Still Confused - Car Making Details and Wealth Details

[Ukir]

To follow up my other post and some comments you made.

Ill first mention that yes, i think most of us would consider a 50+HP engine pre 1910 in a car to be really top of the line/sports.
Perhaps even pre 1920 that's a lot of HP, im less familiar with Gearcity cars in that time frame.
Its probably also really inefficient as i suspect you would have to make a really heavy engine in a huge(and probably heavy) frame which would slow the vehicle down dramatically.

Onto my SC i promised.
Ive posted this SC from a 1906 Gearcity game just to demonstrate the cheap car concept.
Ive sold 40k units of this, entirely to London i think.
I have 3-4mil in cash, without really doing anything else other than selling it, so clearly its payed for its development.
Not any kind of record design, but well worth the investment.

There is a lot of potential gain in having a highly specialized vehicle with only a few good ratings and the rest terrible to reduce its cost to the lowest possible mark.

Hmm...I can't seem to sell anything more than 100 units a month, though. Even my cheapest car which was roughly 900$ sale price(it was like 350$ to make) only sold at most 150~200 per month, and only initially, after a time period of say, 3 months, it went down in sales to 70~100 a month.

So I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, right now. I seem to have grasped a better way to profit, though.

I've been making new models every year, and selling models up to 4 years old. Once a model goes 5 years old, I stop producing and selling it, and add the new one which is produced around November/December that year. The newer ones have been cheaper to make, despite having more quality, so I've been placing the same price tags as the older ones, considering they're better than the older ones.

I may have been trying to profit too much from each unit, though. I'm not sure.

At any rate it's getting better, now. I'm making 150~200k a month when there are no taxes, and my expenses are roughly 400k a month total, so they aren't crazy high expenses.

@Edit: Oh. After checking your car, I can say it's even cheaper than mine to make. Mine had 25 horsepower, this time around, while yours has only 10. Seems I haven't grasped the whole engine thing yet, then. Your fuel mileage is way greater than mine, though, so no wonder it had good sales. My car was bad at everything, not just a few things, hehe.