Tesla Model 3 vs BMW M2 Competition // The $60,000 Question

Hi, I'm Thomas, I have a Tesla Model 3 James BMW m2 racing car. Well, mine is electric, so actually two, which means that little Prius, yes, Chris, it's a Tesla and it can go from 0 to 60. It's got a nice did you know heart? actually a body battery, what does that mean exactly? Yes Yes Yes Yes. I don't want to interrupt because thank you all for doing a great job, but Thomas doesn't need to handle all the cable and James, right? share a Corolla with your mom, you're looking at the acceleration and my name is Thomas and I'm James and today we have a very relevant

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Yes, both cars have a huge cult following and we want to know if you had 60,000. Us or seventy-nine thousand Canadians, which one should get your money, so if you're looking for spec sheet regurgitation, look elsewhere because the day we find out which of these cars is more fun to drive, which is more exciting. which one feels more special let's get to it what do you want the key okay for the test I'm driving for the test why I want to I want to draw the test what kind of hate in the test I'm going to hate in the Tesla I want to drive the Tesla.

You are worried. I'm just going to talk about quality control. That's what it's about. Yeah. You think I'm going to mention things like the Tesla will drop its rear bumper in a light rain shower or that it occasionally ships with a round door, that's what's worrying you. I'm driving the Tesla, stop talking before we bother everyone, if I'm being totally honest this was a car I was never all that excited about. I'm eager to try it because there are a few things I'm really interested in: long-range all-wheel drive and the electric motors are towards the center of the car, giving it close to 50/50 weight. distribution and a range of 496 kilometers, it also has three hundred and forty-six horsepower, 225 of which go to the rear wheels, making it a rear-biased all-wheel drive system.

Today I am going to take an in-depth look at the performance and interior. design before handing the keys to James, but one thing has to be said: you really like it. I've already gotten to the exterior styling, however the fact that the entire center console is piano black makes me want to have a long chat with Ilan, luckily this owner has done what many have done and wrapped it up with something else . In this case, it looks great, but poor interior material choices aside, I'm here to find out if the Model 3 can take my money. It's a good thing that the m2 now has

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in the name because it certainly faces an intimidating adversary here, but it's also no couch potato with its new s55 engine and twin turbos, this one's zero to 100 kilometer time. auto is 4.2 seconds for the DCT and a pinch.

More for the manual we're testing today with that inline 6-cylinder engine sending 405 horsepower to the rear wheels, it'll probably feel pretty good, it also looks good with its new enlarged air intakes and kidney grille. Full length dominating the front. Those gothic rearview mirrors aren't bad either, so be sure to subscribe and stick around to find out which one we'd spend our money on. Well, a 2,019 m2

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that now generates 40 more horsepower than the original and 460 lb.-ft. of torque compared to 343, what that means is that this is a very fast car, in fact it's 0.1 seconds supposedly faster than that Tesla and because it's twin turbo instead of the old single turbo it does a better job at remove low red flag. that means it feels a little closer to a naturally aspirated engine, which in a turbo car is the biggest compliment you can give, the Tesla Model 3.

I don't have to speak too loudly, okay, the big news here It's how clean and sparse this interior is, it looks like a Scandinavian living room, it's absolutely brilliant, yeah okay, we talked a little bit about quality control when it comes to Tesla, that's a great thing that's been mentioned, but I'm going to ignore it completely. Now I want to focus on how this car drives because that's what matters to me today. The first thing you'll notice very obviously is that the car is very quiet and there are some tires that come with the car that actually have foam insulation inside. of them to quiet it even more and this car doesn't have them because the owner put snow tires on it, but you know, it's still ridiculously quiet, in fact, it's so quiet that I'm a little worried for James because he tends to lose his mind in quiet places I have two arms but I also have four arms, so while the last two M's accelerated to a 7000 rpm redline, this one now revs to a lovely 7600 RPM, which it does very smoothly, so yes, I'm a On a cold day, even with winter tires, that power to the rear wheels can definitely make the car lose its composure a little, but that's fun and fear, which Thomas keeps telling me, is a necessary part of driving well. , so immediately, an intense electric torque, this is it. -All wheel drive, long range non-sport version, so it doesn't have the crushing power of the sport version, but you know, it doesn't matter because the torque is so immediate it feels so good, yes, I'm missing a note exhaust. a guy who likes race cars and classic cars.

I'm missing the exhaust note, but my friend, perfectly honest, the way it delivers the power completely makes up for it and I'm not telling Tesla and electric car owners because they're right. now they go in the comments, oh my god, an automotive journalist has discovered that electric cars are really good, big surprise. I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to the people at BMW, I'm talking to the people who are here to see that. m2 Competition I'm telling you this car feels sensational to the floor, you can feel a little lag in conversation in the lower gears but once you start going this thing really moves and it's so beautiful.

Plus, today I use the six-speed manual transmission so smoothly and it allows me to experience every part of the car I want, the shift quality gloriously matches that of the engine and steering, plus it's nothing to cry about. It's really nice, you feel a lot of confidence coming into the corner and turning in feels good. It's a bit of a cold day here, so I have to be a bit careful, but when you turn the car you feel very safe and then Paula gets help from These cars are active and differentials, which is a special technical software, a differential that the Smarty Libras people in the final division have created and what they have done is create something that continually determines and sets the degree of blocking using a mechanically operated electronic device. multi plate clutch in normal terms that means you have more grip when cornering and you can accelerate with much more confidence, of course things like this are a better experience on a race track and we will take this and the tester to the race track in the New Year, so make sure you subscribe from time to time, you'll be able to watch it the moment it comes out and it just goes offline.

Here's the thing, although I almost wish Tesla would design it or let summer even make it synthetic, some electric motor noise. get into the cabin because I'm starting to like the whine of an electric motor, sometimes it can sound unique and it can sound fun. The electric Hyundai Kona that James and I drove, actually, when you put it in sport mode, it had a cool noise that came through it, it sounded like the Jetsons, it sounded like the future, it was clean and I almost wished I was getting some. That's why when you accelerate the gears in this car and change gears, it's such a nachi gear lever.

It's so charming that it doesn't get old although it's more fun than messing with people in an elevator as long as it doesn't have adaptive dampers the ride doesn't really need them in this em--to it's firm but very composed and controlled and when turning corners I mean , I heard people say this engine sounds worse than the old M2, in fact someone even said it sounds like a civic fart. Can your room sound lovely? I highly suggest you drive one of these before judging at least. from inside, where I'm sitting, where I can do this, yeah, oh, that test doesn't make that sound.

Thomas is sitting there, he may be accelerating with a bit of talking, but he doesn't make a sound even in the wet. Oh, that's phenomenal. Very fast, very good, test the Model 3 on some suitable back roads. I've got the steering in sport mode right now and you know, the steering rack is really quick and there's a really good amount of communication coming through the chassis into the car. I feel like the back road in my driving position is really good. . I adjust the steering wheel by going to a screen here and I use these knobs on the steering wheel to adjust where the Sutro goes and it goes very far towards me and I can lower my seat even further and within a minute I'm in an athletic driving position and the car goes feel athletic.

I feel every undulation on the road the steering feels fantastic it's really good there's not much feedback coming from the steering wheel but through the suspension I'm feeling the road if you're watching this you've never seen this youtube channel before I'm a fan of gasoline I'm a gearhead I really am I work on cars I race cars I love internal combustion engines but This car to me, like that guy, feels great, throw it on a back road, the front end, even with tires for snow, it feels good and you know, when I push it on the back, it starts to follow behind, now the problem here is that you can't. turning off the traction control on this car, that's a big deal to me, however a local place in Ontario called Mountain Pass Performance has created a module that can actually completely override the traction and stability control and keep the abs and it allows the

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three to do epic drifts, which means that in the summer we'll put one of these on the track and properly compare it to something like a m2 to see what it can really do at the limit because driving this on in a back road, this car feels alive, feels organic, okay, move in, driving position is very nice, I like where it is, it can't go lower than this.

Thomas would probably want it lower, but that guy is crazy quality of materials. ok it does a good job everything is pretty good and the new gauges are really nice they are quite old and retro and look a bit dated but in a way that is kind of a throwback to the old cars of yesteryear so which is like a well and they are so clear that the seats are also very well reinforced. I am very comfortable. You know Tess has a lot of fancy gadgets and creature comforts, but this isn't without its creature comforts. I have the heated seats on right now.

It's a cold December day. I have the heated steering wheel on right now, it's nice and warm, so this car has everything you'd expect a modern car to have, but I wouldn't be surprised if the tester replaced it given it's a bit like a postmodern style interior. , the BMW entertainment system is super intuitive, really nice, but again I'm worried that's a place where the tester will outperform it, so one of the cool quirks that I like about this car is that although the Tesla has a trunk and then a trunk and its trunk and then a frunk and you hear it and there are a million storage spaces if you open the front of this car, you won't find a front, you will find the carbon fiber reinforced truck bar of these BMWs and it's awesome, I know you're not allowed or frowned upon to be attracted to cars, you get stuck in a mechanical file, but what if you were simply attracted to a carbon fiber strut bar?

Okay, let's take a look at this infotainment because it's really special and in my opinion it goes up against one of the best infotainment in the business, BMW iDrive with James right now, and this is incredibly good now, immediately the problem arose that I thought I was going to have. with it, all the controls are happening on this screen, everything including my volume and climate, and I've seen it fail miserably occasionally in cars, the infotainment is slow, it's not intuitive, this is none of those things to which it has a similar response to that of the iPad.

In fact it's a little better than the finish I've ever had, if I'm honest, I can zoom in and out on my maps, it shows me exactly where I am, it's incredibly high definition and all my controls are here. I can see my speed there. I wish they'd put a head-up display on it so my speed was directly in front of me, but I don't mind looking over here, oh, all the way down the bottom, I've got everything I need with a quick tap, so I've got my Climate control, temperature rises and falls, heated seats, just a quick press of a button.

I can turn up the car controls, change the mirrors on the steering wheel and adjust everything related to the safety systems.driving. I can switch to drive and select sport mode. Acceleration can be standard or cold, let's put it on cold right now, yes it reduces it completely, it's a good way to save range, but on standard, yes it works again. I can adjust my regenerative braking and I can press the crawl button which allows it to simulate a torque converter, so when I take my foot off the brake it starts to go forward a little bit.

My music is also easy to make. I lift up the music button by clicking that swipe up and it gives me my entire station and since the screen is so big it can show me many stations at once so I don't have to scroll much. This screen and this interior are all you need and the climate control. The reason the interior looks so clean is that you're missing climate vents because all the air comes whistling at you from this giant bar on the other side of the center of the dashboard and I can adjust it by coming in here and moving the direction so that the air comes towards me or whatever.

I think it's really cool and cleans the inside so well. Would I own this car if it meant I could do that every day, you're absolutely right, I would, so what is this car? So is it the return to M? Everyone says yes and no and I'll say yes because it's fantastic, it feels like that. an M car. I just don't like the phrase "back to a final car". I don't think it's fair to poop on the old m2 because it was a fantastic car in itself and there's a lot of elitism with these things, where is it?

Finally it's an M car or is it that you know this happens with AMG cars too, as well as the C 43 AMG, that's not the real mg. Can we stop the elitism please? These are all fantastic cars and all attempts by manufacturers to interest the enthusiast community. The more AMG 43 you would say yourselves the more you can justify selling 63 and same with BMW so stop hating just love the one you love more even more Tesla will have to be something impressive to make me consider it. We're done with this so let's go back and look at the Model 3 test, this is an electric car whether we like it or not it's the future so for a guy like me who has resisted driving electric cars because they don't have a 7500 rpm redline they don't have a manual transmission they don't have the things I love but to be honest they make up for it in other areas enough for me to really get into these cars because this car is fun, attractive, exciting, it's a driver's car and can't wait for James to drive it.

I'm greeted by silence so that's always where I was recently at the electric Kohner and for some reason it wasn't that creepy. like this, oh there's something immediately charming about this, I don't know what it is, the uniqueness of a torque electric motor is not lost on me, but in the m2 competition, every time I get in this car, I get that feeling of excitement . and badges everywhere and it makes an incredibly good noise, yes the Model 3 is amazing but it's really really hard for me to argue with the sound and a manual transmission but I'll give this an honest and fair review taking all things in consideration because that has to be done especially by a guy like me, yeah it's strange because the last time I drove the m2 I remember thinking oh wow there's no turbo like oh ha the throttle response is very good but after leaving an electric car and In this, it feels dead on the accelerator.

I can't believe I'm saying that about an Amphicar. Well, I have to reset my brain. Not in an electric car. It feels different. Wow, there's actually quite a bit of weight in the steering. Very good comments on this, only the owner of this car refers to this as a stormtrooper named Finn from Star Wars, which is funny because of the way he looks, but right now there is like a patch of snow, so it looks like I am doing a hyper jump every time I do that wool. Okay, this thing is not the Performance Pack and it accelerates very quickly by putting it into a corner.

Oh yeah, it feels really alive, yet it will literally do this exact same curve. in the

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three and you know there's the same or less communication between the chassis and the communication with the road in the m2 than there is Nutella and I can't believe I'm saying that about a BMW M car. I love the interior of this one. What I love is so minimalist and so wonderful, the tablet you feel like you are here, you are an Apple store, that talk is wonderful, today in the m2 with the turbo got into this thing and, unlike the m2, where you are.

I'm paying for Phillips gas and premium gas for this car. Oh, you don't charge it at your workplace and you don't pay a dime for the cost of running this car. There's something to be said about that and, oh, it's just that there's something about a proper. 7,500 rpm limited slip differential mated to a manual transmission that you can't argue with Wow Wow, this is a big deal, it's so communicative that I don't feel disconnected the way I thought I would, wow. I feel like I've been sold in the first 30 seconds, what does this mean? Who I am?

Thomas is right. I get scared when I'm silent. I tend to have crunch at the front and the m2 feels a little more aggressive it feels a little sharper the steering has a little better weight on the m2 however there is something about the way the car goes over the bumps on the model 3 that I don't fully understand in the m2 that I don't But it doesn't mean that this is bad because there is an excellent car, this car feels like the future and from the future the news is good. I know the look of this car is quite divisive but it looks so unique and it is changing the game and whether you like the Model 3 or not it is forcing other manufacturers to move with the times and soon we will have the Audi e-tron, the Porsche taken, this is the start of a very interesting next step for two manufacturers, oh ok the overall driving experience in the m2 is better in my opinion, I have no idea what James is saying but I can tell you Which, at this point, I think I would still buy the m2, however, it's hard for me to describe to you how close this is to me. from a guy who is obsessed with motorsports and racing and a proper driving experience, my car that I drive on the weekends looks like this and I'm telling you right now the model 3 is so good and it's so much fun to drive that I would hardly have chosen this m2 if I had the money to buy one of these cars, which I don't, I would still buy the m2 but by a very small margin, so my choice was made, but James couldn't decide right away.

He loved the m2 competition, but the commitment to the uniqueness of the model 3 meant that since it came out it's all he's been talking about and for that reason it would be his choice, but he also kindly requests that he be allowed to keep his sunday . afternoon