The problem is the existence, and individual definitions of, "corner cases". It's impossible to design a car to fit every one of everyone's needs. So, the designers have to make tradeoffs based on what they've been given as the "use cases". And in cutting the target scope of cases out, corners ones get cut.
It would seem that ones like the need to tote "long cargo" like skis and lumber were among those cut, in order to preserve ones like "maximize total cargo space" and "make ingress/egress to rear seats easy".
I will say for me and my needs, that line of thinking worked. Unfortunately, for some others, it doesn't.
Further complicating matters is that Tesla, in order to maximize the interested consumers, let people assume their priorities could be met. But when the reality of sitting at the drawing board and prototypes came, they had to make the compromises, and didn't (and really still haven't) communicated the tradeoffs they had to make.
They have roughly 30k reservations, essentially sight unseen. Assuming the 30k are representative of the potential buyers of the MX, their goal is to make a design that appeals to the max among those. Have they done that? we'll see. But its impossible to keep everyone happy because physics and emotion.
E.g. Even if they relented and abandoned the wing doors, they would have lost some. Because the only way to ease access to the rear seats then is minivan-ish. And i guarantee you they would lose far more sales if they made sliding doors. They also probably factored in that some of those lost corner cases could be solved in other ways, i.e. a trailer.
It would seem that ones like the need to tote "long cargo" like skis and lumber were among those cut, in order to preserve ones like "maximize total cargo space" and "make ingress/egress to rear seats easy".
I will say for me and my needs, that line of thinking worked. Unfortunately, for some others, it doesn't.
Further complicating matters is that Tesla, in order to maximize the interested consumers, let people assume their priorities could be met. But when the reality of sitting at the drawing board and prototypes came, they had to make the compromises, and didn't (and really still haven't) communicated the tradeoffs they had to make.
They have roughly 30k reservations, essentially sight unseen. Assuming the 30k are representative of the potential buyers of the MX, their goal is to make a design that appeals to the max among those. Have they done that? we'll see. But its impossible to keep everyone happy because physics and emotion.
E.g. Even if they relented and abandoned the wing doors, they would have lost some. Because the only way to ease access to the rear seats then is minivan-ish. And i guarantee you they would lose far more sales if they made sliding doors. They also probably factored in that some of those lost corner cases could be solved in other ways, i.e. a trailer.
