Was the Model Y Juniper designed in China?
Was the Model Y Juniper designed in China?
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Was the Model Y Juniper designed in China?
I will not be surprised if it's designed in China since the electric car market over there is the biggest in the world. Of course Tesla has to cater to the Chinese taste/ preferences. We are just an after thought.
Welcome to the new world order. The IS doesn’t dominate on every thing
Right but it looks cheap. Like someone pretending to be rich.
It looks like a knockoff Prius Prime
😂 cannot unsee this now
We’re talking model Y’s here, found on every street corner. There is no pretending to be rich with a model 3 or y
That’s how the Chinese think luxury works and looks like.
Also western luxury. It's just tastes and trends.
True Western luxury is more refined, less ostentatious. More understated with emphasis on quality.
lol this is the funniest take on luxury. Have you seen BMW and Mercedes designs right now? Emphasis on quality is also a crazy take.
Can’t expect the proles to understand luxury.
Every tesla competitor Chinese ev I sat in felt infinitely more luxurious than the model Y.
Teslas are by fact neck and shoulders above most Chinese EVs, there is just one near competitor. Majority of Chinese EVs are cheap and bad ride quality - specifically the BYD didi/zhuan Che/ uber ones.
You might like having three, four screens in your car glaring and blinding you. Or pointless additional features that look like perks but aren’t. Worse driving performance, overall larger size vehicles than Model Y which make it difficult to maneuver.
Plus Chinese don’t allow FSD which is a huge, huge disadvantage for Chinese brands. The rest of the world doesn’t know how good they have it!
yeah, no. I'm talking about build quality and material quality which are of the bottom barrel variety. no one in this sub is going to argue against that. us owners know that we're driving elon's cost cutting specials.
and btw, the saying is "head and shoulders". btw, how's the pic of your parking lot full of teslas going? it's been what, 1 month since you last promised?
I don’t find my MY ride all that great to be honest.
You would if you drove even half of Chinese EVs.
Trust me.
Does your Model Y have FSD or are you only able to use the supervised FSD since/if you’re in China?
No FSD available in Hong Kong although available for sale on the Tesla website from day one.
It's not. It's hard as a rock and this is on my '23 with the "comfort" suspension.
You Must be a $.50 cent army CCP Shill, they don’t sell garbage Chinese EV’s in America.
which chinese EVs have you sat in? actually, no need to answer that. a 90's pinto is more luxurious than a tesla.
Wow sounds like a disgruntled ex-Tesla employee. Sad.
Wow sounds like a disgruntled ex-Tesla employee. Sad.
Doesn't all Teslas? 🤔 /s to be fair, I like the new design.
Nothing wrong with disagreeing on what something looks like. I think it looks cheap and don’t like it. Not a big deal tho. I also think the cyber truck is hideous. The light bar looks ridiculous.
It was. I worked at Tesla
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I digress
I’m in agreement with 9 out of 10 commenters on this thread, I can confirm I did work at Tesla Fremont, General Assembly 3, Model 3, SubFrame, production control dispatcher north docks.
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As we should be. Market forces dictate design. It’s why movies all suck now, and likely will into the future.
Who'se "we". I don't think I'm in the same country as you.
I’d say designed for the Chinese market, hence the look
Tesla Cybertruck concept 2019.
I think it looks like the Hyundai Kona EV.
Model y looks much better tbh
Very unique front light bar there Tesla. Good move.
I'm saving this comparison whenever someone says the new model y looks unique
Rumour has it that most of the design and development work for Highland was done in China. Its probably the same here
The xpeng looks like the cheap wish knockoff of Tesla 😂
Except in this case the Xpeng came first. . . It does look like a mashup of a Tesla and Hyundai in a bad way though
um unless your saying xpeng somehow travelled back in time tesla model y came first. Xpeng like many chinese brands tend to do always try to copy another brands product that is really popular
Xpeng g6 came came before juniper.
They’re really lacking with the software especially, temu software haha
??? Are you correcting their word choice?
??? Are you correcting their word choice?
Hmmmmmmm?
what do you expect its chinese literally xiaomi and huawei for the longest time were knock offs of apple
Just amazes me how one could copy it so badly, and seems like we have some xpeng lovers in here from the downvotes lmao
My first thought was this was the first Tesla where they prioritized the cheap fake rich look that is preferred in China over what Americans wanted.
They didn’t think our opinions were valued.
The sad thing is, it makes sense not to. China is a vastly larger EV market with more viable electric competition. The US has a much more hostile attitude to electric vehicle adoption, and most domestically available competition isn't up to scratch or taking the piss (i.e. Toyota) in relation to what the buyers want. Moreover, Tesla has way more influence in US policy, and US policymakers have demonstrated a will to enforce protectionist isolationism.
So why innovate for the US consumer? Of course they'd aim for the Chinese consumer.
I like my current Y, I’m disappointed by the changes they made to the refresh. Looks cheap, like a Kia or something Chinese. Definitely a downgrade aside from the ventilated seats.
I think they went with a cybertruck look.Is Elon trying to make calls on the design language or something?
This article from 3 years ago said Tesla was going to set up a design center in Beijing.
Pretty sure this is where they designed Model 3 “Highland” facelift and all the accessories that don’t make it to other countries.
3 years later... they copied the copycathttps://electrek.co/2025/01/10/tesla-goes-full-circle-and-copies-its-own-copycat-with-new-model-y/
Eye for an eye type irony
No, it was sculpted by the breezy hands of a wind tunnel!
Duh 🙄
Bruh who cares?
Racists
Who in the model Y sub cares about talking about model Y design?
You want to let us know what discussions you believe SHOULD be in the model Y sub?
Looks Chinese. Not a fan
It’s def uglier but to each their own. Some will like it.
Probably hired some H-1B workers to do the design.
They don’t have those in China. This was designed by Teslas Chinese division.
Ah I thought the US division did all the stuff and the other countries were just manufacturing for their locations. I guess a Tesla is no more of an American car than a Ford.
Nah, it was part of the deal in getting the China factory built, they had to throw the Chinese a bone and gave them a small design division, they’re really only trusted with refreshers, the real design work is still done in Hawthorne, Ca
Ah. Interesting to know.
No, Tesla is definitely more American than Ford. The design work may be spread, but Tesla US cars are almost entirely sourced and built in the US; Tesla is the leading automaker in that regard.
US Fords are often built in the US, but not all. There's a significant amount of Mexican assembly volume and supply chain is much more spread out than Tesla's.
The light goes all the way on the Tesla. Straight white beautiful light. Sleek,Nothing in the middle.
No
china copy everything part 9999.
Yes it was. But Xpeng copies a lot from Tesla, mostly their concept designs and stuff. That's why it looks like Tesla have copied Xpeng on the new headlights on M3 highland and some of the details on the Juniper
So who copied who?
In this case Tesla copied, because XPENG has had the same light design on the g9 since 2022/23
Is it at all possible the US market gets a different front, like model 3? Would that ruin the economies of scale? seems like each plant could handle a slightly different design.
This is entirely possible. Shanghai factory did not move to HW4 until Jan 2024 and that was for Highland only. They also kept USS on the MY (for HK and Australia) until middle 2024 when MY adopted HW4.
The Model Y would look better without these gaps in the front lightbar
Most cars now are designed for the Chinese market. Even BMW designs for China first now since they are the largest market. The change in headlights is part of the trend, makes the cars look more "familiar"
china is where teslas main r&d teams are at.
Thought exactly the same thing
Doesn’t matter where it was designed. It looks much more modern and sleek than the current model. There is always pushback and hate from current model owners until they start buying the new one. The new M3 was the same. It’s a better car than the outgoing model in every way. Tesla knows what they are doing.