[Dealer] There is nothing that you can do
that will scare me in this car.
[Kristina] Ooh!
That was nothing? I barely tapped on it.
[upbeat music]
Well hello everybody,
welcome back to my channel!
Today we are going to be
doing something very exciting.
We're going to be test driving a car
and it's one that's been on
HB's list for a very long time.
It's the Tesla Model X.
[vibrant classical music]
[upbeat instrumental music]
[HB] Only because it's self driving.
Only because it's self driving.
[HB] I don't care about anything else.
Because we hate being
in this traffic on 610,
stop and go, lane changes, so annoying.
This lane merge I'm doing right now,
I wouldn't have to do that,
it would do it for me.
But the construction here is never ending,
and by the time they
finish this construction,
it'll be outdated and
they'll have to start again.
[woman coughing]
Alright, we're in the mall,
looking for the Tesla dealership
inside of The Galleria,
just crazy.
[crowd chatting]
So the lights are on.
So are these like--
[Salesman] So we leave the lights on,
just throughout the day, just looks cool.
[Kristina] Cause they're cool.
[Salesman] When people are driving down
-the parking garage here.
-Yeah.
[Salesman] They're all
LED's, so it doesn't
use a lot of electricity--
[HB] Yeah.
[Salesman] And they're probably
never going to burn out.
[Kristina] It's a lot bigger
than I thought it was.
It looks so small on videos and stuff.
It's big!
[Salesman] It's always a
little bit bigger in person.
So let that open up all the way
and just popped it just
a little bit so that way
I can open it myself.
If there was no car there,
it would just open up
all the way like that.
[Kristina] Okay.
[door closing]
[Salesman] I should just
unplug it first real quick.
[HB] So you have to buy one
of those power stations?
[Salesman] Yep.
[HB] Okay.
[Salesman] I'll go over
the charging stations
-here in just a second.
-Okay.
[Salesman] First what I want to show you
is just some of the features
from the key fob here.
So you can see it looks
kind of like the car.
It's got the same silhouette
on it and you can open up,
pretty much all the doors from here.
[Salesman] So I can
double click on the top--
[HB] Yeah, cool.
[Salesman] Open the driver door.
Double click again,
open the passenger door.
You can push the little silhouette
cutouts here on the side
to open the falcon wing doors.
[Kristina] What?
[Salesman] So you can open
each one individually.
[HB] I thought you were
just going to show us
like while we're walking around the car,
this is what it looks like.
[Kristina] No that's so fun!
[Salesman] No, you can
do all sort of things.
[Kristina] Look at that!
[HB] Look at all that options.
[Salesman] You can open up the trunk.
[HB] That's really cool.
[Kristina] So how do you
avoid it from like hitting
like, rooftops or other cars and stuff?
[Salesman] So you can see how everything's
kind of opening half-top right now.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] All the doors
they have sensor strips
built into them, so it senses the pipes
and all this stuff that's around here
and it's trying to be
conservative [mumbles].
I can override the sensors,
tell it to go all the way up,
'cause I know it'll
clear here, no problem.
[Kristina] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Salesman] And so say, this
was like your garage at home
or maybe your garage
where you park at at work,
you could geo tag this spot
and say every time I park here,
override the sensors, open
the doors all the way up.
[Kristina] Oh!
There's no engine in here at all?
[Salesman] No engine up
here, so you can open
the front trunk as well.
You can see up here this
is like a mesh screen
that clips into the windshield.
[HB] Mhm.
[Salesman] The windshield
does have tint built
into it already, all the glass does.
So it's going to keep a lot of the UV rays
and the infrared heat out.
And you have a little visor
there you can pull over
in case the sun's just
in that little bad spot.
It also comes with a towing kit,
I think that's in the back right now,
so you can tow 5,000 pounds with this car.
[background chatting]
If you drive just strictly in the city
stop and go traffic.
We recommend plugging it in
and charging it every night,
it's not going to hurt the
battery pack or anything.
[HB] Mhm.
[Salesman] So this is a six-seater.
You can see the seats are
folded here right now.
[HB] Yeah that's--
[Salesman] So you still
get some trunk space,
but with that seven-seater, like I said,
you can fold that middle
bench flat as well.
[HB] Oh you can do it with that?
[Kristina] So you can't fold these seats?
[Salesman] You can't fold those ones up.
You can move them up just a little bit
but not much further than
what they are right now
but you can see it kind of limits how much
trunk space you have back here.
-[Kristina] Right.
-I see what you're saying.
[Salesman] That's why I was saying
I like the seven-seater
'cause you can still
fold 'em flat, you get a
little bit more versatility.
[HB] How does somebody get in the back?
Does it just lean forward?
I mean if you had the seven-seater?
[Kristina] If you had the seven-seater?
[Salesman] Yeah if you
had the seven-seater
there would be like a
little button right here
that you would push.
[Kristina] Ah huh.
[Salesman] And then the
seat would fold like a
45-degree angle and you could
slide the whole thing forward
so that way people could
get in and out of the back.
[HB] The whole rug.
[Kristina] Is it motorized or is it?
[Salesman] It's not motorized.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] It's like a
motorized release button
for the seat.
Kind of like what these ones is.
[Kristina] Ah huh.
[Salesman] See I clicked
it and then you can just--
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Lift it up.
[Kristina] The Tahoe has that.
[Salesman] Yeah it's kind of like that.
[Kristina] Yeah, yeah, okay.
[Salesman] So inside of
here, you know you got your
little power brick right here.
You got your plug that's
going to go into the car
and it's going to come with
just this, the 110 outlet.
You just plug it into there.
This is really slow, this
will take like four days
to charge the car.
[Kristina] Oh my gosh.
[Salesman] Yeah, this is
meant for like emergencies.
You're taking the car
camping, visiting in-laws
something like that, you know.
[Kristina] Oh.
[Salesman] Or maybe you
have it at the airport
and you're going to be gone on vacation
you can use this for a trickle charger.
What you want to do is there's
another plug you can get,
a 240 volt one.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] It costs
like an extra 30 bucks.
And that'll plug right into here.
[Kristina] That's the
same outlet that a dryer
would use?
[Salesman] Very similar.
[Kristina] Right?
[Salesman] It's a slightly
different plug orientation
but it looks basically the same.
[Kristina] Okay.
So you'd have to get an
electrician to come in
to your garage and--
[Salesman] Yep, just get
that plug installed in there
and this will fully charge
your car in about seven hours,
you know, overnight.
Or you can opt for one of these,
the high-powered wall connector.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] This is $500 but it can handle
a higher amperage so in
theory you can charge the car
a little bit faster.
[HB] What's your kind of cost?
Is it like you're running
the AC all night full-speed?
[Salesman] No man, it's cheap.
It's a smart charger
so you can actually set
the charge limit on the battery.
We don't recommend charging
up to 100% every day.
It puts a lot of wear on the battery.
Just like your cellphones and stuff.
That's why they kind of
stop holding the charge
after a while.
So, you know, you set the charge
limit wherever you want it.
We recommend about 80%, and
then you plug it in at night.
And the charger, once it
reaches that charge limit,
it'll shut off.
[HB] Shuts off.
[Salesman] So that way it
doesn't waste your electricity,
it doesn't overcharge the battery.
[HB] But like for a
whole, you're almost zero
and you had to do a
full-charge, is that, you know,
really occur?
[Salesman] It's going to be
about $10 worth of electricity,
if that.
Well we have free nights,
every single night.
[Salesman] If you have a free nights and
weekend plan you can also-
We have free nights.
[Salesman] You can
schedule the charge time.
We have totally, 9pm to 9am where we have
free electricity.
[HB] So I mean you're better
than a full tank of gas.
[Salesman] Oh yeah, much cheaper.
I mean compared to what
you guys are paying for
the X fiver for that, yeah, for the Tahoe.
Yeah.
The Tahoe's--
[Salesman] I mean, we're
talking about 300-plus miles
for less than $10.
Wow.
[Salesman] So it's a good deal.
No oil changes, very little
maintenance on the car.
There's no sparks plugs,
timing belts, water pumps,
any of that stuff to worry about.
The only real maintenance on
the car is every four years
or 50,000 miles, whichever comes first,
you're going to replace the
coolant in the battery pack
and you're going to
replace the drive fluids
inside the electric motors.
[Kristina] And you have to pay for that
or is that included?
[Salesman] You have to pay for it,
it's a maintenance item.
We'll come out to your house,
we'll go right down your driveway.
It's not terribly expensive,
like 600 bucks or something like that.
It's usually like, like my parents--
[Kristina] Ah this is nice.
[Salesman] They had a
couple of issues with--
[Kristina] Ooh I like these seats.
[Salesman speaking in background]
[Salesman] On, I usually
just leave everything
on automatic.
[Kristina] Oh auto, okay, good.
[Salesman] I'm not going to
go through all the settings
in here, there's too many.
[Kristina] Okay, we'll just drive.
Just know that most of
the stuff is automatic.
Headlights, doors, wiper
blades, auto high-beams,
it's all set it and forget it.
[Kristina] Okay.
Suspension, kind of
already went over that.
It's an adjustable
suspension, you can raise it,
you can lower it.
[Kristina] Oh my gosh.
Whoah.
See it's real subtle right now.
That makes me like, I get
really bad motion sickness.
That was bizarre.
And it'll send that energy
back to the battery.
So you charge the battery,
slow down the car,
all without actually using the brake pads,
just from taking your
foot off the accelerator.
[Kristina] Does that
help with the longevity
of the brake pads too?
[Salesman] It does, you
shouldn't have to change
the pads on this car until you hit like,
200,000 miles.
[Kristina gasping]
[Kristina] That's really
good 'cause the BMW's
are so bad!
[Salesman] Low cost of ownership.
[Kristina] Yeah, that's good, okay.
[Salesman] That's the
beauty of an electric.
So that way you can kind
of get a feel for it.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] We got all of our auto-pilot on
so we'll definitely be able
to try all that stuff out.
[Kristina] Okay, I want
to wait til a lot of these
people walk away.
[Kristina] Ooh it's so smooth!
Oh my God, it's so quiet!
I'm going to drive like a Granny.
[Salesman] That's all right.
[Kristina] Because I'm afraid
of how fast it's going to be.
[HB] Really love the screen.
[Salesman] Trust me,
there's nothing you can do
in this car that will scare me.
I can't attest for your
husband in the back
but I promise--
[Kristina] I'm a better driver than him.
I'm going here?
[Salesman] Yep.
[Kristina] Okay.
[HB] Let's see a turning
radius compared to--
[Kristina] So far it seems good.
[Salesman] It's tight, man.
Ah.
[Kristina] Oh my God, it's so smooth.
[Salesman] You can see the glass here
and you can see it come all the way out.
You can see the top of the buildings here.
[Kristina] What!
[Salesman] This is what makes it so cool.
[Kristina] This is like a spaceship.
[HB] Yeah, cool.
[Salesman] A ludicrous moment.
We would always joke it's a party trick.
[Kristina] Is that like
ludicrous speed, like?
Like Spaceballs?
[Salesman] Yep.
[Kristina] Is that where it comes from?
[Salesman] That's exactly
where it comes from.
[Kristina] That's one
of my favorite movies.
Ludicrous speed!
Go!
[Salesman] That's why we
call it ludicrous mode,
the new Roadster that's
coming out next year?
It's going to have a plaid mode.
[launching]
They've gone to plaid!
[HB] That's a Roadster.
[Kristina] We've gone straight to plaid!
[laughing]
I think it's really cute
that my little blinker
is blinking on the car.
[Salesman] You see the
brake lights coming on
and everything.
[Kristina] So you want me to go south, or?
[Salesman] Yeah, we'll just take 59 South
and just keep heading down.
[traffic rumbling]
[Kristina] I want to give it some gas
once we get out of this traffic.
[Salesman] Yeah when you get up here
feel free to punch it,
have some fun with it.
Like I said, there is
nothing that you can do
that will scare me in this car.
[Kristina] Whoah!
That was nothing, I barely tapped on it.
[HB] That's cool.
[Kristina] Oh my gosh.
[Salesman] Yeah that's like
a quarter acceleration.
[Kristina] Yeah.
Whoah.
I already went up to 53.
[Salesman] You've got a speedometer here
and when these two gray
icons are displayed
that's mean that you
can turn auto-pilot on.
[Kristina] All right, I'm going to do it.
[car beeping]
So you hear that double beep.
You see the blue lights and the blue lines
on the side of the car so
now we know auto-pilot's on.
It feels very weird the
first time you do it
because the first thing it does
is it centers you in the lane.
[Kristina] Ah huh.
[Salesman] And everybody
has a tendency to pull
to one side or the other
so immediately you kind of
want to like, jerk it back to
what feels natural for you.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] But I promise
it's keeping us dead center
in the lane here.
It's watching all these cars around us.
[Kristina] It's crazy.
[Salesman] If one of these
cars suddenly merged over--
[Kristina] Ah Tesla!
[Salesman] It would, you
know, pull to the side,
try to avoid them.
Or it'll pump the brakes,
so it will slow us down.
[HB] I could literally like,
you can really almost
not put your hands on it
and it will drive where you want it to go?
[Salesman] I mean you can
take 'em off momentarily
but you do want to keep one
hand on the steering wheel.
[Kristina] It's probably
a legal thing, right?
[Salesman] Yeah.
You want to keep one hand on there.
[Kristina] Like you're not asleep.
[Salesman] What if you're going through
a construction area and suddenly
the lines on the road disappear?
Auto-pilot's going to have to deactivate.
[HB] Oh I see.
[Salesman] So it wants
you there, you know.
[Kristina] Ready and--
[Salesman] Just in case, right?
[Kristina] Yeah.
[Salesman] Auto-pilot
is not at the point yet
where you can just sit
back, take a nap, relax,
you know?
It's not Minority Report yet.
[Salesman] Yeah, not quite.
[HB] Yeah.
Right now it's really
fancy cruise-control.
Literally it's just helping
you drive a little bit safer.
It takes all that stress and anxiety away.
You can just sit back, relax--
[HB] Yeah.
[Salesman] Put on some music.
Now if we were to use
like a fancier version
of auto-pilot, having it on auto-pilot,
we could put a navigation destination in.
Turn it on and then the car will very much
take you all the way there.
Overtake people, it will
switch lanes knowing
that your exit's coming up.
[Kristina] Okay.
[Salesman] You're welcome to hop on here
or you can throw on the auto pilot
and we can show it off
in the traffic situation.
[Kristina] Lot of room back here.
[Salesman] Or if you want
to, we can just punch
it down the access road and
then get on once we pass that,
and then we can just finish up at the--
[HB] Tell me where to
go, I'll do whatever.
[Kristina] It's crazy.
[Salesman] All right man, so shifter here.
Push all the way down
til you feel it click.
Perfect.
You've got that H, the brake hold.
Go round here, feel free to punch it man.
Just take off here.
Open up right here sorry.
Bit better.
[HB] I was like, not much around here.
[Kristina] So there's
no, the only thing that
I'm noticing back here is
that there's no armrests
for the passengers back here.
[Salesman] Correct.
[Kristina] Why is that?
That's kind of annoying.
[Salesman] It is, it's
something that we've
always joked about, put
something just foldable there,
you know?
[Kristina] So what about
on the bench configuration
does it have something foldable?
[Salesman] The bench, yeah.
The bench is like that
perfect height there for ya,
that basically acts
like an arm rest for ya.
[Kristina] Okay.
[HB] Dude.
[Salesman] That's so effortless.
As you're pushing the accelerator,
it's almost like you're
backing it and pushing
a little bit more, you know.
[HB] Yeah.
[Salesman] It always has more power there.
That performance it never--
[HB] I really like this,
having like an iPad
showing me where little bugaroo is.
[Salesman] Oh yeah.
[Kristina] All right he's on auto-pilot.
What do you think honey?
[Salesman] Even while you're in here
you can slip your turn
signal on, you know,
and the camera's they'll
just check this lane
and once it sees that it's
clear, it'll merge over
and keep going.
[HB] You can text message
and all that, dude.
[Salesman] So how long you
can leave your hands off
is dependent on how fast you're going.
So at slower speeds, yeah.
Like it might let you
leave your hands off.
[Kristina] Oh, that makes sense.
All right guys.
That concludes our test drive.
We'll have more thoughts
about it in a minute.
We're eating in a restaurant
at The Galleria, but
that was so much fun, we had such a blast.
I've never, we were just talking about,
we've never left the
car dealership and felt
energized rather than deflated or drained.
So that was really fun.
Really liked our salesman or demo person.
And we're very pumped about
it so looks promising.
[HB] What are your thoughts?
I thought it was super cool.
It's a lot bigger on the
outside than I anticipated
and based on what it looks like in videos.
In videos it looks like
a really small like,
to me it looks like
some sort of Honda Civic
sort of CRV type of situation
but it's much bigger.
It is still like a lower car.
But the features are incredible.
You know?
And very high quality of
materials, very good build quality.
A pleasure to drive.
[GPS] Turn right.
I was very pleasantly surprised.
What about you?
What did you think?
[HB] A lot bigger than I thought it was.
I don't want to say the
cost but maybe the cost.
But definitely the
aesthetics are far outweighed
by the features and the, I just
kind of enjoyed driving it.
I don't think it's not, I
kind of liked the body design.
A little bit of a SUV slash CRV-ish.
That's what helps with the range.
Like even the choice
of wheels that you have
effects the range that you get a car.
So like the bigger the wheel
the worst mileage you get
or the worse range you
would get on a Tesla.
But like I think that
was something about that.
This aerodynamic.
Like all their cars are very
low and like sleek like that.
[HB] Mhm.
They even take out the door handles.
The door handles don't
stick out because that
gives you 3% more range,
did you know that?
[HB] Yeah.
I just felt like I could
move around in the back too.
Yeah, so spacious!
[HB] Very spacious.
Nothing is taken up by
like, drive train gear
and turning.
Everything is even like if you don't have
enough room in the back for some reason,
which there's plenty of space.
Just about the same as an X5, Bronc.
[HB] Yeah there's quite a bit of space.
It's little spaces but it's--
That part was little but you can put like
your dog stuff, like going to the ranch.
You can put all the dog stuff,
or like a duffel bag for you
and all that stuff would
fit in there no problem.
[HB] The pick ups nice.
Self-driving features.
Oh God the torque was nice.
The self-driving.
You liked that.
[HB] I think my favorite
part was the size of
the display screen, the huge iPad.
Huge.
[HB] The size of a map anyways, it's nice.
[car beeping]
Oh yeah, you like the map for sure.
Let's go see Harper.
Okay um, thank you guys
so much for watch--
Oh this is probably very dark.
Thank you guys so much
for watching this video
and stay tuned on any
development on the Tesla front.
If we're going to be
a Tesla family or not.
Time will tell.
[HB] This just feels like
you're contained in it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh there's baby!
All right, I'll see you guys later.
Bye!
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