The rep for my area was just at my place friday dropping off some equipment for me to demo and we had lunch together. Im suprised he never mentioned it to me.

The Alpine F1 Status CDA-7990 is handmade and limited to a few exclusive dealers, but it retails for $3,000 for the head unit only. You would still need the PXA-H900 to fully utilize the system, and that retails for $4,500 I think. I definitely think he would mention it to me since I have 2 of these systems in my personal cars.

The only thing I can think of that Alpine is producing in the $1,500 price range is the IVA-C800, but its not a limited production. The only thing I can think of that would possibly match what you heard is if they are going to reproduce the very popular CDA-7909 again, which was a classic in its time. I could understand that model being a limited production run, and the $1,500 price. People who saved them were asking $1,200 3 years ago and the unit then was already over 7 years old.