I find the whole thing rather strange. I looked over the options to see what I would order today if I wanted something similar to what I have now, and with that package my price would go up. I like the liftgate, but I have to ask myself whether a power liftgate is worth as much as air suspension and a pano roof combined. I don't think so. I could get both of those and throw in the winter package for that price. I could live without a power liftgate, but it seems strange that my 2001 minivan had that and Homelink as standard equipment, and either I'd have to clip some remote controls to my crappy sun visors in a $100K car, or pay $5000 for a few buttons and a power liftgate. I currently have the power liftgate and the pano roof and I don't see where Tesla is getting its price from.
Frankly the idea of getting a luxury car that doesn't even have Homelink and won't give it to me for an extra $135 puts me off. The idea of getting the package puts me off even more. If I didn't already own the car and if I knew little about it, I could see this as a deal breaker. It's not so much the items themselves but the fact that things don't sit right for me to spend so much more to get the basics. They did the same sort of thing to me when I got my car by leaving off fog lamps, and then adding them at no extra cost a few days after I got my car. At least the lack of them doesn't affect my driving.
If I did get the car, I'd probably forego that package, add the winter and air, and get everything else I got the first time around. I'd save money and have a clip on my visor. And when people asked me why, after being surprised that such an expensive car lacks it, I'd tell them it was a $5000 option.
