Is it me? Or is there a lot of hand-wringing going on
Same for the OP - whose thoughts were similarly constrained. The roof is not your only friend. Nevermind the fact that the rear of the car for luggage doesn't affect a cars CD nearly as much as the roof of the car. Yeah, I get it - the OP backpedaled to state things less inflammatory. But the issue of great complaint seemed to be storing junk on top. Any hand wringing necessary really needs to be about some other thing. Oh - btw the picture depicting storage for multiple things is not constrained to three bikes. A friend of mine is a metal fabricator and he said five or six bikes will be no more or less problematic than the advertised image. There's a bit of irony that folks that would consider the MX which is definitely a vehicle that appeals to out-of-the-box thinkers - that said folks would then be so easily stumbled over rooftop luggage.
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Seems you took some healthy conversation about challenges using the MX as a full-size SUV replacement a little far. Hand-wringing? Out-of-the-box thinkers? Constrained thoughts? Storing junk? Come on...don't be ridiculous.
The challenges I (and many others) see are not a result of me having "constrained thoughts"...they are facts of life. There is a reason Thule and Yakima are industry giants and I'm not interested in compromising just in order to force the MX to do something it is not designed to do. Let's take some use examples.
That hitch rack with the storage and bike rack. Let's say it actually can carry all 5 bikes I need:
- unlike a normal hitch bike rack it doesn't fold down/away when not in use to access the rear of the car
- if that thing is fully loaded, I'll need to unload it and remove it to use a supercharger. We don't have any pull through superchargers here.
Next week my family is driving to Whistler. Cargo area some stuff and the rest in the rooftop box with the skis. Have you taken a family of 5 on a weeklong ski trip? The amount of gear (let alone coolers, food, etc) is staggering.
- so now I have to use this hitch rack but still need a ski rack. Thule sells a ski rack that attaches to bike racks but in the years I've skied I've seen ONE. Why? Because first of all it's a Franken-rack. Secondly it's a pain in the butt to load a ski rack vertically. Lastly, and most importantly, skis get FILTHY behind your SUV rather than on the roof. Not good for the bases.
- not to again mention the challenges of having all this junk on my hitch and it not folding away...and again the supercharger challenge.
I'll skip the example I have my bikes on the hitch and my standup paddle boards on the roof. I'll assume that challenge is pretty obvious. ;-)
While not the OP I understand the challenge. I own a MS. I have a deposit to replace it with a MX. I'd LOVE to keep my MS and add the MX, but without a roof solution it doesn't work. I have to replace my MS and still rely on a an ICE SUV to do the hauling. I'm not bitter. It is what it is. If the MX didn't have FWD, I'd be much more inclined to figure out how to ditch the ICE, but for now it isn't to be. Oh well. But I agree with the OP...given an option of standard doors I'd choose it in a heartbeat!
Those vacuum seal mounts are interesting but again...not interested all the compromises involved. Not to mention that moment when my five year old forgets that Dad said not to open that one FWD and it opens and hits the rack. I assume the FWDs don't have sensors on that very middle/top part of the door?
So let's stop saying things like "constrained thinking" and get back to real discussions around this amazing vehicle.
) had I the power, I would delete this one. The supplier premise is flawed, the desire for a roof rack on this EV is misplaced, there will NEVER be a Model X with "regular" doors. That's simply a different car. 
