The Tesla Model 3 interior is unlike anything we have ever seen before

• The Tesla Model 3 has the most minimalist interior we've ever seen in a production car.
• Not every decision was brilliant, but most were, and the ultimate impression is extremely satisfying.
• The Model 3's interior design is a powerful symbol of both the company's philosophy and what it believes cars should be like in the future.

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Tesla has completely reset expectations with the interior of the Model 3, the company's mass-market vehicle.

We'd already spent some time with the car at a launch event for the $35,000 all-electric machine at Tesla's California factory in July. At the time, I wrote that it was the most minimalist auto interior I'd ever seen.

I experienced the Model 3 for only about 15 minutes back then. But this Tesla let us borrow bright-red Model 3 for several hours. Myself and my colleague Ben Zhang drove it around Manhattan and New Jersey, and we took in the zen-like interior environment, where subtraction is everything.

This was a $55,700 version of the Model 3 - the company isn't yet manufacturing or delivering the base $35,000 car, just the $44,000 premium-level vehicle. So although the interior was obsessively minimal, it was made of the best bits and pieces Tesla has available.

Here's what we thought:

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