The Clubsport R8 (the black one) with fitted options was just over AUD80K/USD56K and the 4WD was almost 70K/49K. You can buy a similar car with a detuned version of the Corvette motor for about AUD43K/USD30K, but the R8 is my sin - I'm perfectly prepared to go without a lot of other things for the weekend thrills I get from it.
Oh, 2 cars. But still, I didn't know those cost $50K.
The cost is the big disadvantage in such a small market - no economies of scale.
A perfect illustration of our market is the GTO: The UAW was about to put a stop to GM importing vehicles when GM had idle plant capacity in the US, until it found out that the most our little factories could produce was 18,000 cars - at that they laughed and said they didn't care about such a small import.
(18,000 being the excess over existing production for Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East).
Cheers Russell C.
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