"If Mauser had used the pre-1945 approach the entire project would have been too expensive, making it a complete impossibility in the first place. The P08 required machining steps that were superflous, overly complicated and in some aspects completely "
Vlim, having said that, is it really that differnt in production, because as Sieger said visually the difference is very little,which as you said, if I understood correctly made a lot of differnt in the cost of manufacture.
if the cost was not down by half, it is my opion that it was not worth the risk to change the model.
Alf.