Yeah but the whole seatgate idea seems to make more sense now. The Model X seems to in many ways to be a minivan with easy access for 7 adults. Special doors to ease that access and sliding seats to make it very easy to enter and exit even the third row. So far so good and most would call that a minivan. Except the minivan is not a $100 000 vehicle and "noone" wants to be seen driving a minivan, especially males I suppose but that might not be that significant.
Now here comes the SUV styling. Raise the ground clearance, make those stylish falcon wing doors which surely are not minivan doors and add a towing package. Not a heavy duty towing package but like other luxuery SUVs like the Q7. Add crazy performance and you get a vehicle that the female wants for the minivan utility, but that gives off a sporty image and the man (or woman) wants due to the performance. Not that I necissarily believe all the stereotypes but they are used in marketing.
In the US this means many will keep their old beater SUV or pickup or buy a trailer. For Norway people usually don't have two cars but we have like a million trailers (actually looking at the data there are 1.2 million trailers and 2.5mill personal vehicles for a population of 5 mill.).
So the question is of course if they did hit this hybrid look/function with the X?
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