Sako re-engineered the 595/695 rifles for "manufacturing economy" to develop the T3, if you recall the former rifles were quite a bit more expensive that the current rifle. (I had a 595 in .308 in carbine length, and it was good enough that a friend talked me out of it.)
I noticed when the T3 hit the market that the gunzine articles ignored why the rifle was developed, all the ink went to "new, new...".
jim
