FastLaneJB
Active Member
Why else would they do it? No ones ever said stalks ruin the aesthetics of a car.Has this ever been definitively confirmed or is cost saving as the reason speculation?
I’d like to think they’ve got data on a lot of things which drive decisions. So if you look at the highland they’ve added things that would have increased cost I imagine like better noise insulation, better suspension, ambient lighting, cooling seats, rear touch screen, etc.
In reverse the EV market especially in China is cut throat and they must have wanted to keep the price to similar levels overall. To achieve this they’ve then taken things out of the car that they can. Some of it we cannot see and might simply be cost saving improvements in the number of parts to make the body. Others are small like removing the temperature sensor, horn (Now using the speaker I believe), fog lights. And the stalks of course is the bigger one.
So effectively they’ve mostly given us more car for the same money. I think that should be appreciated and I do. The one maybe misstep might be removing the stalks if it impacts sales too much. You might have found another £200 on the price and stalks could have sold higher than £200 cheaper without.
So there is clearly a method to their madness and for the most part a lot of their cost saving moves also make quite a bit of sense. If Tesla Vision can be good enough, why put in USS. Why have a rain sensor if Tesla Vision can do that also. The execution might not work out as we know but if it did, it’s sound engineering.
I mean take lack of driver display or HUD. Some complain but they sell well and it works fine without if you ask me. They’ll be saving money from skipping both.