After all the hoopla died down, there was one question on my mind: They wouldn't do something as stupid as give the Model 3 a trunk versus a hatch, right?
It might not be too late to save the Model 3. That being said, there looks to be an awful lot of structural metal around the trunk opening.
If I had to guess, this is another Elon Musk obession, in this case, the glass roof of the Model 3.
Everyone I've talked to has nixed their plans to buy a Model X *because* of the gullwing...er, falconwing doors. They're slow, expensive, and utterly pointless. Welcome to the first SUV that cannot run a roof rack. Ditto with narrowing the side sills of the Tesla Roadster. Or the pointless carbon fiber body panels that added thousands of dollars of cost to an already money-losing product.
I'll take a Model 3 with a metal roof and a real hatchback, please.
Otherwise, there's always the Chevy Bolt.
It might not be too late to save the Model 3. That being said, there looks to be an awful lot of structural metal around the trunk opening.
If I had to guess, this is another Elon Musk obession, in this case, the glass roof of the Model 3.
Everyone I've talked to has nixed their plans to buy a Model X *because* of the gullwing...er, falconwing doors. They're slow, expensive, and utterly pointless. Welcome to the first SUV that cannot run a roof rack. Ditto with narrowing the side sills of the Tesla Roadster. Or the pointless carbon fiber body panels that added thousands of dollars of cost to an already money-losing product.
I'll take a Model 3 with a metal roof and a real hatchback, please.
Otherwise, there's always the Chevy Bolt.