please also remember that most of the extra cost in this buggy is from the long development process and the prototyping for the last ten years. If it was a car that came to be within the last year, the design would not have been so clever. Then, since less money would be spent on R&D, they could put it into higher quality materials in the small places like bearings, drive pins, ball cups. But we wouldn't have a great layout and trick handling that we have with this car. They had to save some money somewhere to keep the cost down.
Quite frankly, I would like to see molded side pods instead of the (really nice) machined aluminum pieces. They could save a small bit of weight and put that cost savings into other areas that need it.
And as far as the good parts going bad (axles for instance) most of the time this comes from the manufacturing company the parts are being outsourced from. It only takes one dyslexic person to read a spec wrong to ruin a whole batch of parts. People make mistakes.
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