Tony Harding > wrote in
:

> jim beam wrote:
>> Tony Harding wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>>> a lot of this "complication" is not that expensive. well, it is at
>>>> the consumer end, but not for the manufacturers. at their kind of
>>>> volume levels, a complete fuel injection package, with catalyst and
>>>> all sensors, is probably less than $500. that's not exactly a
>>>> significant burden on a vehicle retailing for over $15k.
>>>
>>> Guess again, Detroit's cost to produce an entire V8 engine was $150
>>> in the late 60's/early 70's (I'm remembering this from an old Car &
>>> Driver article), so $500 just for the FI system is decidedly non
>>> trivial.
>>
>> that might be a useful comparison if you used this century's money
>> values, not last.
>
> <ignoring the snark factor> Not too hard to adjust the dollars -
> suppose the $150 in 1970 dollars is $500 in 2008 dollars, it's still a
> very significant cost factor.
>



$150 1970 dollars is about $1,500 in today's money.

It has been estimated (forget where I read this; might have been Forbes)
that the cost of meeting the myriad regulations and mandates adds up to
many thousands of dollars per car.

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