If they're building it for Japan/the UK/Ireland/Malta/India/South Africa/Australia/NZ/some other countries in the sphere of influence of the UK or Japan and also selling it everywhere else, it means they can route those controls up the center and not have to have a completely different control pod on either the right or the left. Of course, much of the rest of the dash is still different, and it only saves a few dollars per car, but multiply a few bucks times a million cars over the life of the model's production, and yer talkin' some real money, yessir.