If it were a problem, couldn't the MB engineers just deploy it sooner on the SRT

I think it likely had more to do with marketing a significantly different car to a significantly different buyer.

But then I'm a salesman by trade and my perspective is clearly slanted.

We could ask the "Creator" who could give us a better skinny on it that we could speculate.

Eric, What say you?

roadster with a stick

BTW, the article is wrong. It doesn't take five seconds. More like three.