Watch: Brand-new Tesla Model Y's roof flies off on highway

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The Tesla Model Y is the Californian electric car company’s newest model, billed as a small SUV with a competitive price.

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The video below may make you wonder, perhaps, if that price is so competitive because Tesla’s saving hundreds of dollars by not sealing the roof of the vehicle on.

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Watch: Brand-new Tesla Model Y's roof flies off on highway Back to video

Or at least, Tesla didn’t on the just-bought Model Y this Reddit user was in when the roof panel flew off.

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“My dad bought a brand new model Y today, and he brought me along to pick it up just in case he needed help with any tech problems,” user indescribables – or Nathaniel, on Twitter – posted to reddit this past weekend.

“Everything was going fine and we were driving back home when we started to hear a ton of wind. I thought maybe a window was open but a minute later the entire glass roof just blew off. After a brief panic we turned around and drove the new Tesla convertible back to the dealership.”

According to the dealership, the roof was either faulty or the factory forgot to seal the roof on. The entire rooftop of the Model Y is made of glass, as shown in this video from Tesla New York:

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Suffice it to say, the view out the top of a Model Y is already pretty impressive, and while it’s undeniably even clearer with that glass panel out of the way, we’d say that was probably not an upgrade the vehicle needed.

Nathanial also said in his post he called highway patrol to notify them the roof had flown off, and may have potentially caused an accident.