On one hand, I'm glad to hear him say it because I've been suspecting that this was a revised version of the S550, but haven't seen anyone say it explicitly (maybe I missed something earlier). But I'm surprised how harsh he is on the tactic.
Nissan did the same thing with the new Z and people mostly seem to think it was a smart move that kept a cool car alive when it wouldn't have made financial sense to engineer a new ground-up new model.
Nissan did the same thing with the new Z and people mostly seem to think it was a smart move that kept a cool car alive when it wouldn't have made financial sense to engineer a new ground-up new model.