Tegger wrote:
> 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.

Even at $1,500, the incremental cost of $500 is a big deal. (Thanks for
looking it up, BTW)