I understand the currency issues, but something is not quite right here. Upgrades are not going to be sitting on dealer shelves at the mercy of large swings if the dealer doesn't have to pay until it sells. Yet the UK->USA exchange rate they are using for a full price v6 is 2.55:1 (new G68's are almost an identical rate) yet is 2.9:1 for the upgrade. This represents an added margin of $1900 on the upgrade, and so maybe you can use this to talk your dealer down if they are the ones making this and not Meridian.

Let's bring on the full release, so we can at least hear it!

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