# What's the quality of an exotic sports car?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-quality-of-an-exotic-sports-car/782765 "2017-03-22T15:30:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avery\_Weisman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@Avery\_Weisman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avery_Weisman)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-quality-of-an-exotic-sports-car/782765/61 "2017-03-28T01:52:56Z")

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Derleth is right about the after-sales service being proprietary. And some high-end makers do make money mainly on that.

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-quality-of-an-exotic-sports-car/782765/62 "2017-03-28T02:05:54Z")

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> [@jz78817](#):
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> > [@Derleth](#):
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> > Well, the overriding principle is that it should be profitable, not just to sell initially, but to service, and to sell add-ons to, and high-end cars certainly succeed on those metrics.
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> LOL no. Bentley sells a relative handful of lard-assed crap barges, and on sales of 2 billion Euros they only turned a profit of €112m in 2016.

You understand what the word “profit” means, right? Nothing you have said here contradicts the point made by **Derleth** , which is that these companies want to turn a profit, and Bentley did exactly that.

Your figures show profit at 5.6% of revenue (112 million / 2 billion).

In 2015, [General Motors earned](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/business/gm-general-motors-q4-earnings.html?_r=0) a record $9.7 billion in profit on $152.4 billion in revenue. That’s a profit/revenue figure of 6.4%, not that much higher, in percentage terms, than Bentley.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-quality-of-an-exotic-sports-car/782765/63 "2017-03-28T02:15:22Z")

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> [@jz78817](#):
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> LOL no. Bentley sells a relative handful of lard-assed crap barges, and on sales of 2 billion Euros they only turned a profit of €112m in 2016.
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> cite: [Bentley - Volkswagen Group Annual Report 2016](http://annualreport2016.volkswagenag.com/divisions/bentley.html)

Hey! The Continental GT and GT Speed aren’t lardasses! Okay, well, they _are_ lardasses at 5200lbs, but its got a 600+hp V-12 in it good for 0-100 in 9 secs and 205mph top speed!

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