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This is very common across many industries. It doesn't cost much more to manufacture a sports car vs a sedan, but the price is very different.

No product is based on the price of manufacture, it's based on the price people are willing to pay.



Let’s say it costs 5 billion to design a car (it goes as high as 6 billion) and another 2-3 billion to create all the molds and custom tooling and change over a factory. If you sell 10 million cars, that overhead costs $800 per car. If you sell only 1 million, that’s $8,000 per car. Some sports cars sell even fewer units than that. This is the biggest reason prices are higher.




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