Strange car options

[ensignia]

Not really related to the thread, but saw a battered old '97 Passat estate in lowly 1.8 form with factory fitted xenon headlamps. Just thought it was a bit bizarre.

[MitchT]

Deadlift said:

M435i?

OK, 435i M Sport coupé to give it its correct name.

[Lagerlout]

xRIEx said:

Kenny Powers said:

Logistics.

Most people , understandably, have no idea what is involved in mass production. It costs money to give you the choice of badge deletion. It also costs money to provide an ashtray. Every nut washer and bolt on a car is accounted for.

Car manufacturers are in the business of making money.

What, even Lotus?

9/10.

[maurauth]

toohuge said:

Over here in the states, it makes sense.... so many cars are leased here that by grouping the options in packages it makes it a) much easier to produce on a large scale and b) upon retail, there are very few 'funny' spec'd cars.

MB is particularly bad at this though, we have a GLK and we wanted the rear view camera - not a huge ask. Although you need to spec premium package 1 (which includes a panoramic sunroof etc.) and media package which includes COMAND ... so all in all it was another 5 k!

Not sure about the PP1 requirement, but I'm guessing the correct loom for the camera comes as part of the all-in loom for what comes in that package.

You have to have comand because that's how the reversing camera is shown, without the command you have the smaller low-res screen and incompatible software.