You are correct, Sir. The ME33 was actually discontinued last year. As of April of last year my tire guy wasn't able to get his hands on a supply of remaining 33s and could not get the new Lasertecs. I was going to get one when I replaced my rear. I'm actually glad he didn't have them, I was ablr to get another 6500mi. out of the 33. I will be replacing it sometime in the near future though.