Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:44:24 +0100, Frank Dernie <frank.dernie@btinternet.com> wrote: > To put this in perspective a good quality road car production cost is > about $4000, a Champ car (Indy car) about $400,000 and a Formula 1 > (World Championship) car about $25,000,000. There is a considerable > technological difference but the main reasons for these vast difference > in costs are the quantity of units over which engineering and tooling > costs are amortised. $400,000 for a champ car!?! No freakin' way!! If that were the case there'd be a lot more owners and they never would have dumped all manufacturers to use only two. Being an engineer (and I am one too) in NO WAY gives you a sense of how much something costs. If you were a price-point marketing professional maybe... engineers never know this is why they are usually in the "early adopters" group of purchasers. Dave