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Why should costs for a coupe be significantly more than an open car?
We had over a decade with Group C/IMSA GTP coupes, are we saying it's more difficult/too expensive to make a coupe these days!
If it cost's $50k-$100k extra to design a coupe, even build each individual car, is that really significant?
How much more does an RS Spyder cost over a Lola, a Lola over the Pilbeam etc?
A number of custmers in GT racing have told how they chose an Aston or Ferrari over cheaper, equally competive, Saleens, Panoz etc.
The reason, they can attract greater sponsorship, and have a higher resale value.
If I was a prospective sponoser, all things being equal, I'd choose the coupe everytime. They recieve far, far more coverage from the media and fans, just look at the number of threads on this very forum.
It's no coincidence manufactuers like Bentley, Mercedes and Toyota went down the coupe route, even when regs were against them.
As for Epsillon not selling any cars, maybe that has more to do with them seemingly springing up out of nowhere. If they had a car up and running there would likely be a little more interest.
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