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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Also, the idea that the tooling is 'paid off' on old cars is BS to me. Development costs and tooling are one time deals. You pay for it before you start building, with money you made from selling other cars. Not by transferring any and all profits from a new car sold into the 'tooling debt' for each individual model, until such time as the tooling is paid for and then you get to pocket the money as profit. I mean, does that not sound insane if you are a century old automaker that has to buy multiple sets of tooling each and every year and have a revenue of many, many, billions of dollars to do it with?
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If you think that they don't take development, tooling and build costs into consideration when considering if a model is profitable and successful, you're just wrong.