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Quality
OK, as an engineer in the automotive industry I can confidently add that:
a. Both the Ferrari and the Toyota are basically means of extracting money from the punters on behalf of the shareholders. They just do it different ways.
b. "Quality" in the automotive industry has certain definite meanings, which have more to do with factors such as predictability and uniformity than "performance".
c. It is generally harder to design down to a price than up to a performance level, because the profit margin is so much smaller. In terms of pure engineering a Toyota has probably had a lot more input in terms of engineering effort and decisions than a Ferrari (mainly because of the enormous effort involved in controlling the cost of every last part and process).
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