Expensive bikes generally don't have pedals new because they assume you know specifically what pedals you're gonna use. Not worth it to put expensive ones on it if you'll immediately swap it out, and cheap ones will also be swapped out because they're cheap so it's just making the buyer take them off.
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probably has a carbon frame and probably goes quite fast
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brand name. Cervélo is a fancy-pants brand and doesn't mass produce on a scale similar to other manufacturers
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expensive bikes like this are designed to sell to dentists who have a lot of money and have devoted themselves to cycling events. Dentists will be willing to pay more money if the bike is expensive and seems fancy
I'm pretty sure I know a dentist who named their kid axel or something bike related like that.
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A new car is $30-50k but a Formula 1 race car costs like ten million dollars. People ride Cervélo bikes in the Tour de France, Olympics, etc.
to add to what axont said
- You pay increasingly more money to lose increasingly less weight and this weighs 7,5kg
- the tolerances to allow the wheels to be this close to the frame for aerodynamic reasons can't be that easy, like 2mm off and you'll grind your frame away with your tyre
mostly dentists though
Well that's a Cervélo, which isn't a normal type of bike. It's for racing or stuff like that
Most manufacturers don't release a new model every year, but model lines do get updates and it's not terribly uncommon to just differentiate them by year
