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It’s confusing. Cruise ships are way bigger and don’t cost that much more.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Cruise ships cost like 500 million though.
jl6 4y ago
I imagine there are many economies of scale in a cruise ship that you wouldn’t see here. Cabins that are all pretty much the same, with the same fittings and fixtures. Cruise ships are also highly derivative of previous cruise ship designs. This one is probably completely bespoke, and kitted out with gold-plated everything. Also, take Harmony of the Seas as an example. It’s about 3x longer (362m) and cost about 3x as much ($1.35bn). One could argue cost scales with volume more than length, but on the other hand, maybe this is telling us that it doesn’t.
geodel 4y ago
Yes same thing. A 50 passenger Charter bus is way bigger then Ferrari and in-fact usually cost less than a Ferrari
- dogma1138 4y ago
  A bus is around $500,000, a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model. You can get used busses for far less thab $500,000, and, if you are comparing new, well, its practically impossible to get a new Ferrarri, and the cost isn’t justthe nominal purchase price, its jumping through the hoops Ferrarri erects. (Yes, that’s worse for “limited production” models where they want you to own four Ferrarris to get on the list on top of everything else, but its true more generally, and Ferrarris total production would barely be a single limited production model for most automakers.)
    - dogma1138 4y ago
      You can get a used Ferrari for quite a low price too… it’s not particularly hard to get a new Ferrari either they make about 10,000 cars per year and their serial production cars don’t have that long of a waiting list since the majority of people who can afford one do not want a serially produced car or already own one. A Ferrari isn’t just an expensive car it’s a rather useless car so even the crowed who wants and can afford luxury like a 150-200K pimped out S- Class / Porsche / Land Rover / Jeep Grand Whatever Indian Tribe they are on now which they can still use as an every day/family car is not in the market for one. So believe it or not there isn’t a huge demand for Ferraris out there most people who can afford one already have one and they tend to go for highly sought off models and configurations rather than the normal production ones. As long as you live near a Ferrari dealership you probably can get one of their serially produced cars within a 4-8 weeks. Looking at the UK at least I can get a new Ferrari now pretty much instantly on the other hand a Porsche Taycan has a delivery time frame of nearly a year and a Merc EQS SUV has a waiting list of 70 weeks.

Cruise ships cost like 500 million though.

jl6 4y ago

I imagine there are many economies of scale in a cruise ship that you wouldn’t see here. Cabins that are all pretty much the same, with the same fittings and fixtures. Cruise ships are also highly derivative of previous cruise ship designs. This one is probably completely bespoke, and kitted out with gold-plated everything. Also, take Harmony of the Seas as an example. It’s about 3x longer (362m) and cost about 3x as much ($1.35bn). One could argue cost scales with volume more than length, but on the other hand, maybe this is telling us that it doesn’t.

geodel 4y ago

Yes same thing. A 50 passenger Charter bus is way bigger then Ferrari and in-fact usually cost less than a Ferrari

dogma1138 4y ago
A bus is around $500,000, a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model. You can get used busses for far less thab $500,000, and, if you are comparing new, well, its practically impossible to get a new Ferrarri, and the cost isn’t justthe nominal purchase price, its jumping through the hoops Ferrarri erects. (Yes, that’s worse for “limited production” models where they want you to own four Ferrarris to get on the list on top of everything else, but its true more generally, and Ferrarris total production would barely be a single limited production model for most automakers.)
  - dogma1138 4y ago
    You can get a used Ferrari for quite a low price too… it’s not particularly hard to get a new Ferrari either they make about 10,000 cars per year and their serial production cars don’t have that long of a waiting list since the majority of people who can afford one do not want a serially produced car or already own one. A Ferrari isn’t just an expensive car it’s a rather useless car so even the crowed who wants and can afford luxury like a 150-200K pimped out S- Class / Porsche / Land Rover / Jeep Grand Whatever Indian Tribe they are on now which they can still use as an every day/family car is not in the market for one. So believe it or not there isn’t a huge demand for Ferraris out there most people who can afford one already have one and they tend to go for highly sought off models and configurations rather than the normal production ones. As long as you live near a Ferrari dealership you probably can get one of their serially produced cars within a 4-8 weeks. Looking at the UK at least I can get a new Ferrari now pretty much instantly on the other hand a Porsche Taycan has a delivery time frame of nearly a year and a Merc EQS SUV has a waiting list of 70 weeks.