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Originally Posted by Corbic

I'd have to see the die but I'm sure you could do something using a zinc based tool for $40-90k setup on nitros. Internet a vendor in Detroit was doing the whole read skin of a CRV off a $200K tool.

You don't need production rate steel dies since you will never churn out +30k a year.

Hopefully these cars can build a restoration culture like vintage muscle did. I'm skeptical however as millennials and zoomers are way to "throw away". Hot rod restoration began almost immediately in the early 80's (barely 15 years removed) and took off in the 90's. We're now 30 years out and it's still not taking off.

Even if the tooling was $20k each, that still has to be spread out to the cost of the product, and very few companies actually have access to new or mint product in the first place to do this.

As for the availability of parts, that's all dependent on the market. People are still in a 2010/"too cheap for new parts" mentality...