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Originally Posted by 300hpMR2
Guys and gals! With all due respect, get off his back. He is bringing new products to the community and you are bashing him? He isn't forcing you to buy them. Treat vendors this way and we'll be left with little to choose from. I imagine some of the price has to compensate for the low volume of sales expected. There aren't as many Lotuses as there are Honda Civics so there is no benefit of economies of scale.
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The Lotus market is very small, and most vendors in it seem to mix a healthy enthusiasm for the marque as well as a profit desire. Lotus probably has sold fewer than 500 supercharged Exige's in the US, and only a very small percentage will likely buy this product. He has to recoup his investment and development costs in a production run of probably less than 25 units. Nobody is going to get rich on this deal.