And not of a OEM kit assembly type, but a proper on with body shop, and everything. Price? A bit more than $110M
And what do you mean a body shop? Do you mean like a fabrication facility where they form body panels, and then do paint after assembly?
Body shops are where they do repairs for collision and dents after a car is already completed. A domestic factory might have one to fix flaws in the paint and body incurred during manufacturing... Cars imported from overseas get bodywork done at the port, generally due to shipping damage. (Yes your brand new car may have already been repaired.) It's not really the big part of building a car at all though. I feel like you might be missing something, or misunderstanding something. Or maybe it's just me.
A type of a factory that does assembly only from parts, without making parts themselves
> And what do you mean a body shop? Do you mean like a fabrication facility where they form body panels, and then do paint after assembly?
I mean a shop where they manufacture a car body, and its parts.
Normal car factories run $500m for something smallish to $4bn for a facility with more volume.
Yes, the panelling lines is half the cost, and assembly would be mostly manual for the beginning.
Clearly you can open a very small car factory for $1 million with a body shop if you want to.