Little confused by this. .. "going from IS ... now that .. adjusted back to something like a FX?"

I have been resisting the urge to go drive this.... $68K? I think infiniti outdid themselves a bit, again.

FX50 is a beast, but its retardedly priced.  $58k to start for the FX50 and upwards of $66k loaded?   I just don't get that kind of pricing for it.  I do feel it'd sell a LOT better at $6-10k less.

Agreed. I think Infiniti majorly screwed up by making the "S" package available to the 50 only. That doesn't really make sense. I thought Infiniti had learned from their previous mistakes, but I guess not. The first generation FX  (04?) (which I had) suffered from Infiniti building entirely too many LOADED FX45's (Sport, Tech, Rear-DVD, etc).. I think optioned out it was a scale-tipping $58K due to about $8K in options alone. At the beginning of the '05 MY they had loads of FX45's literally sitting on lots. A dealer in California (i think) that I don't remember started "blowing out" their FX45's at a flat $10K off MSRP. They ran out. I found a dealer in Florida and asked them to match the offer - I got mine for a flat $10K off MSRP, with something like 100 miles on it. It was a YEAR old and had been sitting on the lot for that long.. (and they had to replace the tires due to flat-spots) thought infiniti would have learned from that.

SRT intake hasn't come off yet. Has gone to arbitration, though!

Nope. I offered to have it sent back to them at their expense per (bank)'s requirement. They declined the offer, so it went into arbitratoin.