As the sales of the higher profit trucks, SUVs and luxury cars decline one
should be prepared to see the price of small cars escalate. Without those
more profitable vehicles to supplement the cost of building smaller cars, it
is inevitable.
It is hapening already, look at the comparably small price difference
between the Focus and the Fusion today as an example of what will happen.
As it is the Smart car actually cost more today than the larger more
powerful Focus. The T-car MSRB is nearly 20K more than a CV, yet the T-car
costs only a relive few thousand more to build
If you doubt that, think back to the day when the smaller 4cy FWD Chrysler
New Yorker cost more than the large V8 New Yorker it replaced.
> Complementing the three-door Verve concept shown at the 2007 Frankfurt
> motor show, the Verve five-door gives a good clue at what the next-
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