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I wonder if we'll ever get the truth behind its reason for being and its design choices? Maybe that will be the domain of historians.

• potato3732842 2y ago
  Maybe details will come out in future years my and many other people's best guess is that they never really expected to sell all that money and sales are basically the public subsidizing R&D So some of the design features you get are optimization for low volume sales (e.g. the body shapes and heavy re-use of Model 3 assemblies/components). Some of it is trying new things so they can learn how to not suck at them (think Plymouth Prowler but for a different set of skills). I assume the eccentricities like the light bar, the actual shape of the vehicle and other stuff are a result of designers leaning into or embracing constraints imposed by the above. Of course none of this is gonna win you buyers hence the tight lips even before Elon's politics became a subject of scrutiny.