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It reflects the continual lowering of manufacturing costs compared to design costs. When we're talking about heated seats there's maybe $2 worth of a resistor
by treis 4y ago
It reflects the continual lowering of manufacturing costs compared to design costs. When we're talking about heated seats there's maybe $2 worth of a resistor + wiring to heat them. At some point it's cheaper to make them all heated and reduce your SKUs & design cost.
In the long run customers aren't going to pay more. The auto industry is highly competitive and that competition will keep profit margins in check.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoWe're going to come full circle. In the olden days they used common parts because the manufacturing and the tracking of the parts in your inventory system was expensive. Now we're gonna push to reduce part counts because the cost of the engineer and the amortized cost of corporate process in which he works are expensive.