> Well, I guess it depends on what you define as "profit". I was thinking
> in terms of the sale price minus the cost of making the thing.

There is the marginal cost of making a car, which is the amount it costs 
to make "one more", assuming you already have all the design finished 
and assembly lines in place.

Also don't forget the selling price includes taxes (20% in UK), 
transportation costs, registration costs, dealer profit margin etc.

So to measure profit as the selling price minus the marginal cost 
doesn't seem too helpful.

> I tell you what, if somebody even managed to pull that off in the first
> place, even if they only made one single usable CD, I'd still be pretty
> impressed. :-D Yeah, that ain't gonna be cheap though. ;-)

It's actually quite an interesting problem.  What is the cheapest way to 
manufacture: a) 1 CD, b) 100 CDs, c) 10000 CDs, d) 1000000 CDs.  You can 
do the same for cars, circuit boards, bikes, organs, whatever.

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