To me it is varying levels of what is subjectively 'acceptable' when purchasing a car and this goes hand in hand with the type of car you are buying. The marque and its history you are buying in to gives leeway with certain issues; after all, no car is perfect.
Personally speaking I find paying several hundred quid for a DAB radio on an 80k mass-produced car to be unacceptable, yet that is what Jaguar ask you to do with the F-Type. I take more umbrage with feeling fleeced than most anything else...
The DAB is an option with Jaguar, maybe we should suggest they add 'Morgan style leaking roof' NCO and see how many people select it
It's an option when it shouldn't be, they are fleecing customers who will be forced to select options for resale if nothing else. 'Oh sir, this is an essential option' - so essential you're charging me for it.
And seeing as the car isn't production ready there's no way of knowing if it will be utterly watertight. I await the inevitable electrical architecture failure. Given how heavy it is I imagine there is more cabling than an electrical substation, much of which will be poorly placed in time-honoured fashion.
Cynical, me?
