Markup will never go away.. When you deal with International Logistics issues, money is something of importance.. thus resulting in the markup.. I forsee a bunch of old technology to start costing less though over the next few years.. Or maybe I just dont know what I'm talkin about..

Gotti

 

I've seen other posts about the defective back cover. Maybe there's a problem with mine. It stays on if I don't touch it, but if I recline and the put the back seats forward again, it falls off again no matter how careful I try to do it.

I guess I'll go to the dealer one of these days and complain.

 

^^ sounds like the clips are out of shape or something. Mine are actually pretty tough to pull off. Just have them compare yours to a new one to see if it is easier to remove.

 

maybe you could heat the clips up a little and bend them in so they clip tighter?

 

Building = cheap. Development is where the real money is spent. And since the motor in the tC is also in the 400k unit/year camry + the Rav + the tC, it's development costs are spread along a very large audience. Also, consider the length of time the motor has been in production for the high volume Camry.

How many SC's do you think a company that makes them would sell?

 

The Civic has been around longer than that. Anyways, what does the civic have to do with what he said?

 

Are you looking for CF or Woodgrain? either way PM CXT and he can help you out, i dont knw the pricing for the tc, only the boxs....... but i got my stuff done in CF, and we can get any color that you want.

 

Introduced in July of '72 to be exact. Just had to put in my .02

 

^^ Yep, my mom had one of the old CVCC civics back in the day It was actually a completely unreliable pos, but she still had one

 

im surprised no one has made a knockoff rs1.0 grill. everyone wants one and no one wnats to shell out toyota's price on it.

 

I can do those woodgrains.

 

Since I work in the plastics industry and have an engineering degree in manufacturing, I can shed some light on this subject.

First off, you need an engineer to design the mold. That alone isn't cheap. Then you need to send the prints to a mold shop to make the mold. Molds for injection molding are definately not cheap (we are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars here for a single/dual cavity mold).... and that's just for the body (not including any lense inserts, or outer lenses (the red part on OEM tC tails).

Then there is material cost, which isn't too bad... but then again, you need to have a market to sell the stuff to. And generally, a company won't go through the hassle of the above mentioned process unless they a.) have enough people up front to cover most, if not all, the setup/tooling design/mold making/etc costs, and b.) they are obviously out there to make a profit, so that needs to be figured in as well.

I think that with time, companies will develop aftermarket tails for our cars (there is already a headlamp housing available). I just hope that they aren't gawdy or made by APC...