How Tesla's Model Y finally completed Elon Musk’s longest punchline that took nearly a decade to complete

Tesla's Model Y delivered the punchline to a joke Elon Musk has been setting up for over 10 years.

In 2019, the Tesla CEO revealed the company's latest vehicle: the Model Y - a redesigned, fully electric mid-size SUV.

And it was the last part of one of Musk's many long-term plans.

With the latest release, the automotive manufacturer completed its offering of four models: the Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y.

Parked up next to each other, can you guess what they spell?

Yep, the model numbers spell out 'S3XY.'

This little inside joke has been in the works for over a decade since Tesla first launched the Model S.

Originally, Musk said he wanted to spell the word with an 'E' instead of a '3,' but Ford held the copyright to the name.

Nevertheless, he celebrated the move with a strange tweet on X (then-Twitter), posted soon before the car was unveiled at a launch event.

The Tesla Model Y was unveiled by the tech billionaire at the Tesla Design Studio in Los Angeles in 2020. Not only that but 'Bringing Sexy Back' was the phrase used to describe its debut.

"It has the functionality of an SUV, but it will ride like a sports car," SpaceX founder told the crowd at the debut event. "This thing will be really tight on corners and we expect it will be the safest midsize SUV in the world by far."

The Model Y seats seven and has a panoramic glass roof as well as a 15-inch (38-centimetre) touchscreen to control everything in the car.

As for pricing, the all-electric SUV started at $39,000 at the time of launch and can travel about 230 miles on a single charge. Whereas the long-range model, priced at $47,000, extends that to 300 miles.

"This could be Tesla's most profitable vehicle, with the giant asterisk that the company doesn't do some of the dumb things it has in the past," commented Gartner analyst Mike Ramsey at the time of the Model Y launch.

"Until Elon is gone, Tesla is going to be a crazy company that occasionally makes breathtaking products," Ramsey predicted.

Only a couple of days ago, Tesla also announced some new features to come to the Model Y 'Juniper'.

According to Teslarati, the updates are set to 'detect humans in the car,' redesigned brake callipers and a Tesla-branded gearbox, to name a few.