Tesla Model Y SUV ‘Nice Try’ TEASE ahead of this week’s reveal

Tesla has revealed a new tease image of the Model Y SUV ahead of its reveal on 14 March, complete with a joke in the image.

A couple of weeks ago we revealed that the new Tesla Model Y will be revealed on 14 March as Tesla finally get round to revealing a baby version of the Model X, and with it a car which could easily eclipse the sales for the Model 3.

As we know, Elon Musk likes a joke or three (not all well-judged), so when the tease image of the Model Y arrived we tried to do what we always do and run the dark image through Photoshop to see if we could yield more detail than Tesla wanted.

But all we actually managed to do was reveal Tesla was ahead of us, and changing levels simply resulted in just a small difference to detail – and that detail was a message from Tesla on the number plate saying ‘Nice Try’. Oh, well.

What we know so far of the Model Y is that it will come with a starting price of around £40k (in the UK), share about 75 per cent of its parts with the Model 3, not get Falcon doors, have a range between 200-275 miles (depending on model), be around 10 per cent bigger than the Model 3 and have two rows of seats, not three. It will also be able to use Tesla’s new V3 Superchargers.

Expected to arrive in production (it’s going to be built at Tesla’s Gigafactory) in 2020 in the US, you can expect it to be at l;east 2021 (or later) before it arrives in the UK.