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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
What about a price per pound analysis? This is actually a pretty good way to understand how much it costs to build a car.
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On that basis a Morgan should cost less than an F350? There are valid reasons why that isn't the case, mainly involving a Morgan being rare, great fun to drive and an icon, and an F350 being the opposite in all cases.
No this should be priced on the full monty - the materials and each operation needed to turn that raw stuff into a finished product from start to finish.
From my limited time in engineering anything involving someone doing a skilled task (e.g. welding, cutting or bending metal) tended to cost more than the materials involved, which is why we all shipped our factories to China and whu iPhones aren't made in New Mexico.