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Comment by mattlondon | Hacker News Reader

Regardless of the politics, the new look for the Model Y is awful in my opinion.

They took something that was quite tidily styled and classy (IMHO) looking, and have made it into this weird horizontal slit thing that looks cheap and nasty, and feels at odds with the rest of the car's shape and massing. A real mess of a facelift I think - no one would willing pick that if they cared about what it looks like.

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Elon probably can't accept that his Cybertruck design sucks, so he is slowly forcing the design language onto other models.

I suppose looks are subjective. I think the facelift is appealing, and from what I've seen online the general reaction has been pretty good in comment sections.

Most importantly, it differentiates the model y from the model 3. Before the facelift the y sort of looked like a bloated model 3 with the exact same design language.

I guess it has been polarising but I have to be honest: I quite like it. Of course it's not Porsche or Audi styling, but I think it's clean and understated and quite functional. Some of the negative sentiment appears to draw parallels with Chinese brands. Perhaps that's true, but I don't dislike BYD styling.

I like the new look of the Y.

I dislike the new look of the Model 3, though, which looked kind of cute and from the front somewhat like a Porsche and now looks sort of aggressive with the thin lights.

they look good irl and pretty poor in photos.

regardless - you do realize tesla isn't about the looks, but user convenience? No car comes close it's integration.

The thing with new look is that is makes it easy to spot cars who were bought after the Nazi salutes. I genuinely wonder who would want to take that risk.

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