In answer to your first question, I have never heard of or witnessed
this practice you describe, but I am sure it would be looked down on
as it seems to be in violation of the current rules. In past years
the cost report format was different, it involved coming up with a
mass production cost instead of a prototype cost. Maybe this is what
you are thinking of. The current object of the cost report is to show
the actual cost of producing your prototype vehicle, not a mass
produced model. All of the exact parts on your car should be on the
cost report. Starting last year, the judges have been cracking down
and actually comparing the vehicles to their cost reports to check for
this sort of thing.
Full retail price (i.e. MSRP) is supposed to be used, regardless of
whether you paid less for it or not. If you cannot find the actual
MSRP, then I would use what seems like the normal retail price
(assuming you got the part at a discount).
Justin Scheifflee
UB Mini-Baja
Quoting Charles Ray <Charles.Ray@student.oc.edu>:
> What then would everyone consider "full retail" price? "Full
> retail"
> price seems somewhat like MSRP. Even though that is the suggested
> price, no one sells it at that amount. If Joe Schmoe can go online
> and
> but an a-arm at multiple places for under "retail" price, what is
> the
> actual "retail" price? The price that the vendor quotes as "full
> retail" or the price that is available at multiple locations?
> Thanks
> again.
>
> -Charles Ray
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