BMW big mouth grilles are so hideous in the new cars, I hope they won’t use this design in all their cars. However, I think it’s still better than any Lexus.
No seriously, why a freaking Hyundai for premium Apple products. A Ferrari might be overkill, but makes more sense than Hyundai. Maybe Audi, BMW, or Merc makes more sense.Usually when you joke, you use aor
I would think it would be so that more people would be able to buy the car. Maybe Apple will offer different model tiers with different auto makers.
That may be true, but perception is important for prestige. Apple sells prestige. Going with Hyundai would be a brave move.
The unwashed masses can't afford any other Apple products, so why would Apple aim their cars at them?I think people would especially if doing so helps make the car more affordable to the unwashed masses outside MR.
Volkswagen is too unreliableOther than Tesla, I feel like Volkswagen might be a good fit for Apple to work with to make an Apple car.
Elon supposedly asked Apple at some point to at least invest and perhaps join forces, but I believe he didn't even get a response from the Cook ie Monster. Seems like an odd business decision by Apple but hey Tesla still has some major QC issues so maybe that's why Apple wasn't interested or maybe they just want to compete against Tesla. I mean Apple definitely has the bank to do so.
I guess the good thing is if they don't end up pairing up, which seems highly unlikely at this point, they should end up driving each other to make better vehicles and hopefully better prices for consumers to buy into electric vehicles as their daily drivers. But an Apple tesla colab would have made a lot people drool. Without actual data I'm just going to hazard a guess that Tesla has a high percentage of owner that loveproducts and vice versa.
How does any of those others make sense? I think Apple's chief requirement in a manufacturing partner will be quality and reliability. Neither Audi (what I dd), BMW, or Merc beat Hyundai in inital quality or dependability. Ferrari makes absolute no sense at all. They aren't overkill, they're inadequate. They're a boutique manufacturer that doesn't even have the infrastructure to contract manufacture Apple's mass market car. The fact they build unreliable cars is the icing on the cake. Audi(VW), BMW and Merc have manufacturing capacity. Would they be willing to contract with Apple at lower margins? That's the question. Hyundai could have probably absorbed lower margins because they're more vertically integrated than the others.* They even have Hyundai Steel plants in Georgia and Alabama... coincidentally where they also have Hyundai and Kia car manufacturing plants.
VW group is massive and has plants all over the world too. My VW was made in Mexico and has given me no trouble in the 5 years I've owned it from new.
I already stated in my comment that VW Group has the manufacturing capacity. Same for BMW and Merc. Not really sure why you're restating it. I also further clarified that those three would probably be less likely than Hyundai to agree to low margin contract manufacturing.
I guess you haven’t sat in a Hyundai recently.
Led to believe by whom? That’s the problem. Too often we are led to believe instead of finding out for ourselves.
Because you simply don’t have any idea what you are saying.
This is absolute baloney. Why post this garbage?
No premium brand will agree to become Apple’s OEM because that signals the end of the brand. Foxconn is not a premium brand and neither is TSMC. Samsung doesn’t manufacture Apple gear even though they could make some serious cash doing so. They do supply parts, but they don’t assemble Apple products.
