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Old 01-20-2010, 03:54 AM   #40 (permalink)
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When you really think about it it has to be profitable for Mercedes to want to continue to sell it. It probably costs around $5-9K to make. Big markup for profitability.

And I said $16K because thats the price of the one we had reserved. Sickening, aint it.
I don't know. It seems like it has had a rather bleak financial history :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)
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In 2006, after dwindling sales, Smart GmbH was liquidated and its operations were absorbed within the Mercedes-Benz automobile group. Smart GmbH lost nearly 4 billion euros from 2003 to 2006.[4]
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