Tesla Wins Over Selling Sunset's Jason Oppenheim, Who Ditches Bentley for Model Y

Jason Oppenheim, the luxury real estate broker and star of Netflix’s Selling Sunset, has traded his Bentley for a Tesla Model Y — and he is crediting Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for the switch. In a video posted to X on Saturday evening, which he labeled “the most important video I’ve ever posted,” Oppenheim documented a roughly hour-and-15-minute commute from Newport Beach to his Los Angeles office while FSD handled the drive and parked the vehicle without any input on the wheel or pedals. He said he handed the Bentley down to his father, having decided he no longer had a use for it.

Tesla amplified the clip from its main X account about two hours later, highlighting a quote that quickly circulated beyond the EV community. In it, Oppenheim described the system as life-changing, said he convinced his brother to buy one during a phone call, and pledged to purchase ten Teslas with FSD for his employees, citing the safety argument. He was direct about his own motivations, admitting he is a distracted driver who tends to answer emails and texts behind the wheel, and framing the employee purchases as a way to keep his team off their phones while driving. Elon Musk weighed in shortly after the video went live, saying the system feels like magic.

The timing works in Tesla’s favor. The company delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, beating Wall Street expectations and marking its strongest quarter ever without the benefit of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit. That result was announced as Tesla pushes a business model built increasingly around software.

FSD has been subscription-only in the United States since February at $99 per month. In its Q2 update, Tesla reported 1.48 million active subscriptions, a 56 percent year-over-year increase, with more than 55 percent of new North American deliveries leaving with FSD attached. Investor Ron Baron pointed to that attach rate last month when he told CNBC that now is the time to buy the stock. At current pricing, Oppenheim's ten employee cars alone would contribute$990 per month, or roughly $11,880 annually, in FSD revenue.

Tesla AI chief Ashok Elluswamy said in July that FSD had logged more than 12 billion miles and was going about twice as far between collisions as manual driving. Even so, the system remains supervised, meaning Oppenheim and his staff are still required to keep their eyes on the road. Tesla is rolling out version 14.3.10 with Automatic Collision Evasion, which can steer or brake on its own to avoid a frontal crash. Celebrity endorsements are common currency in Tesla’s marketing playbook, and Oppenheim’s following among a luxury-oriented audience gives the company a fresh bridge to buyers who might not otherwise consider an EV.