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What you're missing about the cost is that engineering cost is amortized. If you spend $10m on the engineering for the manual, and $100m on the engineering for
by adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
What you're missing about the cost is that engineering cost is amortized. If you spend $10m on the engineering for the manual, and $100m on the engineering for the automatic, the manual will be way more expensive if you only sell 10 of them.
- julianlam 4y agoI, too, can pull numbers out of thin air. But realistically, what additional work are we looking to have done to accommodate a manual gearbox over automatic? Very little I'd imagine.