Family car review: Tesla Model S 100D 2019

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To say I was excited to drive the Tesla Model S would be an understatement!! I felt like I was getting to drive an art gallery piece rather than a car.

Everything to control the car is within the media screens, or the three stalks behind the steering wheel. The media system screen is ENORMOUS!! The system is nothing like a usual car media system and just like the iPads or tablets we are used to using which made it instantly easy to use and navigate. It doesn't have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto but it doesn't need it. It integrates seamlessly with my phone and was simple to use.

Also within the screen are some wonderful little and big kids entertainment!! Fart mode allowed us to have different fart noises going throughout most journeys!! Or when we indicated. The Christmas and more cowbell themes were also favourites as the road visual in the screen in front of the steering wheel turned into a rainbow!

These things were all fantastic for keeping our daughter entertained on journeys, unfortunately, the fun of fart mode never seemed to tire in our family and my daughter is still running around engaging fart mode! Thank you, Elon!!

My daughter also loved the drawing screen and it was a lifesaver when waiting to pick someone up for example.

I didn't have the Model S for long enough to need to fully charge the battery, I did do a little top up during our Mother's Day day out, we just plugged it in for half an hour and that added enough to the battery to get me through the weekend's driving.

I LOVE that I no longer have to make an extra stop to fill up the car with fuel, I just charge the car as part of my everyday life! AND it is the end of the fuel station debate of whether to take my daughter out of the car when I pay!

The rear seats are all very comfortable, they all have top tether anchorages on the seat backs and there are ISOFix points in the two outer seats. I could just fit three child seats in the back, which was a surprise. Getting the child seats through the doorways was probably the biggest struggle but once they are in there is plenty of headroom and legroom. We could easily fit a 182cm passenger in front of a rear-facing child seat and a 182cm passenger had enough headroom to sit in the back too.

With two child seats installed, I could just sit between them and there is no hump in the floor, which helped with legroom.

In the back, the boot is very large and will hold fifteen shopping bags and all sizes of stroller fit in there with shopping too. There is also an extra under-floor storage area that isn't quite deep enough to hold six shopping bags and shut the lid. Being electric, there is no engine under the front bonnet and instead you get the 'froot' (the front boot)! You can fit two re-usable shopping bags here with room to spare.

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