New R4 Car - Think Tank

[Rally Power]

R4 kit PDF
http://www.akis.is/wp-content/upload...ette_R4_EN.pdf

Just took a quick look; apparently the kit costs €108.000 (without taxes) and doesn’t include several components (dampers, cockpit items, exhaust, radiator, chassis panels, electrical system and many other necessary parts) that are sold as “options”. To those the costumer also has to add the donor car cost, the kit installation work hours and other administrative expenses.

It doesn’t seem hard to imagine that the 108K value is a joke and a ready to rally R4 will probably cost close (over?) to 200K. It’s also a mystery how will Oreca manage to satisfy a potential worldwide demand, supplying in time enough kits to costumers.

The R4 is needed and the use of a kit is a smart option, but to have a single supplier seems to be a recipe to disaster.