Tesla Model Y Earns Enviable EPA Rating

Create an elegant design that will hold up over time and then leave it alone so that you don't ruin it. The Model S is an excellent example of doing it the right way. Subaru's habit of starting with a clean design and then repeatedly messing with it is the reverse.

Not until they're a big enough company to be able to handle the extra work and expense of revisiting existing models while working on new ones. 10 years ago Tesla had one very niche product. They discontinued that to make their second. It's taken 10 years to get 3 products on market concurrently and they're still trying to build out a fuller lineup. I think they'll continue with long, unrefreshed generations and make do with software tweeks and hardware upgrades for the next 5-10 years. It seems to work pretty well, given that their design language is pretty clean and uncluttered. It ages the vehicles less over the years without needing tweeks. They did, however, give the S a very mild facelift to match the styling of the X and 3.

The Model S is the perfect example of why Tesla shouldn’t try facelifts. The original S design was elegant and really complimented the cars design. The new design, alongside the X and 3 are pretty bad.

@Hummer I don't think the duck-face is especially attractive, but i do give them credit for fighting the gaping-maw trend that every other automaker is caught up in. Reining in the grill design has to start somewhere. Also, i think the overall simplicity of Teslas makes up for the awkwardness of the snout and makes them look better than most other cars today. I don't think I'm with any sort of majority, but i think exterior design is pretty atrocious across the entire industry right now with very few brought spots.

@SlowMyke I’m not sure, I critiqued all the mid 2000s cars with tons of acres of plastic painted bumpers that looked anywhere from boring to unattractive and this seems like an extension of that design language everyone else left behind.

Hummer, I on the other hand thinks the new facelift is better and the older design was pretty bad.

@SlowMyke They didn't so much discontinue the sports car, as Lotus simply stopped making that body model, and that was that.

@Hummer The original Model S design just looked like acres of black plastic on the front end. I like the new one, which more accurately reflects function, a lot better. I appreciate Tesla for not giving into the trend of making every vehicle into a cartoon of a perpetually angry face. We are too angry and impatient on the roads as a society and design from a lot of makers just feeds into that.