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by bastawhiz 704 days ago
The higher end cars like Charger are hugely profitable (some with six figures of margin). They sold nearly fifty thousand of them in 2023.
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I just priced a fully loaded Hellcat[1] Charger (even with stupid stuff like "real carbon fiber inserts" on the interior) on Dodges site, and it was $109 705. Unless you are proposing it costs less than $9.7k to build and transport one, how are they making six figures of margin?

1: "SRT® Hellcat Redeye Jailbreak" actually. I think the marketing department is staffed with 12 year olds.

If they’re trying to stay at product level, it possibly should be.
The SRT Demon starts at $96k and often sell for $225 and up
MSRP was $96k. Dealers would charge extra because... they forcefully injected and monopolized their position as being the only entity that can actually sell you the car.