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Originally Posted by norberts
Why are they marking it up so much? Is it limited production?
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It's not really that limited, estimates are 6000 Type Rs in North America between both the 17 and 18 model years. It's such a niche car in the US (manual, FWD, hot hatch, polarizing styling) that it should end up having far more supply than demand in my opinion. It's the hype and the false demand the scum dealers are trying to portray. It's an exactly copy of the Focus RS launch where cars were selling for 50-60k initially, but now a bunch are sitting on dealer lots at MSRP.
Lots of people who idolized the Type R growing up up are at the age where we can actually afford 60k for one so many of those are willing to pay a significant premium for one of the first few batches of cars. Like I said in another thread, I can certainly afford it but it's against my principles to pay markups (especially 20k ADMs!).