Clarkson Is Astonished By The Self-Driving Tesla Model X | The Grand Tour

[Music] with its bobby dazzler backdoors this doesn't look like a normal family suv it looks better especially on the inside and it's more practical too because you have seating for seven a boot at the back that's big enough for an owl sanctuary and then another boot at the front because of course it's electric so there's no engine most of all though i'm intrigued by this car because it represents a whole new way of thinking about what a car actually is take this enormous command and control screen as an example it does all the usual stuff navigation music connectivity and so on and so much more besides for example if i want i can turn it into a sketch pad then i can just you know draw pretty patterns and so on as i go along or if i'm bored with being in where am i here there you are swindon which i am i can change it so that i become on mars look at that i'm actually on mars i mean i'm not there obviously but it says i am and that's fun oh and this is a good one if you don't want to see the car you're driving depicted on the screen you can change it so that it becomes bonds lotus that is actually quite funny [Music] of course you may think all of this might be a bit of a distraction when you're driving oh well now you see that's the thing because if i pull this lever here twice i get a bong to tell me i've engaged the autopilot which means i'm not driving it is seriously it's doing it all by itself legally cars aren't really allowed to drive around by themselves but this is getting awfully close because it's reading the white lines in the road and then simply sticking between them then if i want to change lanes i don't have to bother with any of that mirror signal maneuver nonsense you just put the indicator on and if it's safe to pull out it does put the indicator on to pull back into the central lane and that's just astonishing all of this means that i can drive along writing important messages on my sketch pad because i know that if the car in front slows down i'll slow down if it speeds up i'll speed up if the traffic stops i'll stop honestly this is the most relaxing thing i've ever driven because all i have to do is sit here unless of course i can't be bothered to do even that okay the car is over there and i literally can't be asked to walk to it so take out my phone put it in summon mode connecting to vehicle and here we go i mean it can't extricate itself from a parking space or come to you from the other side of town so it is only a gimmick but what's wrong with a gimmick that's brilliant and stop but what's it like if you do actually drive it [Music] well because it's electric it's quiet obviously eerily quiet stupidly quiet too quiet as they say in the movies it's also heavy because of its massive battery pack however because it's mounted under the floor the center of gravity is very low down and because you've got one electric motor at the front driving the front wheels and one at the back driving the back wheels the car feels nimble and agile feels good so you're thinking it's a fun-filled family car with show-off doors and lots of stuff to excite your inner child but that there's nothing here for the enthusiastic motorist hmm not so fast on that one because what i'm gonna do now is drag race this family suv against a mid-engined v10 powered 600 horsepower audi r8 right before i do this i'm going to engage what's called ludicrous mode there we are hold on i've got a choice really want to do this no i want my mommy yes bring it on there we are and then because i have the mental age of a nine year old i'm going to use the warp speed graphic and there it is right good i'm ready sweet jesus that really is properly ludicrous 100 miles an hour 105 110 112 yards coming up that is astonishing small wonder this thing is fitted with my favorite mode of them all celebration mode there we are all i have to do now is put it in park get out and lock the doors watch this [Music] so this may be a two and a half ton seven seater playstation [Music] but it'll do naught to 60 in 3.1 seconds and has a top speed of 155 so it really does seem to be all things to all men it's serious and light-hearted it's sensible and daft it doesn't feel like anything else it doesn't go like anything else it's fabulous [Applause] there are however some drawbacks but before talking about those mr willman said i should fill the remaining six seats with a team of lawyers first thing i want to talk about is range because tesla say this will do 351 miles between charges but in my experience electric cars never do the range how extensive is your experience jeremy how many electric cars have you driven two ah both of them failed to do the range that the manufacturers said they would do because it depends on temperature it depends on a million things in any way as you've said legally we need to make very clear it depends it depends on the conditions most people are not driving like a maniac like you i'm not i'm doing 34 miles an hour at the moment but so are we clear we completely accept that this car can do 351 miles between charges don't we i don't know i've tried it well i think we should accept that if that's what says i say us and we don't have any evidence to contrary well you just take what a car manufacturer says as being gospel well says its cars are exciting i wouldn't wish to contradict them on on television unless we had strong evidence to the country suggesting a claim of a manufacturer is untrue is not where we're going to go today is it all right then batteries we on this show have some experience of electrical fires on in a crash and this has the same sort of batteries that the rimac had yeah that was in a crash wasn't it drove off an edge and rolled down two hillsides what are you saying is too small to see over the steering wheel i'm not saying anything i'm just saying that that was a crash what people don't understand is that if you crash an electrical car and it has lithium-ion batteries it could catch fire and often the fire brigade will turn up and they've only got water on board so as you're sitting there on fire you're then being electrocuted it's just something that's worth bearing in mind isn't it well i think we should make it clear that we're not suggesting that these cars have any inherent defect i mean look what happened with samsung with their batteries oh we're not going to start defaming samsung i think the battery is a good uh analogy for labor law and reviews generally and that you have to ha it has to be balanced you must have the positive and you must have the negative should we bear that in mind no what we should bear in mind is that what i've just written on the screen i know an area we need to discuss i think the biggest drawback with this car actually is the width of it it's so wide 79 inches that it won't actually go across albert bridge in london it really won't go across the bridge or do you mean it won't go through a width restriction a road narrowing right so i have to say this is too wide to fit through the width restriction at the start and indeed finish of albert bridge that's perfect [Music] there is however one advantage to this size especially in a supermarket car park when your model x is full of lawyers no listen i mean what do you say just stay there all right stay there okay got the phone summon mode forwards so that never ceases to amaze me a little bit more little bit more and stop right now they can't open the doors they're trapped which means they can't interfere when i tell you this car's really big drawback it's a hundred and fifty six thousand pounds

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Length: 11min 56sec (716 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021