directly. You're negotiating with the wrong party if you want to nibble at 10K profits per car. A huge amount of that "profit" goes back into R&D. VAG has the highest R&D budget of any car company. In fact Ferdy gets into trouble with shareholders for doing that.

The car industry as a whole, makes 3% profit after R&D and over head. As a start-up business, it is not a wise choice. You need huge economies of scale.

Given the huge overhead, long term investment, R&D, warranty and and liability among many other costs, that 10K must vanish pretty fast.

Should those parts suppliers make less money ? Was VDO underpaid ( and thus not allocate sufficient talent ) for doing the fuel senders ? VAG goes outside the company to reduce overhead.

That 10K does not reflect upon the dealer to any great degree. There is no holdback. There is a quarterly bonus system to top dealers in the region. It sure does not come even close to 10K per car !

Alfas
One Milano
Two Milano
Three Milano,
Four,
then you need to add
a 164

06 A3 2.0T (gone, sniff, sniff)
00 Dakota R/T
98 F355
08 RS4 Cab


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