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Originally Posted by andy
I think the main thing the industry needs to address in the hounesty of the manufacturers. Mark makes a very good point, how many manufacturers sell their fully built cars for the cost they claim you can build a car plus labour they claim to build it?
e.g. 'kit £5k, on the road from £8k' BUT fully built from £16k????
This is hardly going to give credability to the industry and also people then pass the more hounest manufacturers as they appear too expensive.
Maybe a web site should be started that polls how much people have actually spent on building their kits along with a brief outline of how they did it i.e. if they made loads of bits themselves to keep cost down.
False promises and comming up with reams of (feable at best, lies at worst) excuses for not delivering on them needs to also be addressed.
Sorry I'm resisting the urge to rant and give examples at the moment.
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This is a bugbear of mine and exactly why I created the Build cost estimator;
http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitc..._estimator.php
A basic build cost calculator but I'd like to think fairly accurate for an 'average build'
On your point about a site which polls how much a car DID actually cost to build Madabout has always had that facility and can be found from within the details page for any kit car listed.
This is a typical example
http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitc..._table.php?114
Anyone who has built a kit car and is willing to give the figures can add their voice.
Cheers, John