How did you get that price for a Taipan when they don't make them at all? Must be the last quoted price from mid '06 as I haven't heard that they restarted production.
Correct.
Incidently the AHPC website still links to the Taipan 4.9 PDF file that contains the pricing. The date of this pricing is Oktober 2006
http://www.ahpc.com.au/pdf/AHPC%20Price%20List%20Taipan.pdf
I know a friend who bought a Taipan in the low 300s sail number who didn't pay anywhere near that kind of price new for a stock Taipan. So I don't think the last quoted price of a Taipan is a good indicator.
It is the last known official pricing.
Economic developments has increased pricing on alot of products over the last few years. Maybe the Taipan pricing was raised as a result of this as well. Maybe more so then the single digit production. Afterall, all the tooling, moulds and stock have long been payed for, so single digit production may not raise cost too much.
For us Europeans the standard Taipan 4.9 with spinnaker was always 16.000 Euro's = 25.450 Aud at todays unfavourable exchange rate (less AUD per Euro). Shipping to EU was never really expensive for AHPC as these boats would just share a ride with the Capricorn or A-cat containers going over regulary.
But anyway, this is a passed station. The Viper F16 quote will be the one to watch.
Wouter
