Juniper Mystery: I had a thought from the Universe, (maybe not ours). I just haven't heard any good answers yet, so why not an edge case scenario for fun.
Would there be any remote reason to attempt a semi-automated unboxed assembly that resulted in an unboxed Juniper in Tx? Why right? Is there anything that Juniper brings to the table that could be uniquely special for unboxed? Or they will use them to do it? Hey, body panels are already painted!
This got me wondering, what is truly different between regular and unboxed if you remove the factory? Same panels, same dash, motors, castings? What changes - bolts instead of welds that hold the sections together? Plenty changes in the factory, but the vehicle? So if you didn't have a model to build yet, but wanted to test some novel process.
And wouldn't we want all of the vehicles unboxed someday? Major retooling, but if it's lower cost, it may warrant some planning and testing anyway.
Ya, it's out there, I warned you. At least I didn't mention that Optimus was integrated into it already.