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Originally Posted by mkoesel
If you look at my second post in this thread, I elaborated more.
The point is, it costs more to develop and produce two different things - especially complex things like engines - than it does one thing. Even small differences (including software differences - if in fact that's all it would be which, as I say, is speculative) add cost, so the more commonality, the easier it is to make the business case. You have to remember that there are probably no shortage of board members or shareholders who would have preferred to see the manual transmission disappear entirely. Why tempt fate by getting fancy and trying to diverge from the what's already being developed for the volume model?
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I agree. Huge costs are incurred with each component variation from standard. With this holding more power up top over the S55, I'm sure many are hoping for a software tweak for a safe extra 300 RPMs (if it's indeed confirmed it can go higher).