> I've heard it said that it's more difficult to make a $10,000 car than it is to make a $1,000,000 car. It is, but probably for a different reason than you'd

> I've heard it said that it's more difficult to make a $10,000 car than it is to make a $1,000,000 car. It is, but probably for a different reason than you'd think. In automotive, the difficulty is not designing the car, but the facility to mass produce them. Elon found out the hard way. In his words: "it's trivial to design the machine, but it's hard to design the machine, that builds the machine". He is currently facing the same challenge with the production of the raptor engines for starship. A million dollar low volume "hand made" car can be build by a small team, with relatively few resources. Operating a factory that produces thousands of affordable cars per day takes tens of thousands of people through the entire supply chain.