[troskap]

Well, I guess it's one of those marketing ploys that they seem to do a lot in this country. You issue the base model of the car, get all the suckers, er, customers that would buy the car for the name or current capability now. Then you wait a bit, then let out the bigger, better, nastier, meaner version to persuade those who needed the kick in the pants to go out and now buy the car....

Yes, it's stupid, but it seems that's the way it works, at least around here in the US....