I didnt realize this was news... I checked out one last sunday at the dealer's

Thanks for the useful feedback!

Oh yeah... and the rims are NOT any more appealing in person.  They're pretty ugly actually.

well on the bright side... that wouldn't be a determining factor for me if I were considering the car, but on the other hand... the rims will also fit on a new GS or M if I were to get one of those.    Hopefully we'll have some insight as to how those two will look in the spring.

Wait, what are we welcoming?


I don't see anything to get excited over though.  Nothing here that isn't available anywhere else in the lineup and it doesn't turn the G37 into a rocket over the previous model.  So why spend the money to differentiate the car when it's only a mid-model refresh?

I dunno.


Well, you have to admit it's a tad unusual to drop in a different engine and tranny mid-stream like this ... most mfr's try to do stuff like this at model change time. And since it's a whole new drivetrain, you'd almost think they'd do something to differentiate it from the '08 ... after all, it will certainly change its trade-in value, etc., since I think most people would consider it superior to the outgoing model. At least give 'em some new tail lights or something.

I guess I don't see the need for a big hoopla because these are things that they've dragged their feet on doing rather than doing them when it should've been done in the first place.  Considering the way they're equipping the Euro models, the US models now seem rather lacking so I don't feel it's appropriate to make a big fuss over it when they're barely keeping up with their own models in other countries. Kind of like, hooray for being late to the party!

Besides, you're getting the engine, brakes and transmission, what more do you really want?  Everytime they start tweaking things like the body and other things, people start screaming.  Look at how you guys responded to the updates to the M. If something is good, go with it and don't bother wasting time on it until the full model update.

BTW Oz, Nov for a 2009 model is a late rollout.  Means they were doing everything they could to push out the 08 inventory before rolling out the 09.  The sales crunch as of late made that harder than usual I'd suspect.