--- title: Watch a Price is Right Model Accidentally Help a Contestant Win a Car description: A contestant on 'The Price is Right' got a new set of wheels Thursday, thanks to a little help from one of the show's models canonical: https://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-03T01:31:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:20.145Z og:title: Oops! Watch a 'Price is Right' Model Help a Contestant Win a Car og:description: But she's not in trouble og:url: https://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Oops! Watch a 'Price is Right' Model Help a Contestant Win a Car twitter:description: But she's not in trouble twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Oops! Watch a _Price Is Right_ Model Help a Contestant Win a Car by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 3, 2015 1:31 AM CUT by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 3, 2015 1:31 AM CUT A contestant on _The Price is Right_ got a new set of wheels Thursday, thanks to [a little help](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmsyEMFYsus "undefined") from one of the show’s models. The woman’s first guess on the cost of the Hyundai Sonata SE was incorrect, so Manuela Arbelaez removed that option from the list. But then she errantly removed the one below it, too, which happened to be the correct price. She quickly realized her mistake and, as host Drew Carey congratulated the contestant—”Manuela just gave you a car!”—she placed her hand over her mouth in disbelief and then hid behind the prop. A laughing Carey then cut to commercial. Arbelaez later tweeted a few jokes about the incident and said she wasn’t in trouble: “phew!” > [](https://twitter.com/ManuelaArbelaez/status/583692205954433024) > [](https://twitter.com/ManuelaArbelaez/status/583695246392983552) _Read next:_ [_The Best April Fools’ Pranks of 2015_](http://time.com/3764210/best-april-fools-pranks-2015/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/"},"headline":"Oops! Watch a Price Is Right Model Help a Contestant Win a Car","datePublished":"2015-04-03T01:31:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:20.145Z","description":"\"Manuela just gave you a car!\"","url":"https://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/","name":"Oops! Watch a Price Is Right Model Help a Contestant Win a Car"}}]}] ```