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The posting in quotes below is from "Murph" on Seventhgear. To put these prices into perspective, a Giles G-200 airplane kit is $44,000 (the Giles G-200 is a single-seater
American-made all-carbon-fiber airplane built for world-class aerobatic competition). The factory will deliver you a flight-ready G-200 for $120,000.
"murph
Member posted 04-03-2000 11:04 AM
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There's a difference between "parts" and a "kit".
The basic champ car chassis goes for about $600,000. A superspeedway "kit" (specialized wings, undertray, etc) does indeed run about $150,000.
Now, replacement parts cost less, about $15K is what I hear for a nose wing for example.
And yes, these prices do indeed include NRE costs. The production run is
so small that the costs absorbed pass on to the customers in a big way.
Considering Lola and Reynard are for-profit enterprises, it's not surprising. They don't "write off" any of their costs to advertising the way the engine manufacturers do. (For example, an engine lease for a season costs the teams about $2Million per car, but the engine manufacturer is burning about $8M-$10M per car, the difference is
written off as "promotion.")"
[Edited by Franklin on 6th June 2000 at 19:51]
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