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Another interesting rebuke from Wolff is the cost of the new engine supply program. With many news reports suggesting the cost of a power unit supply program is around $30 million, Wolff says this is wrong:
“The old engines were somewhere between €10 million ($11 million) and €14 million ($16 million). If you had a Mercedes engine the price was around €14 million ($16 million), today you are around €16.5 million ($19 million). The wrong figures are flying around. I would say that if you look at the complete market, including our competitors and us, it costs between €15 million ($17 million) and €17 million ($19 million) – it’s about 15 to 20% more for the new generation of hybrid power units. I don’t know where the other figures come from. They are wrong numbers.”
On one hand you have to suggest that the leader of Mercedes AMG Petronas would know what he sells his engines for but on the other hand, teams such as Force India—a Mercedes customer—have suggested the costs are much higher than this.
Source:
http://www.formula1blog.com/f1-news/haa ... e-in-2016/