White interior available for AWD /nonP

[Glamisduner]

Didn't they remove alcantara from the black interior? Why would they all of a sudden add it to the white?

Because your paying $1500 more, yet will still have the same cheap headliner?

 

[EricUSC]

Didn't they remove alcantara from the black interior? Why would they all of a sudden add it to the white?

I believe Alcantara headliner has been gone from the Model 3 since January, and the white interiors of the test drive fleet don't have Alcantara headliner either. There is currently an Alcantara shortage: https://jalopnik.com/theres-an-alcantara-shortage-so-i-guess-we-have-to-star-1825114281

 

[alseTrick]

Odds are that it doesn't cost more. At all. It doesn't have to for Tesla to charge more. If that's a problem, then think of it as a penalty for opting for that other interior that's complicating assembly further.

It's a money grab.

As you said, I'm sure it's a minimal cost difference versus the black, and considering that white was the first vegan color they offered, they should have optimized its cost of manufacturing the white material by now. There shouldn't be much cost to "start up" a new line for making the white seats, as the white seats are going to cut into the quantity of black seats ordered. They'd mainly be repurposing "black seat" manufacturing to "white seat" manufacturing.

It's such a minor "complication" to general assembly that I feel it's silly to even mention. Instead of lining up a bunch of black seats to be installed on a batch of cars, they'd line up a bunch of white seats. How complicated is that?

 

[alseTrick]

Because your paying $1500 more, yet will still have the same cheap headliner?

Yes, that's a very Tesla thing to do.

They are literally charging customers the same price for the premium package - even after removing some of the alcantara - that they were charging when they still included the additional alcantara.

 

[ℬête Noire]

I agree it probably won't be an issue.

here is the Chevy Bolt's White Dash and the reflection problem. The area it covers is much larger.

We just don't see the issue, or haven't noticed it at least? *shrug* We also have our sides tinted at 50%, probably helps. Also everything is bright here, maybe? From looking at it that's what happening, they notice it when they are looking into a dark area. Then it gets contrasted with a photo of the black dash looking into a bright daylight and I just roll my eyes.

 

[Chris Fox]

Good luck, reading other stories here this does not happen often if at all. Call Tesla, maybe if there is identical built that somebody wanted where you live, who knows?

The guy accepted black interior. The vehicle is days away from being delivered. He should live up to his agreement.

 

[Chris Fox]

I wonder how many pending performance Model 3 orders are going to convert to standard dual motor AWD because of this...

I ordered a Tesla Performance with white interior. I'm keeping it

 

[Chris Fox]

I can say with confidence that is probably not happening any time soon. They’ll ship internationally before that happens. Every move they’re making is to maximize profits. No way the non PUP model will cost $5k less to build.

Yes, and thank god for that. I want Tesla to survive and their survival depends on maximizing profits.

 

[rluciano]

I ordered a Tesla Performance with white interior. I'm keeping it

I also ordered a P3 partially to get the white interior. I waffled when I saw this. But I don’t want to delay my order.

 

[Snow Drift]

Didn't they remove alcantara from the black interior? Why would they all of a sudden add it to the white?

Door cards are still alcantara, just the headliner changed.

 

[jsrawa]

Anyone have some good pics of the white interior on the 3? All I can find are the stock photos and some bad reddit photos. I'd like to have some better photos to help me decide before my edit button disappears!

 

[UnitaryExecutive]

Anyone have some good pics of the white interior on the 3? All I can find are the stock photos and some bad reddit photos. I'd like to have some better photos to help me decide before my edit button disappears!

Here's a 4k video

Here's one for black interior

Here are Motortrend's high res photos https://www.motortrend.com/cars/tes...tesla-model-3-dual-motor-performance-review/#

 

[UnitaryExecutive]

FWIW, I think the black interior looks better on the red from outside the car but the feeling you get inside the car is unbelievable with the white interior (we have it on the X).

 

[wbhokie]

Anyone have some good pics of the white interior on the 3? All I can find are the stock photos and some bad reddit photos. I'd like to have some better photos to help me decide before my edit button disappears!

 

[wbhokie]

FYI - This is always a great place to look for some quality model 3 photos

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=aXphVjlKZ2hlOXVtMjlFbGRjTU5YdzgzQWh5bWNR

 

[corlaandstan]

I am tempted to switch my AWD to white but I'm just not sold on the dash. I honestly like the wood grain on the black dash.

I'm guessing there will be a way ( with $ ? ) to swap out the white for the wood. Since a lot of people have that ?
one of us can ask when they call about other questions. May as well ask, no?

 

[UnitaryExecutive]

Some of those high res pics show white stitching on the door and center. For folks who have sat in it - is the stitching white?

 

[dragonxt]

White interior RWD in another 3 weeks?