anticitizen13.7
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I'm pretty convinced that this is a mistake.
Occam's razor says that someone in the factory goofed and loaded a bunch of cloth headliners (intended for non-PUP cars which we were supposed to be building by now, and so there's probably a pile of them lying around the factory) into the line by accident.
There's no reason to believe that Tesla would be making such a significant design change this early, and if they were doing it to cut costs, they'd be cutting the alcantara off the sun visors too.
For what its worth, the cloth headliner looks like the same stuff that's in my 2014 S.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but non-PUP cars don’t have a glass roof, so the geometry of the non-PUP cloth headliner would necessarily be different than the PUP headliner. A mixup would therefore be impossible, as the non-PUP headliner would “sunshade” the glass roof!