Tesla's Model S Facelift Becomes Official - Are You Digging This New Look?

I consider that new nose to be a big mistake - but them - who would buy one when they can get almost as good a car in two years in the 3 series.

For those of us old enough to remember, that front end has a certain resemblance to Ollie, the snangle toothed dragon puppet in the 1950's tv show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The chrome ornament with the T resembling Ollie's tooth.

Is the new high hood design necessary to meet Euro standards?

It's not as bad as the Model 3, but it's ugly. Seems like a cost cutting effort than a "facelift"

Not a good move. If I was a designer for Tesla, I'd design an *attractive* signature faux grill for the brand.

Looks like a 1992 Old Toronado. Can you say...DULL.

Acura called - they would like their "beak" returned to them.

First it looked like a big bloated Fusion and now it looks like a caricature of a big bloated Fusion. This was better pre-face lift.

Current trend is moving away from faux oversized grills and toward air dynamic designs. This design establishes a unique and easily recognizable branding for Tesla. Original grill looked too generic.

Apparently Lexus, Audi, Lincoln, Toyota etc. etc. haven't received the memo about grill size. Be careful about "design establishes a unique and easily recognizable branding" as the exact same statement applies to the 1958 Edsel. We all know how that ended. And outside of the grill, the Edsel was one hell of an automobile with many leading features.

Well, gee, where are the oversized quad exhaust pipes in the back then?
Oh, it doesn't need those... How dare they! ;)

Not to overanalyze Tesla's new front-end look, but the design with the symmetrical, tapered black opening with the Tesla badge positioned in the middle - looks extremely phallic and perhaps a little inappropriate!

Look at the front-end detail closely - anybody else agree? The stylized Tesla "T" takes on a whole new look entirely when positioned in the center of the grill "spread".

The Model S is now the first R-rated EV!

I understand that it's an EV and the grille serves little functional purpose but that freed them up to do a whole lot of other things... and they came up with this. I wish they'd tried harder.

So, a minor refresh to a design that premiered in 2009. In automobile years, it's dead.

Three cheers for von Holzhausen! He's back! I always bemoaned what happened to his elegant original design after Mercedes stuck its opulent nose Tesla's business (who'd wanna emulate Mercedes for design anything anyway) only to make like Ross Perot in the end ("interruptus" indeed)! Good riddance Merc! Angular touches to an elegant design? No thanks. Awkwardly superimposed "masculine" angularity?! No thanks! German cars are excellent -- both Elon Musk and yours truly drive one -- but not for their passionate designs (most Porsche models and the CLS excepted). Give me this new, more Italianate beauty anytime. Real men, if they're lucky, drive beautiful cars, I say. In fact, while you're at it, trim that unseemly mega-screen inside. As for the absence of a grille -- refreshing, clean, bold , and cool, IMO. In a couple of decades, folks will smile in disbelief when they see one. Go Franz. my brother, go!!