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Old 02-05-2007, 01:04 PM
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Intresting facts about the P4/5

I did a search, but i had not seen this information or photos posted up anywhere. I learned a lot about the car i didnt know. Just thought i'd throw it out there to anyone intrested. Enjoy!


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Nice find..
 
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Each headlight costs more than a brand new F430! $500,000 for the set!

why?
 
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"The cost of the total cost of the car was $4,000,000."


So what was the cost of the total cost of the cost of the cost of the total cost of the cost of everything?


The supercharged AC was also pretty funny.
 

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what does he do for a living? (to be able to spend $4mil on a car)
 
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what does he do for a living? (to be able to spend $4mil on a car)
He sells spidermonkeys. Duh.

This part was funny as hell:

The tablet PC in the car is basically a computer from a F16 jet.
Uh.. no. F16's don't run windows.
 

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borrow a headlight and trade him back for F430 or 599
 
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Originally Posted by Car_Collector
Each headlight costs more than a brand new F430! $500,000 for the set!

why?
A factory that produces 4 boogers can only spread the production cost of the 4 green goblins making the 4 boogers expensive because they are all receiving a big part of production costs in their retail price.

A factory that produces 50,000 lightbulbs can spread the development costs across the 50,000 lightbulbs.
 
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A factory that produces 4 boogers can only spread the production cost of the 4 green goblins making the 4 boogers expensive because they are all receiving a big part of production costs in their retail price.
Regardless, there is no way in hell a chunk of formed carbon fiber, a HID projector lens, and a few 1 watt LED arrays cost anywhere near that figure to produce.

The author is obviously exaggerating, either intentionally or due to having been fed a line in jest and not knowing any better.
 
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Originally Posted by Simba
Regardless, there is no way in hell a chunk of formed carbon fiber, a HID projector lens, and a few 1 watt LED arrays cost anywhere near that figure to produce.

The author is obviously exaggerating, either intentionally or due to having been fed a line in jest and not knowing any better.
R&D.

Glickenhaus has posted the figure before (on fchat) about how much it costs for the lights and it was right around the price quoted by that author.
 
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Am I the only one who thinks it's ugly?
 
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Originally Posted by black430
R&D.
For a CF mold and some LEDs? He was either pulling everyone's leg, or has set the record for the most unabashed supplier ripoff in history.
 
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For a CF mold and some LEDs? He was either pulling everyone's leg, or has set the record for the most unabashed supplier ripoff in history.


That's what I think too.
 
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Originally Posted by Gramicci101
Am I the only one who thinks it's ugly?
No I don't take much liking to it either, but I'm sure Glikenhaus thinks it's the coolest thing on the planet...well at least he better!

And as far as the headlight pricing goes, I still don't understand how they can cost 1/8 of the total production cost. Even if there was a lot of R&D for it, think of how much went in to R&D for the whole car. It just doesn't make sense...
 

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Originally Posted by Gramicci101
Am I the only one who thinks it's ugly?
Nope... front end makes the car seem too "happy" to be a supercar... needs to look more aggressive.

back end looks okay, although I'm not feeling the parascope exhausts.
 


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