Me and a few friends were having a discussion tonight about how much one of these £600,000 supercars actually cost build.

 

Not including all the research and development put into it, just the physical materials of the car...

 

We came to some very, very different figures, ranging between £30,000 and £200,000,

 

What do you guys think?

Its an impossible question. How far back do you go to estimate costs -

 

- Retail price of each part ? (eg. cost to purchase a Aluminum waterpump pulley from Mclaren as a customer)

 

- The cost Mclaren paid for a part from a manufacturing company ? (eg. the cost Mclaren paid for a waterpump pulley)

 

- how much manufacturer company spent in raw materials ? (eg. the cost of a block of aluminum)

 

- the cost in raw materials for a company to produce the final product material ? (eg. the cost of Bauxite, sodium hydroxide, Cryolite and carbon to produce Aluminum)

 

Bearing in mind that while mclaren will have manufactured some parts in-house, something lke 90% of parts would of been manufactured by external companies.

 

Every step there is more and more research and development labour along the way that is included in the price of the next step. A $1 part in raw materials, could end up at as a $10,000 part as a final product.

 

I think I may be taking the question to seriously :rofl: :slap:

Edited August 26, 200916 yr by Yowser

Legrath has summed it up well. Cost of manufacture of parts is where a large proportion of the overall cost is. Because these cars were made in such limited quantities, costs to manufactured moulds and tools to create the parts won't be absorbed in volume like they would on high volume mass produced vehicles.

it would have cost more than they sold it for thats the supercar was i heard the F40 was the only one to make a profit, this is what i watched on a program so dont know if true

They make money, lots of it.

it would have cost more than they sold it for thats the supercar was i heard the F40 was the only one to make a profit, this is what i watched on a program so dont know if true

 

whats the point in making them then?? they dont make them for the good of their health surley???

They will have made money, however I do know the Bugatti Veyron cost more to manufacture than it retailed at.

 

It was a design exercise