In your case, you'll push for the change and not take the delivery(guessing), but obviously many people took delivery w/o realizing the difference or not caring about it. If those people find out later and the switch back to alcantara happens as well, I would think they'd want some sort of rectification just to not feel that they were screwed heartlessly.
I was trying to make the difference as obvious as possible in the photo. I didn't notice it until Zaphod asked about the visors and I looked more carefully.
They could HOLD the PUP orders and start the Standard Range deliveries. I don’t care what it’s called. Ultrasuede would be fine (nearly the same thing) but it DOES matter. (To simplify production, giving the option to get everything else in the PUP except the premium parts they can’t/won’t do would slow production by complicating it)
Suede (and the synthetics like Ultrasuede and Alcantara) looks and feels premium. The other does not which is fact (sorry). As others have said, it’s false advertising. And yes, I did notice it when they revealed the interior and have since.
I don’t think I could handle the heartbreak. I, like tons of us, have been drooling over and aching to own this car for years. I’d ask in advance knowing I would tell them to make it as advertised if it was wrong.
Going by this, the demand from Tesla wasn’t high enough. I’d expect changes on S and X to Ultrasuede once contracts expire.
OT, but it was actually called Ecsaine when Toray developed the material.
This! I don't mind the "cloth", but the mix and match look like some high school project from the 70's.
I realize. Point is to keep minimal variations on the production line while still running at maximum possible speed. People wanting SR, IMHO, are more likely to skip PUP though it would have to be held on SR models as well. Of course, if they had enough LR non-PUP orders, they could toss them in too
While your at it, how about tweeting him for heated steering wheel, battery heating that works at -20C, turn signal icons that can be seen in peripheral vision (upper corners of UI, invisible when not operating), 2 taps of wiper button to turn wiper on (normal speed), 3 taps of wiper button to turn wiper on (fast speed), wiper dialog box that appears when wiper button tapped is sized to cover 90% of UI screen for 3 seconds with huge buttons so that selection of desired wiper delay setting can be done with peripheral vision only......
