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Old 10-11-2005, 02:21 AM
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Default Re: Honda Announces Pricing of 2006 Civic Hybrid

Materials costs are far from the only part of the cost of a car. There's the engineering effort and new tooling required, which can run into the hundreds of millions and must be shared among tens or hundreds of thousands of cars. There's also the law of supply and demand, which no business is going to ignore. If hybrids are in demand then automakers are not going to sell them at cost, without profit!
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