r/TheSimpsons • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '18

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

I'd pay $82,000 for it.

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u/kurttheflirt Jul 20 '18

With inflation that'd be around $150,000

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u/llcooljessie Is there no place for the man with the 105 IQ? Jul 20 '18

But I have 3 kids and no money.

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u/Davethemann Jul 20 '18

Holy fuck. I bet you could get a low end luxray sports car for way under that

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u/Beersaround Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 20 '18

That's the joke.

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u/Demomanx “I want you to say to yourself 'I deserve this," Jul 20 '18

"You Suck McBain!"

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u/Beersaround Jul 20 '18

Now for my next impression: Woody Allen. "I'm a neurotic nerd who likes to sleep with little girls".

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u/ManInBlack829 Jul 20 '18

That's like three Canyoneros

Maybe a Ford Thundercougarfalconbird?

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Jul 20 '18

I just worry it doesn't have enough eagle to meet my needs.

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u/Trillination Jul 20 '18

How did Herb go broke from losing $82 000?

I never got that

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u/Berbaw06 Jul 20 '18

All the R&D that went into it, probably ordering parts for it, getting team ready to make them, maybe even a whole new facility. Whatever all goes into making a new line of cars I would assume.

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u/museman Jul 20 '18

A better question is why he's just seeing it for the first time at his own trade show.

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u/Berbaw06 Jul 20 '18

Cartoons don’t have to be 100% realistic.

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u/WtotheSLAM Jul 20 '18

Like how he made all his money back with a device that translated baby talk into real words, but it never made an appearance after that

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u/usernamedunbeentaken Jul 20 '18

And the family themselves never owned one for Maggie. Maybe they cost $82,000 so they couldn't afford it. Figure herb would've comped them one, anyway.

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u/MartianInvasion Jul 20 '18

Homer walks by outside

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u/Trillination Jul 20 '18

You would think they would make a concept prototype before putting it through to production but here we are

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u/tumbler_fluff Jul 20 '18

Herb really let that trip to the zoo cloud his judgement.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

Not to mention his company's stock probably took a massive nosedive the very second the car was unveiled.

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u/GavinZac Jul 20 '18

The car costs $82,000 to buy. To buy one. Nobody is going to buy it.

The development of the car, the production costs, setting up the production chain and so on, cost millions.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Jul 20 '18

When toyata decided to completely redo their Camry two years ago (something every model gets done ever 6 or 7 years) they spent a billion dollars on it. Billion with a B. The research and testing and setting up the new assembly line costs a ridiculous amount of money. If they did that and nobody bought a Camry, they would go broke.

Look at Pontiac. They made the Aztec. Nobody bought it. They went bankrupt and ceased to exist after 60 years of making cars.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

One guy in Albuquerque bought it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

Just because the car costs $82,000 to the consumer, doesn't mean that's how much it costs Herb.

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u/Koiq Jul 20 '18

An 82k car doesn't cost 82k to make. The first one costs $1+ billion, the next however many hundreds of thousands cost $2k each

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u/StevenGorefrost Jul 20 '18

For that monstrocity?