>To answer your question directly: no. Cost is prime I meant to the customer or owner, over the normal lifetime of the vehicle, not to corporate accountants th

>To answer your question directly: no. Cost is prime I meant to the customer or owner, over the normal lifetime of the vehicle, not to corporate accountants that translate pennies into millions of dollars. "More expensive" presumably is a small amount per car; the average new car in the US is over $40K.