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aerohead · 11-10-2021, 04:30 PM

For the US market, the A-pillar slope may have to do with NHTSA rollover and roof-crush standards which have been toughened.
During testing of the Tesla Model S, they failed to get the car to roll, making roof strength issue kinda moot.

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