&gt;despite it costing over $1 million USD, because the research to make it was so costly &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>Does the research only apply to the Veyron? I&#x27;d be surprised if they can&#x27;t use advances there in other lines of cars or get patents that they can profit from when used by other car manufacturers.<p>It does however speak to good marketing to say &quot;we make this car for the love of making cars&quot; rather than &quot;we use this as a way of targeting R&amp;D that we can then exploit in other vehicle lines&quot;.<p>&#x2F;cynicism