Bugatti planning a four-door ultra-luxury sedan with 950 hp . . .

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05-18-06 | 12:45 PM

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Richie

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Originally Posted by LexArazzo

autovisiie - some help from Richie ?

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Where do you need my help??

05-18-06 | 01:47 PM

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Hameed

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Originally Posted by XeroK00L

I don't see what's so wrong about producing a mechanically similar Bugatti sedan when they already spent tons of development money and time on the coupe. This will only lower the overall cost for VAG, not raise it. Sure the idea of developing the Veyron 16.4 coupe was financially stupid for VAG in the first place, but since it's already done and out the door, they might as well reap what they sowed as fully as possible.

They can never reap anything here - how many do you think they will make? They are losing money even selling the Veryron at $1 Mill. This is a limited production car, they will not make any money here.

05-18-06 | 02:14 PM

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XeroK00L

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Originally Posted by Hameed

Yes they can reap a narrowed loss. They lose money on each car only because they do not and can not produce it like a mainstream volume car, or the exclusivity will be lost. The production of the car has to be limited. So to work around this, they are producing the same car in different body, and BAM they have double the sales volume and hence a smaller loss. Makes sense to you now?