Tegger wrote:

> Tony Harding > wrote in
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>>jim beam wrote:
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>>>Tony Harding wrote:
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>><snip>
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>>>>>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.
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>><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.
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> $150 1970 dollars is about $1,500 in today's money.
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> 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.
>


Don't fret too much... They, (the guv'ment), still has not insisted
that onboard porta potties be provided for each vehicle manufactured.
After all, they do have thangs like airpressure checks etc.

How friggin' lazy have we gotten?

<grrrr>

JT