Parts for the car are expensive, but the major outlay is actually the labour cost involved to work on the car, the car is designed to be disassembled in order to be worked on.
Bare min would be a couple hours to take down the under trays and reinstall. Pieces are so big it's a 2 man job. Same with the engine cover. Add another hour or so for each extra panels.
Mine is one fo the highest mileage ones, so it needed a bit more work, my rough estimate puts Porsche liable for around 140k CAD sunk into warranty and recalls, 2/3 of which is labour cost. That puts it what, around 100k US, from a selling price of a million. 10%, still less than their profit margin.
But on top of the 918, I am still buying other cars from them, and they make money for each purchase also.
So.
They are still way ahead
Don't forget, a lot of the cars are being parked, wasn't driven much and the owners can't be bothered to go in for recalls and even warranty work. When the 4 years is up, those warranty items will become paid items.
There are also unquantifiable sales from the 918.
The tech on the car is being passed down to their regular production cars--- just to list few: The hybrid system went into the Panamera Hybrid and Cayenne Hybrid, the seats went into every other GT car, the steering wheel also into basically every 991. How much of the sales for their regular range is due to the 918 stuff?
The 918 made hybrids cool. Also forcing Ferrari and McLaren to do hybrid hypercars. It changes people's perspective of hybrids from the time when Prius is the only thing around.
Dollar wise, yes, for me the 918 has the most from the manufacturer. But % wise, nothing come close to my 1st gen Bangle 745i. I kept that car for 3 years, whole I loved that car, the electronic stuff keep failing and BMW ended up replacing the brain for 9k a pop 5 times. The electronic trunk also keep dying and they must of fixed it like 10 times, BMW easily paid 50% of the cost of the car in warranty work there.
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