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Originally Posted by super51fan
It is still more about the amount of the increase and just about an increase. We are talking about sheet metal, not a full redesign with an entirely new platform. Considering that everything for this cars already exists in the Kaminokawa plant and has paid for itself over the many years the FM platform has been used, I do not see where the additional $10k is coming from.
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It's not just sheet metal and bolting it all together.
From a quick search (article from 2010)-
https://www.autoblog.com/2010/07/27/...201%20billion.
"The price tag to develop a new vehicle starts around $ 1 billion. According to John Wolkonowicz, Senior Auto Analyst for North America at IHS Global, "It can be as much as $6 billion if it's an all-new car on all-new platform with an all-new engine and an all-new transmission and nothing carrying over from the old model."
Considering this was a decade ago price has gone up. You don't spend a billion hoping to just get paid back. They sold about 72k 370z's in the U.S. over the last 11 years, not sure about world wide numbers but each car is helping pay part of the billion (one thousand million).