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Originally Posted by JB M4
The big manufacturers already admitted that with the latest technologies robotics automation and efficiency that it's much cheaper to produce cars now than then...So inflation is just a few guys sitting round a table saying how much profit do we need out of this car and typing it into a computer...
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You're talking about operational and manufacturing efficiency. The cost of materials certainly hasn't become cheaper. They're subject to the economic laws of inflation as well, and that manifests into the cost of the cars. It's not so much that it's "cheaper" to produce cars, they're just more efficient at producing them - so indirectly the manufacturing cost attributed to 1 unit is technically lower, provided you pump out enough volume, but that doesn't mean the car itself is cheaper.
You also have to consider all the technology being packed into cars today that wasn't there 15+ years ago. There's a cost associated with that as well.