u/Rob3112

As the title suggests, I'm currently tossing up which is the best Model Y option for us.

My head is saying RWD. My heart is not so easily convinced though 😂

It will be my wife's car so she wouldn't really know/care about/feel the difference day to day - except I'm sure she'd appreciate the better sound system.

I'll be the driver on road trips and I love driving so would like the additional power and curvy road handling of the AWD.

Also, being our first EV I think there's a bit of range anxiety regarding longer trips. I asked Chatty to help with a real world scenario - driving ~900km road trip from Melbourne to Mollymook. The main difference was that the trip would take about 30-45 min longer in the RWD sure to slower charging and the need to top up a bit more at each charge (still only 2 charges needed in either vehicle for the trip). From what I've read so far, many people have bought cars with more range only to realise later that they didn't really need it.

We would only be doing 4-5 trips a year that are more than 250km one way.

So I suppose I'm looking for:

a) reassurance that th RWD will be enough for our circumstances

b) reasons why people bought the AWD and whether you are still happy with your decision

The extra $10k isn't insignificant but I'm happy to pay it if it'll be something we will regret later. Planning to keep the car for hopefully 10 years+.

I'm sure this has been discussed here before but had a good scroll and couldn't see anything so thought I'd drop the question. Apologies if I'm boring you.

Looking to get an EV around the $60k mark.

Have driven Y, 3, Sealion 7, EX5, ID 4, Elroq.

Elon factor aside, I just feel like the Teslas have too much going for them:

- Charging network

- Range

- Tech

- Self driving - even without the $150 p/m FSD the driver assist feels way above the rest. Lane keeping in most of the others is borderline dangerous but Tesla hugs the centre

- Resale value

- Cabin design

- Company won't disappear overnight

- Superior dealer/support network

No physical buttons is a bit of a downer but the software is so well designed that I don't think it'll be a big issue day to day.

For the money, I just feel that the Tesla delivers a far superior product to all the others. I didn't want to feel this way. I thought it'd be a tougher decision but the only other car I've driven that comes anywhere close is the ID4.

Give me some good reasons that I might be missing.