P2 facelift opinion?
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The design should be seen as a transition. Essentially, Polestar doesn’t want to ‘scare the horse’ by making too radical a jump from radiator grill to blank nose. Elon Musk took a big risk eliminating a grill and lots of people criticised that move. After ten years it looks normal - well for a Tesla. The first automotives were transitioning from carriages with a driver up front in the cold and wet while the occupants were enclosed in a box behind. The first cars looked like this because people wouldn’t have bought them. Over time they transitioned into a fully enclosed box where the ‘driver’ was no longer the hired help. It’s a path towards something not the actual something so be patient. It looks like the ‘panel’ is becoming a ‘smart zone’ so watch for this coming as designs develop.
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It's not just the grille though - there's a new radar unit that probably isn't interchangeable.If the new and old front grille are easily removed and swapped over, I wonder if there will be a market for selling the nice old grille to MY24 owners that don't want the new grille
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Sadly I think you are right, and agree. I mean an automatic gearbox used to be standard and now is back. And ofcourse electric cars existed well before internal combustion engines. It is inevitable, and they all will change. But I'd rather they come up with a proper design opposed this halfway houses that just makes it look like a half way house.
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As I said (in more words than was probably necessary) it halfway to something. But then I embrace change, uncertainty and risk. All designers do. It’s not that we reject conformity it‘s more that we seek innovation and change (probably for the better but not always). Otherwise we would still be driving round in horse driven carriages, wouldn‘t we?
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I'm not a fan of the new grill but it wouldnt put me off buying one.
I was reading last night that there is a increase in charge capacity, bhp of the motors etc. Is any of this hardware-specific or will PS2 Gen 1 owners see any of this via software updates??
I was reading last night that there is a increase in charge capacity, bhp of the motors etc. Is any of this hardware-specific or will PS2 Gen 1 owners see any of this via software updates??
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Almost certainly different motors/batteries...
EXACTLY! Different colors seem more "right" with this design. I personally think the panel being black or the frame being black would look cool.
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Magnesium is the new ‘black’. Simple, bright colours tend to attract buyers who want to shout out about their purchase. Children tend to attracted by primary colours. Subtle colours tend denote a buyer who is comfortable in their own skin, more mature and is more reserved. Just sayin’
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Me too.I like both
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What tech improvements does this new grill provide? It’s not at all clear if this adds new capabilities, or maybe just has a better camera. What’s the functional benefit?
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Yes it is, because it's free, not because it's shouty
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Ha. Ha. Ha. I did. that too. Generally the engines were designed to operate using a wax thermostat which used to get jammed in the housing and fail. This was a way of heating the engine quickly and to keep it hot during the cold spells. 1963 in the UK was very cold and for a long period of time. We built igloos which lasted two months! It was the time we used cardboard tied to the front grill with string so the engine was not over cooled and ran more efficiently as a result. Oh, those were the days before preconditioning - scraping the ice of the windows in the freezing cold before going to work.
I remember building Igloos in 63 - had to go to the library to read up the method in a book; now it's on YouTube!
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It’s a tough design challenge to retrofit a new corporate face onto an existing model and I think this does a decent-enough job. I like that the sensors and camera look integrated and flush rather than bolted-on. And I think this will make a lot of sense alongside 3 and 4 as those vehicles start to hit.
aero
possibly allows more heating elements to keep the radar etc from freezing over
and aero
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It’s funny how people react to change they don’t want. When I worked as VPAA at Kanas City Art Institute the artists refused to use new titanium oxide white and insisted on using lead oxide white - because they had always used it and it was “really white”. Didn’t mind that it was poisonous.
When Kodak sent out a memo saying they were stopping making slide projectors, the same artists and liberal arts people went ‘bananas’. They decided that they would buy up as many Kodak projectors as possible and spend the next century cannibalising them instead of moving to digital projectors. Change threatens what people know and love in strange ways.
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I like the new font, mostly because it will help prevent as much road dust from getting in. I might upgrade mine if it is possible.
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I'd prefer road dust over stone chips
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