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Old Feb 28, 2025 | 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
Footage has been leaked of @AMIRZA786 test driving the new Y.

https://x.com/Teslarati/status/1895158363853594778

Looks about right to me.
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Old Feb 28, 2025 | 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by patgilm
Looks about right to me.

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Old Mar 7, 2025 | 08:54 AM
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Old Mar 7, 2025 | 10:05 AM
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^^ "i'm just driving around in silence like a serial killer"
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Old Mar 7, 2025 | 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
^^ "i'm just driving around in silence like a serial killer"
There was one thing I got from watching this video....I never removed the plastic from my sun visor mirrors. Done
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Old Mar 8, 2025 | 06:39 AM
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AMIRZA786, I meant to ask you about your test driving. What does that new front camera do? Does it show you the front when you slow down to park? How is the 360 view on this new MY? Thanks.
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Old Mar 8, 2025 | 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 1111GS
AMIRZA786, I meant to ask you about your test driving. What does that new front camera do? Does it show you the front when you slow down to park? How is the 360 view on this new MY? Thanks.
Front camera basically gives the car a better view of the front, and I imagine would be able to pickup things like potholes better, as we as objects in front of it. It should also give a true 360 view. I didn't do any front parking, but I don't think it would activate the camera on the screen, it would just give a more accurate graphics representation. So to answer your question, the camera never automatically activated. You can turn them on manually
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Old Mar 17, 2025 | 12:20 PM
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So I saw one on the freeway the other day, about three lanes away and 100ft ahead of me... My wife wasn't wrong. Lol. This thing doesn't look as good as I thought when we were in the mall. It was during the day and tail light were off. It looked very much like a bigger Prius or one of those Kias.
Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
Front camera basically gives the car a better view of the front, and I imagine would be able to pickup things like potholes better, as we as objects in front of it. It should also give a true 360 view. I didn't do any front parking, but I don't think it would activate the camera on the screen, it would just give a more accurate graphics representation. So to answer your question, the camera never automatically activated. You can turn them on manually
When you go into a parking lot and slow down (your MY) to park, the cameras get activated and show the car and parking lines on the screen, right? I wonder what would happen in the new MY.

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Old Mar 17, 2025 | 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by 1111GS
So I saw one on the freeway the other day, about three lanes away and 100ft ahead of me... My wife wasn't wrong. Lol. This thing doesn't look as good as I thought when we were in the mall. It was during the day and tail light were off. It looked very much like a bigger Prius or one of those Kias.

When you go into a parking lot and slow down (your MY) to park, the cameras get activated and show the car and parking lines on the screen, right? I wonder what would happen in the new MY.
This is what you see:


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Old Mar 24, 2025 | 11:27 AM
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Driving down from San Jose to San Diego today and we saw a couple of Juniper Model Y en route.

visually, it's a very nice update. It looks great when you see one up close rather than in pics.
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Old Mar 24, 2025 | 11:36 AM
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Speaking about the Model Y, only the 2026 (Launch Edition) is available on Tesla's website:



Checking inventory, only one pre-refresh seems to be left within 200 miles from me



Only 5 available when I select "All"

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Old Mar 24, 2025 | 03:58 PM
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So it looks like whatever Tesla was doing has worked...almost no 2025 Model Y's in inventory. Can't believe they moved all those units so quickly......now let's see how the 2026 Y does
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Old Mar 25, 2025 | 06:39 PM
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First totaled Juniper:



https://www.copart.com/lot/48694025/...a-y-tx-houston
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Yikes...
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Old Mar 25, 2025 | 07:21 PM
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Wow 😮 Must have recently driven off the lot. I'm guessing they were driving way too fast. That's why I never drive fast
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