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Imagine you're Volkswagen.

You've built the world's fastest car, something stupendously faster than the previous "world's fastest car". The motoring pundits say that not only is it the fastest car that's ever been made, but with the way the laws and public opinion are heading it will probably be the fastest car that will ever be made.

So, what do you do now? Break open the bubbly? Pat yourself on the back? Order the hookers and blow?

If you're in charge of Bugatti, the correct answer appears to be, "Add more power, and another 20mph to its top speed"

Champions. :/

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yeah and jack up the price like a mofo... $70000!!! thats like a r34 gtr or something...

If you have that money you do not buy a datsun...

Either way, these cars are costing VW some insane amount to build, as far as I was aware they are not making money out of these, as no one will buy a 5mill pound car... So they are loosing a LOT of dosh on them. They are absoultly insane.

[Either way, these cars are costing VW some insane amount to build, as far as I was aware they are not making money out of these, as no one will buy a 5mill pound car...

Correct on one hand, but I correct you on the other.....800,000 pounds to buy, 5 Million pounds to build!

[Either way, these cars are costing VW some insane amount to build, as far as I was aware they are not making money out of these, as no one will buy a 5mill pound car...

Correct on one hand, but I correct you on the other.....800,000 pounds to buy, 5 Million pounds to build!

So where was I wrong sorry? I never said how much they were to buy... I said no one would by a car that costs 5mill. Hence they are selling them at a loss.

i think you mean all the r&d cost them that much to build the prototype, and the car they sell would cost remarkably less.

they would infact be making a profit on the cars, although they may never recoup all their r&d costs, but most of the time car companies dont build cars like these to recoup costs, they do it to say, hey, look what we can do

There have been a number of cases where car co's have sold the car for less than cost to simply creat an image knowing that no one would pay the cost of the car much less with a profit being made on it. Evos a few years back were below cost from the dealer. Those big fast Jag things were sold cheap as chips for what they were. As a few examples.

The XJ220 is a little different. I'm not surprised that they had to cut the cost on them.

The prototype car that all the fat cats put their deposits down on was a 4WD V12. The production car was a twin turbo RWD V6.......

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