[ds968]

I can't imagine anything but a customized program synched with a Porsche parts database that could come up with the answer to this, but I wonder if you add the cost ( using the dealer selling price as a basis ) of every single component that makes up our car, purchased one by one, what the total cost might be.. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/blink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> ?



Was listening to a local news blurb which said the selling price of parts making up an entire car

( was a new Chevy I think ) would easily surpass $ 10 million. Ok, I could understand $ 1 mil. but $ 10 ?! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> So would our 968 given the price of Porsche parts be double or triple that figure ? <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/huh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



Clearly nothing else to think about this long Holiday weekend, so just pondering about nonsense stuff.. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/tongue.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Cloud9...68]

I remember someone did this years ago on a Chevy or some other GM car, and I think the total came to about 3X the selling price of the car, which isn't really all that shocking. I'm sure it would be MUCH higher for a 968.

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[ds968]

Only 3 x the selling price of the car would be very reasonable but it's possible they might have been referring to the separate cost of "integrated" components of the car - e.g , buying the engine as one unit, the entire transmission, the total body shell , etc.. However, I would think if you take everything from a bolt, to a relay, to a piston, or a rod, or a gasket, to a maf, to a hose , a manifold, to any given separate body panel, a muffler, to a glove compartment cover, the dashboard, to a vent knob, a carpet fastner, essentially every single replacement item which can be purchased individually ( which is what these guys were talking about ) and then add all of them at the dealer listed price , $ 1 mil or more seems pretty easily attainable, IMO. Still not sure about the $ 10 mil figure, but maybe with a Porsche or a Ferrari, or a BMW, Rolls, and so forth that's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. Silly concept of course because it has no relevance in reality, but just a point of interest <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/mellow.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[tamathumper]

$10 million seems like the part cost and the labor to install it.

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[flash]

having replaced quite a bit of the car, and hit over $100k, i can see it easily going to $250k

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[Darryl]

In that case, I'm willing to let my parts car go, which is still mostly intact, to the first one who sends me 50K! C'mon, that's less than half price! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/tongue.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



- Darryl

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[flash]

lol - had i have known i was going to get in this deep, i would have gone with a 360 or a 355 instead

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[ds968]

" lol - had i have known i was going to get in this deep, i would have gone with a 360 or a 355 instead "



yeah, but you probably would have put an additional 200k into the 355, and then your post on 355Forums.com <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> would read: - " had i known i was going to get in this deep, i would have gone with a XYZ ( insert next level up car here )



and then soon enough your post on XYZForums .com would read.... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[flash]

seriously considering XYZ these days

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[tamathumper]

It's been a good recession...

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