[jerlam]

Tesla is an outlier in that the car is designed only with a glass roof. It's not a hole in the existing roof panel like other cars. The lower trim Tesla Y bizarrely has a glass roof that's covered on the inside with a headliner.

[BeetleB]

> Tesla is an outlier in that the car is designed only with a glass roof. It's not a hole in the existing roof panel like other cars.

Lots of cars have followed Tesla's lead: Ioniq 5, Mach E, etc.

I'm claiming that Tesla is an outlier in that they're not giving a choice. With the Ioniq 5 and Mach E, you can choose whether you want the glass roof or not.

[stasomatic]

You can't in the Ioniq 5 (US). You have to give up many useful features if you do not want the roof because the roof is part of the Limited trim. Luckily, I like the roof.

[redwall_hp]

Everyone with Teslas around where I am recently discovered that this is super inconvenient when a nasty hail storm happens. I mean, all of our cars got totaled anyway, but they had the added insult of no longer having a roof and needing to tarp more of the car until insurance could do their thing.

With the cost of the bespoke glass, damage to it basically means the car is guaranteed to be totaled even in a less extreme scenario.