Once, these sort of relatively minor cosmetic changes would/should have been introduced to the production line without fuss, under the heading of "continuous development" or similar. This is decidedly not a new model. All that they achieve by calling it such is to downgrade and devalue existing "pre-facelift" cars - to the annoyance of their existing customers, and particularly dealers sitting on unregistered/pre-registered "old" models. The price hike adds insult to injury (although perhaps intended to add separation between pre and post facelift). After all the trials and tribulations with the CX platform cars, I should have thought this was the last thing dealers needed.
