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it only cost them $50 per vehicle?!?
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I was a little surprised at that too.
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it only cost them $50 per vehicle?!?
$50 per vehicle to move the ignition switch ... times how many ever thousands of these things they made ... seems like a pretty big investment to me. Not sure what you mean by "only" ... unless you thought the article said it was $50 for all the changes ...
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$50 per vehicle to move the ignition switch ... times how many ever thousands of these things they made ... seems like a pretty big investment to me.


Thousands? Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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i understand that it cost them more than $50 bucks all together but they plan to build a certain amount of vehicles and for hardly and R&D cost it's all profit for them
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