Touring vs. Touring & Sport

jginnane

Yesbut!!!1!!

The purpose of a spoiler is to increase downforce, NOT to reduce drag. All car manufacturers that sell spoilers don't design them for increased downforce, BECAUSE that reduces mileage. And that affects the whole CAFE gas-mileage thing.

I would agree this spoiler is likely to give you a few extra feet of gas mileage, like the trailing edge on a Honda Insight or the new generation Prius. But you're not buying "sport" to go green, are you?

Yes.We.Can. (tm)

The reason is that you're comparing $3,000 ($2,666 invoice) to aftermarket purchases of these components. But what you fail to take into account is that the $3K is additional, not replacement cost.

If you get a car without Sport, you still get brakes. Rims. Tires. In fact, you get a whole car ... and then you can choose to customize, with the pieces you actually want. (Instead of looking like a good little corporate soldier, with your shiny Rays rims and Bridgestone summer treads.)

There's a lot of good reasons to buy the Sport package. The biggest might be that you want a few upgraded components, and are too lazy to find which are really best, and maybe your financing works out better when you've got OEM instead of aftermarket pieces.

I had the same sort of issues when I was looking closely at the Infiniti EX35, and many dealers were adding a roof rack, which turned it into a station wagon, instead of leaving alone, where it was a 2+2 fastback with vaguely Jaguar XKE-style classic lines. Fortunately for me, I couldn't get a simple 2WD on the East Coast (only AWD). I even went to Palm Beach FL to look at a used 2WD, but they wanted way too much for used. Finally said ... "Z" !!!

(How many people wound up on this forum because Infiniti dealers were too difficult to work with?)