What is a supercar without its laugh-accompanied price tag? Well, price matters for more people than you would think. No, we don't mean these people are worried about getting a good deal, we mean that they want the car that costs more, because why not.
There are people who can afford everything in their dreams plus a million, and if you had the means, you would probably spend that money on ridiculous things too. For example, the Mercedes Maybach S650 would seem like the best luxury sedan for a 0.1-percenter with its $200,000 price tag, but why would you get that cheap bucket of a Maybach when you could get the $1 Million Aston Martin Rapide with a V12?
The point is, the people who buy ultra-expensive supercars and luxury yachts don't really have to worry about how much it costs them or how much it takes to make an item, as long as they can have it. But if we took a closer look at the supercar industry, we could understand the reasoning behind these crazy 6 and 7-figure prices. Today, we look at one of the best performers in the segment, the Lamborghini Huracan.
Estimating The Interior Costs
Companies like Bentley are famous for their outrageous amount of cows used to cover the interior in leather, but a brand like Lamborghini is much different. As they are a more performance-driven brand, their interiors are made for lightweight and function.
No company willingly releases their production margins so we are going off estimations here, and Lamborghini especially would not disclose information like that. However, it is estimated that most supercar companies spend more than half of the cars price tag on engineering, development, and testing. So the raw materials bill is probably less than you would think.
If we take a base price of around $260,000 for a Huracan EVO, then we can predict that around 65% of that cost is going to the labor of designing, building, and testing a customer's car. That leaves us with around 35% or $100,000 of the cost left over for materials like the carbon fiber panels, metal engraved interior switches, leather, and alcantara. So an estimation for the interior alone would be probably around $50,000 give or take.
Although, that is assuming that the cost to make the car is the exact same as the price tag, which it almost never is. In order to support all the people who worked on the car and the company itself, they have to make money on their cars. So, if the cost to make an Huracan is $260,000, and the cost of production is 90% of that price. Then after all the deductions of our previous calculations, we can estimate an even lower cost for the high-quality interior costs - maybe around $40,000.
Again, the actual costs of these interiors could be wildly different, but that is our best guess from the information that we have about high-end vehicle production. If Lamborghini, in fact, did release their production margins then we would probably be shocked at how much a few hours of testing costs, and we wouldn't even bat an eye at measly interior costs.