Quote Originally Posted by niky View Post
The cost of development can be within just one or two hundred million, if you exclude the cost of tooling for manufacturing. As long as you sell it only to the ASEAN market and don't need to meet ridiculous CO2 and HCO emissions targets.

Buying an engine and upgrading it is possible. We could also purchase technology for things like cam-phasing from suppkiers like Delphi and fuel injection from Bosch or VM Motori, like many small manufacturers do.

Without punitive tarriffs, what we can do is provide big subsidies to locally owned and developed car manufacturers. Such a company would have to start with motorcycles... So it will have the production volume to support an R&D an engineering department.

Nobody will want to risk it, though.



Rally Fighter works because there's a large community and some of them have money. How many buyers could you find here for a space frame toy that costs over two million pesos before sales tax?
Why build something that isn't compliant and future proofed? If we want to get something done we need to use what has been learned by the industry and begin leap frogging the standard state of the industry. Only with something significantly disruptive can we differentiate products well enough to get anything worthwhile in a very crowded market place.

We have to skip this "puwede na" mentality especially when it works against environmental regulations and general efficiency.

Remember the flight of the kuligligs in Manila? Be thankful there was enough political will to see that such things come to a swift end.

Personally, if we have to develop something, let's do it well, no matter for whatever market segment it will serve.