One reason they may have discontinued them is they may not have worked.
I recall reading about the first MGA to arrive in California. The
distributor prepped the car and the salesman took the car for a run on the
freeway (you could actually drive quickly on them in the "old days") and
promptly cooked the engine. It was later determined that the cause was a
high pressure air dam which formed at the base of the windscreen essentially
blocking the oval hood top vents and stalling the air flow through the rad
and engine compartment. Not a problem in England in 1955 (where initial road
testing was done) when motorways were to a large extent, figments of
someone's imagination and sustained high speed driving near impossible.
(Which is why the TR2 was speed tested in Belgium)
It's possible that something similar happens with the GT6.
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