If you are talking about the bolded part, are they referencing the manufacturing cost or the consumer cost?
It is something akin to a straw man argument because it is entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter that something manufacturing cost is low if no one buys it.
If I can make a million goat hamburgers for half the cost of a million beef hamburgers but only 10% of the market wants goat and 50% of the market wants beef, what difference does it make that goat hamburgers are cheaper? GM and the others problem is they haven't been focusing on making their car sales profitable and have relied solely on their SUV sales.
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