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Originally Posted by Ohio Enthusiast
Is it though? A Civic SI race car costs $55,000, Civic Type-R $90,000, Miata $59,000 (although I'm not sure if this is an up-to-date price).
Maybe the GR86 Cup car offers substantially more than the other examples. Maybe the other race series cost more, making it a wash for a season's racing, I don't know. $125,000 + $32,000 certainly seems steep for for a $30,000 MSRP'd car. |
The up to date price on the Miata is over $80k USD in Global MX5 Cup spec.
I wrote out a response earlier in this thread that laid out where the cost comes from, but ended up not bothering so I will summarize what I said.
Basically, Honda gets away with the TCA Civic because it is an extremely mass produced chassis/motor combination that it is relatively simple as far as race cars go and was developed in house by HPD.
The Global MX5 Cup and the 86Cup are more expensive because they are not built on a super high production chassis, are outsourcing the builds to small race car companies, and have more goodies like a sequential transmission.
The 86 doesn't have a long history of spec racing behind it like the Miata (money), adds more frills like a Bosch Motorsports ABS unit, Bosch ECU, etc.
Quite frankly, if Toyota cared about grassroots enthusiasts they'd have the equivalent of what Mazda has with Mazda Motorsports contingency and part pricing. Honda does some nice perks with HPD, but not to the level that Mazda does.