Wow 100 grand I did not realize it was so much in such short time. Don
Don I have a 2013 G5 that I took delivery of Oct of 2013 and a good friend is taking delivery of his new G6 in April he ordered it Nov 2015… He configured his plane identical to mine The price difference is exactly $132,000 more than it was in 2013!
JH
It’s expensive to design and build a jet.
Gordon, I agree 100% and its good for resale for some!
Thanks Jeff and to your friend for supporting the jet program, My first cirrus an sr20. I picked up new Oct 2001, in Duluth was loaded with everything you could get. Delivery price was about 255 this included a premium for me getting early position from anther guy.
By the way anyone know what the fuel burn on new engine will be to get 155 I’m sure that is rich of peek. As I remember on my 20 was about 12 gal to get that speed. Don
How could this be? Is Cirrus paralleling the car manufacturing model which, with a much bigger market, still spaces models by a minimum of 7 years. Has the demand of single engine piston planes increased drastically warranting a new line every few years or is it an attempt to oversaturate the market bidding on a shift from other manufacturers?
As a Cirrus owner impressed by these unlimited " improvements" I genuinely ask " how shitty was my plane (built by you and advertised as the best thing in the world less than 10 years ago) THAT you had to improve it through 3 different generations in less than 10 years!
I am all with keeping up with innovation and technology WHEN it is absolutely justified. If people were falling out from the skies in the older generations planes by all means improve these early generation planes, but adding a wingtip variation, dropping a new Garmin and calling it a whole new generation, I think somebody’s trigger happy here.
Forgive my rant, I guess that battery took too long to be shipped and I desperately need to get back flying my old cirrus 
7 years between models perhaps, but probably two or even three facelifts in that period, and at least one of them will be fairly major for most auto brands. It’s hard to argue with the Cirrus playbook here, given their overwhelming market share success on new plane sales. Like it or not, many of their customers have been conditioned to expect more by the luxury car marques, and recognise that effort when they see it from a GA manufacturer.
I still don’t think that excuses them from launching G6 in P&P before COPA, but that horse has already been flogged in another thread. [:P]
I don’t know, Ziad… I think you are missing the boat.
If my job is to build the best general aviation plane, and a new highly efficient highly effective landing light comes out in year two, why would I wait for another three or four years to install the new landing light? If I want to make the best product, I should install that landing light as soon as it is available
I commend Cirrus for aggressively seeking out the best technology and latest developments, and constantly improving their products.
10 years ago, you purchased the best general aviation plane available on the market at that time. It is still a fabulous plane. But technology continue to march on, and I, for one, appreciate the fact that Cirrus keeps their products cutting edge
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Tom, I understand that part but that cutting edge light could have been an aftermarket upgrade that Cirrus offers to its lawful customers who have invested the equivalent of house loans in its products AS OPPOSED to renaming a whole new line every time they re-invent a new wingtip.
IMHO you are dropping the people that bought your product behind since when the time comes to sell ur G5 it’s already old news. Now you relying on the market common sense to know that the difference is not huge as opposed to relying on the company’s supporting and validating its own lines of service.
Again, I am in no position to judge their marketing strategy and I’m sure it is working for THEM, I am simply bringing it from our perspective, the previous customer ones.
God dang this battery cant get here in time :))
Just because they launch a new, face-lifted model to attract a new set of customers, it does not make your (or my) plane any worse. On the contrary, our airplanes become more valuable because of their direct relationship to this shiny new object on the flight line. In consumer electronics, Apple has set the stage with annual facelifts, sometimes more substantial than others. Lately, they have been focused on taking things away from you (think audio port, USB, mag connector), and still have no trouble attracting a whole set of new consumers.
I applaud Cirrus’s marketing genius. Now if only I could find $900K lying about for that shiny new SR22T G6! Cirrus should be a case study in marketing classrooms.
Overall I am disappointed in the G6, wing lights and a qwerty key board is great and all but I was definitely hoping for something a little more substantial.
Although on the 20 there is anew engine and new useful load thats pretty big. Don
Shyam,
I think someone from Ping Golf must work at Cirrus. I feel like I am falling behind the times by flying a G2 now that there is a G6, and still playing G15 irons with Ping now selling G30’s. There is marketing genius behind that.
Based on the advice from my investment advisor Dr. Seckler, I will stick to flying a G2 and splurge on new grips for my G15’s. They are both performing well…at the moment anyway [:D]
Marketing, Marketing, Marketing. They spent their money to announce this BIG announcement by sending me an overnight FEDEX letter telling me something big was coming. They out kicked their coverage. Nothing there makes me even want to trade my G5 for a G6.
I still have my Ping G15s. But I use them as a guest set now. Moved to TaylorMade, the marketing geniuses in golf.
Smart man Ed,
There is marketing genius if Cirrus can charge and collect orders for a G6 at $900,000+ when the same amount, or slightly more can buy you a far, far more capable airplane.
+100
Jeff, are you saying your friend ordered in Nov 2015, 17 months from order to delivery? thanks
Nov of 16. New Years always get me once or twice!