now is insane, like all those insane 6 second cars, holy hell.
Somehow, this makes me want a Citroen DS even more.
Totally with you there. I drove a DS a few weeks ago. I went into it with high expectations, and it still shocked me with how brilliant it was. It's the best car I've ever driven. That suspension is still so far ahead it makes any modern car feel like a horse drawn wagon.
it was even better than I thought possible. I want one, probably more than any other car. Would love to see Mr Regular give one a go.
For some reason this was the exact video I needed today. Thank you.
Great video! I chuckled all the way through it!
I am currently in firefighter class. Literally day 1 the instructor went on a 25-minute tirade against tesla. Makes your point about them getting more common interesting since we are in rural Ohio.
Same I’ve been learning a lot about this through fire school. I used to rebuild electric car batteries for work so I knew a bit but I never realized how much water it takes to put these things out when they go up. Lots of people crash them in my town just outside of LA where we don’t have really good water supply so they built this big metal box they just drop over them and wait when they burn now.
@@SpecialAgentJamesAki Nice
The sense I get is they aren't as likely to catch fire as gasoline, but when they do there's not much anyone can do about it. Maybe they require totally different approaches, techniques to put out that haven't been discovered yet. Just another part of how the world needs to adapt to EVs.
@@SpecialAgentJamesAki Aren’t you supposed to *not* use water when putting out an electrical fire?
@@sixtakefives5325 it can be started by electricity but most of the wiring and stuff disconnects itself immediately when it shorts or the car crashes. What we are looking at with this is the lithium burning. Lithium uses oxygen as its catalyst while burning so we cut off the oxygen supply. Water works but it’s def not the best option. For a lot of places it’s the only immediate option tho.
That steering "wheel" is reminiscent of KITT's from the original Knight Rider.
Lately the extended humorous asides have been solid gold. Thank you Regular Car reviews.
No joke funniest shit ever
the MOPAR bit had my LOLing hard!!!
well done, as always!!!
That outro was such a wonderful cap to a fantastic review.
5:52 There's a certain sound your nose makes when you put a lot if drugs up it. Even years after not doing it anymore, you'll still have that sound if you inhale really hard.
Mr. Regular makes that sound quite well.
(as do I...)
Lol so relatable, good thing it’s been 4 years since I’ve done any drug
The reverse shocker is known as “the rocker”, in case anyone was wondering.
Two in the front/two in the back is “the show stopper”.
I enjoy that end bit way more than I want to admit 🤣
0:45 In fairness, the eBox was also fast. As featured on Aging Wheels.
Tesla is Apple for cars though, so folks assume they did it first because they did it with flair.
Don't forget the non standardized plug that doesn't work with anything else
@@SirLoinTheBeefy or the firmware updates that deliberately slow it down or lock out DRM.
It's what I think Steve Jobs said "no one really remembers who did it first, they remember who did it best" the word best is obviously subjective, but just like Apple did to the smart phone industry with the iPhone I think the there's credit due to Tesla for making EVs popular as something desirable not something to just consider.
@@sigmaprojects Tesla has done a decent amount to make them acceptable cars to many, no doubt.
Issue is they've slowly lost their edge (No longer the most affordable "viable" EV, not the one with the best driver assist, nor the one with the best service network, nor the one with the best charging capabilities [CCS stations are faster than Superchargers at the high end and are much more common if you're not in the Western US.])
The Plaid is absurdly fast (Having been that friend who drove a friend's) no doubt, but the awful yoke, the form over function user controls, and the generally subpar interior quality for the price makes me hesitant to recommend it. Would love to be proven wrong and see them come out with solutions to all this.
@@ulogy Plaid is a bargain for it's performance though. But I agree they've raised their prices because they can, but the market looks like it will be flooded with options over the next 10 years so I imagine prices will come down across the board. I mean before an EV hitting 300 mile range was the goal post, to match a tank of gas. Now the new goal post is trying to get EVs to 1000 mile range. Kind of nuts.
Sad that the Kunkelman family used to be one of the biggest Oldsmobile dealers in PA. Time moves on.
This is literally the only channel I keep up with consistently
I love ur Simpsons bit it was perfect 😂
Is this Matt Farah's million mile Lexus?
No this is Patrick
@@heresjohnny2172 Don’t call me Pinhead
Does anyone think a electric car can last as long as a Million Mile Lexus? Without swapping the battery
@@GalaxyStandard77 it will be lucky to make it 100,000miles without major failure. I give it a day before a minor issue pops up tho
I thought it was Tavarash’s McLaren
These things are everywhere on the west coast, I don’t even look twice anymore. I’m way more interested in that S2000 that just sped past me on the on-ramp😍
Same, it's like if you threw a rock in a random direction you're guaranteed to hit at least two Teslas.
The mopar bit was pure gold💀
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That Kunkleman Chevrolet ad at the end is my favorite thing you ever made Roman, it was perfect.
Mr. Regular, absolutely amazing episode as always, definitely a top 5 for me, especially the bit about the yoke.
I come for the car reviews, I stay for the Kunkleman Chevrolet and Rinaldi and Kline commercials!
underpopulation problem solving
LOSE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE…aaaaAAAAT KUNKLEMAN USED CARS!
@@ryano.5149 Kunkleman Chevy is counting on you to come, that’s part of solving under population.
The best way to race someone in a Tesla Plaid is to wait for a curvy stretch and THEN punch it. The same philosophy you’d apply to someone in a Demon or high horsepower truck. Good luck with those turns Hasselhoff.
Edit: don’t do that. Those things are heavy asf. A Model 3 went THRU a house down the road from me.
2nd edit: During Mr. Regular’s soliloquy on disappointment in the young, right at the sweet spot, I got an ad for Palmolive “just scrape, rinse, load!” The ad couldn’t have been timed better if it was intentional
Everyone and their mom drives all varieties of tesla where I’m at. I’ve seen quite a few lose control and crash in person. At first I was like maybe these cars do just handle like ass but then I started to think about it from a maybe the problem is between the seat and the steering wheel perspective lmao.
awd + downforce, dingus.
Model 3 - 235 front tires, 4000 lbs. The Civic Si has 235 front tires and weighs 2800 lbs. The model 3 pulls .95 on the skidpad because the skateboard platform. The whole thing is just unnatural.
@@AnonAnon-qi4ts the model 3 tends to understeer if treated not properly in a corner, because people think it is some sort of track weapon with fat anti-roll bars which it doesn’t have.
@@AnonAnon-qi4ts my car pulls 1.01 on the skidpad and has 225 front and 255 on the back, with regular everyday tires and 100% stock suspension and not with semi slick shit.
That commercial at the end was the best commentary on today's world I've heard in a while.
Roman, that Kunklemann ad was perfect
“The mind shudders at the thought of more…” my god that’s a cool line.
That ending absolutely sent me to the moon
I know you are a car channel but from a bike channel…..I love your bike references!! Thank you!!
The mopar sniff LOL It was perfect! Can't wait for that Challenger Demon X Track Only
Model Plaid. It's like CCWing a MP7 PDW when everyone else is CCWing Revolvers and 1911s.
But... but... TWO WORLD WARS! 'MHU STOPPING POWER!
I can't imagine driving an actually fast car. I drive a 2007 Grand Marquis and on the highway, going from 50mph to 85mph seems to take no time at all. Passing other cars is always quick and fun.
Uhh a Grand Marquis is a slow tank lol, reliable as hell though
@@Crypto82738 Feels fast to me. I've gotten many speeding tickets. I feel like if I had a faster car, I'd have my license taken away or be dead.
@@happilyham6769 The Panther platform is nothing to sneeze at. There's a reason the cops used the Crown Vics for so long.
@@happilyham6769 I feel the same way about street bikes, if I had one I’d be dead or in jail 😂
Same. I drive a 1.5L Fit and its always felt fast enough for city and highway driving.
i was at the local dragstrip in July and somebody brought their model Y to race. absolutely SPANKED every other car there. i think that was the first time a lot of people had seen one accelerate. the boomer/muscle car guys were aghast. game changer.
Great video and great point about these Teslas being the 2020's equivalent of American muscle cars. On a side note, given your affinity for bikes, I hope you're able to review a Zero motorcycle someday - I'd love your take on them since (at least, to someone not really in the know on bikes) the electric bike market seems to be moving at a snail's pace.
While fun to romanticize the muscle car ness of the Plaid, we can’t forget the other side of being like old muscle cars. I’ve never been in a recent vehicle that I didn’t adjust to. I had visited a vaguely linked family member with one of these, and it normally takes a little bit to get used to switching from my bike to a car, especially since most cars simply cannot be as direct as a bike. But I couldn’t adjust to the Plaid.
It wasn’t the steering yoke or lack of a turn signal stalk, I’m used to push button turn signals. But the steering and brakes just didn’t feel right and I couldn’t get used to it. They felt like my 96 GMC Sierra before I junked that thing. I stabbed the brakes getting cut off and it unsettled the car, and my girlfriends 2300lb Chevy Spark doesn’t do that. Wonky steering and brakes is not an uncommon complaint amongst reviewers either.
It’s disappointing because we know Tesla can do better, the 3 was praised for excellent braking and handling characteristics. I want to like the Plaid, but it felt rushed out and is not truly representative of what Tesla can do.
So it really hits all the muscle car points then:
- Absurdly powerful
- Disguised as a family car (and I suppose could be used as one)
- Fast in a straight line
- Lousy handling
- Everything except power is not given much effort
- Questionable build quality
- Is more for bragging rights than any actually useful reason to exist
My mom has a Tesla Model 3 and it's all the same things to a lesser extreme. Actually handles quite well and is fun to drive on twisty roads, but all the interfaces are totally non-intuitive, the physical turn signal switch doesn't work very well, have to go into menus on the touchscreen to do anything (not only annoying but dangerous), terrible visibility from the cockpit. I honestly don't like driving it at all, greatly prefer my vintage Beetle.
I adjusted from my Charger Scat Pack to my Tesla very quickly. It may not be for everyone but its different when you own it vs just cruising around.
In other words, save your money and wait for a Japanese OEM's racing division to finally build a well-handling, minimally complicated, well-built, middle-class affordable EV sports car. It will be infinitely better than Tesla's tech-bro-DRM-meets-80's-Kia-build-quality ethos.
@@Schlabbeflicker Lexus already announced it will be an EV only manufacturer. We will finally be able to purchase a reliable EV.(Hopefully... a lot of half assing going around...)
@@Schlabbeflicker DRM. That is one thing that has me fuzzy about the secondary (third) market for this and other EV's. Can there really be a secondary market for these early EV's. I and a lot of people buy cars in roughly 10-15 year increments. I just now have a car made in 2010. One thing with Tesla specifically is, will you be able to go down to Napa (insert any parts store chain) in the year 2035 and beyond and buy something to fix a 2020 Tesla.
The mopar part got me 😂
That Roman bit at the end was pure gold.
roman's kunkleman ad at the end was epic. nicely done fellas
I'm happy Teslas are as fast as they are, because now there's no point for AMG or McLaren or M Power or Lamborghini to keep trying to achieve some 2.x second 0-60 time in every car they sell. Now they can all focus on making beautiful, engaging, enjoyable gas/hybrid cars for the people who want to drive for fun and appreciate the entire experience. All the jerkoffs who were egging the industry to put launch control into their SUV can now buy a Plaid and dust whoever they feel like, while the rest of us can gleefully ignore them and get back to enjoying our hobby.
Until the government comes in and arrests you for having a spark plug. I’ll be waiting for the feds with my AR
Let’s hope that’s what happens.
Eh...there's always the Rimac Nevera. There's a video out there of one drag racing vs a Tesla Plaid and it just walks away from it - very easily. There will be others, but yeah...they're getting to be beyond ridiculous at that point.
Plaid is worth over 100k.
Actually… that’s a great take. I’ve been getting sick of the greats chasing 0-60 times and now that Tesla has spanked everyone on 0-60 times they can focus on what ACTUALLY matters, what Tesla will NEVER be good at: engaged driving
RCR went Plaid and the video came out hours early!
I think this was one of the best car reviews I've ever heard.
"Why get? Cuz go fast!" Awesome
Just spent some time in a Mazda CX30.
One, smallish screen and everything is controlled by a rotary knob and buttons.
It looks so much better than cars with giant screens.
They're going to age terribly.
I wish they can make them move-able so you can adjust the height so they're not so in your face.
But the only reason why they are getting rid of buttons is to save building costs. An LCD panel and a touchscreen is a dime a dozen and its cheaper to ask a programmer to implement a button on a screen then it is to get an engineer to outsource and test a dedicated button or knob.
@@Shorty15c4007 they'll be the automotive eqivilant to Jnko jeans in the future.
Bentley and Rolls Royce seem to understand this, as their screens hide away at the touch of a button.
I’ve had a ‘16 Mazda3 since new, and their idrive clone control is SO NICE. It is touch screen, but the touch feature turns off above 5 mph, so I think I’ve touched it 3x in 6 years. It’s all the smart knob. They made the screen better integrated in the later models so it looks even better and got rid of the touch feature entirely I think, but honestly, Mazda has the screen/control situation figured out and I wish more companies would use that type of system.
The sense I've always gotten is that Mazda may not build the best, or fastest, or most reliable, or anything else cars, but what they do better than anyone else is build cars that enhance the experience of actually driving it.
I just feel giant screens are just an invitation to enforcing distracted driving, and "innovation" for the sake of it when buttons did the same thing just as well.
Oh yes people that enjoy racing. As a taxi driver I often find you dead on the side of the road I'm usually the first responder. I often already have my phone out telling them if they need to have the sirens on or not.
There's no video on this planet about this car more fun to watch than Doug DeMuro looking like he's about to cream his drawers every time he put the hammer down on one of these.
Your philosophical insights are underrated.
If I'm in an Evo and get challenged to a race by a Plaid, I'd say, "Okay, but you have to follow me", and proceed to take them to a tight hilly area, Autocross or even better a gravel road.
Americans love the 1/4 mile, but I love the WRC, and Physics says that when you try to change direction with heavy vehicles like the Plaid on Gravel, you will continue in a straight line. I would still take any product by Aerial over the Plaid.
An aerial product is a toy that you occasionally take to the track that just happens to have the motor that Tesla I mean look if you put it in normal mode and just treat it like a normal car it's a utilitarian tool that can store things and multiple people including yourself
@@TwoDollarGararge Yes and? If you're spending over 150K I think you can afford two vehicles. I think that not enough focus is on power to weight which is why I think Plaid is stupid get the long range Model Y and an Aerial atom/nomad.
@@Cliffdog01 lol most plaid owners have other vehicles. id rather daily a plaid and weekend a manual gt3. you're talking like someone who can only afford a plaid or two cars equivalent to the plaids cost... yeah in that case sure a plaid wont make much sense. if you could afford a plaid and an ariel atom why wouldnt you? its stupid though because you cant afford both.
Cope. The Plaid will still smoke your Evo in Nurburgring.
"Endanger your Pension at Kunkleman Chevrolet!" is a new high in the Kunkleman saga.
Experienced one last week on uber. Driver launched it. I felt g forces 🤣🤣
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im glad you pointed out mopar hasnt made an electric yet. theyre the last hold out it seems in the entire industry. and they will probably come out with something that looks like a 2010 avenger and gets 200 miles and tops out at 80mph...and then a few years later will release your version of an electric car. hopefully..
They've publicly made a show that they will make the next gen Challenger/Charger with at least an optional EV as the top model since they said for a production car it's easier to make it faster as an EV.
Look on the bright side, at least we got 87,000 more IRS agents.
I just dont see how they can make a muscle car looking electric because thr biggest factor in range is aerodynamics and being low drag.
@@imjashingyou3461 You'd be surprised, there's actually a lot that can be done to make a block more aerodynamic. Plus the normal tricks would be used, like flat bottom stuff and reducing air turbulence in the wheel wells which is easier when you don't have ICE to deal with.
The bit at the end is one of my favorite goofs in the history of RCR
That Kunkleman ad was perfection.
That Mopar piece was extremely funny. “Make them sign a waiver, they’ll do it!” Lol
This car is so fast it arrived before it departed.
One of your best reviews…freaking hilarious 😂
6:40 imo has to be the best statement ive heard in a rcr vid in a loong time.
Awesome!, I was just sporting my Kunkleman Chevrolet Cap on my lunch break walk down here in Australia.
I've been waiting for this. My body is ready.
Give the Nova the same hp and both of you can catch felony's lol, who cares about numbers when the experience is what makes us car people. If that for you means the newest tech or going back and fixing things with a wrench it doesn't matter. Just don't be dangerous and enjoy the fact that we have a choice from cars that are 80 years old to a car that came out yesterday.
Agree
The problem is the choice is being forcefully taken from us
@@NatoriousGamePlay That's capitalism baby
True, lets just enjoy. But I am kind of looking forward to all the EVs being driven recklessly and wrecked... because that gives me a cheap source for tinkering parts, lol.
@@BigDonkMongo that's the government forcing automakers to switch to EVs. How many countries will ban the sale of new gas engines by 2030-2035?
Can we all just appreciate this car for continuing the "SpaceBalls" reference? Other than the acceleration, this is its most redeeming feature!
"NO! Warp speed is too slow! We need... LUDICROUS SPEED!"
I always appreciate a good SpaceBalls reference in the wild. Especially nowadays when I get funny looks for saying "Out of order? Fuck! Even in the future nothing works." When the fountain machine is down in the cafe at work.
Volvo did it first. Look up spaceball shifter in the s60r/v70r
I bought a 2019 Model S Performance with the 21” rims 3k miles ago. Yesterday I hit a pothole and busted a sidewall. Still don’t care. It’s like he said, so fast it doesn’t matter anymore and no one bothers to race me. What happens when the genie grants your wish and you get to be king? What happens when everyone gets that same wish granted? Where do we go from here? These are strange times.
Just buy a fun old car, and don't give a shit lol
Why race anyway? It's not going to feel gratifying to win. You didn't put any blood sweat and tears into building a car to be faster than it originally came. You're not shifting or having to worry about launching properly, a computer that you had no part in programing or making is doing all that for you. Anyone can hold a pedal down to the floor and hold the wheel straight. I guess racing another comparable Tesla might make it somewhat gratifying since at that point, it's your reaction time or the fact that you weigh less than the other driver that's allowing you to win. Otherwise I wouldn't get any satisfaction from winning with such little skill or effort needing to be put into the race.
Didn't you ever see The Incredibles?
Once everyone is special, nobody will be
I mean, I started loosening up around Teslas after constantly avoiding them whenever I was on the bike because I was tired of them nearly hitting me. (Autopilot, especially early autopilot, is not good enough to watch TH-cam on a tablet, random Tesla asshole who shared my commute)
I raced a model Y and it, *again* nearly hit me because he figured he smoked me and slammed over to pass the car in his lane.
At this point, the pool of Tesla drivers who are fun to lose to is smaller than the subset who should actually be behind the wheel of something that fast, and that's tiny too.
Tesla's biggest issue is its driver base, but the cars are pretty cool, if flawed.
Sounds really boring. It's like Syndrome said "... when everyone is super, no one will be!"
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I miss The Roman. I’m glad he had a bit in this video. Love you too, Mr. R, but a man needs some Roman in his life! Keep up the great work folks!
that used care network ad was 11/10
About the bit where this car claps anything on the lights. And I'm sure Mr Regular understands this view
"Your mom's Camry would clap my MR2, I literally do not care"