It is costly fuel. Right?

Google for "annual auto production" and you'll see that BMW
plans to build 1.2 million cars this year, Honda has plants
in several countries, each build more than a million cars
yearly.
There are over 200 million cars and 50 million big trucks on
the road in the USA. They build cars by the millions. They
build airplanes in dozens, 500 airplanes is a boom year.



"John T" wrote in message
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| Not really. The reason autos are relatively cheap are
sheer numbers.
| There are 10 of millions if not 100s of millions of autos
on the road.
| Sheer numbers produced keeps the price "low". Probably
something like
| over a 100,000 new cars are produced each year (guessing),
while only a
| few thousand (at best, another guess) GA planes and
experiementals are
| built each year. Another example is engines. Auto engines
can be built
| and sold for a few thousand bucks because of the economies
of scale.
| Aviation engines, OTOH, cost about $25,000 and up new,
simply because so
| few are made compared to auto engines.
|
| All comes down to economy of scale.
|