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89615kg to LEO (kg converted from curb weight of 112 '69 Beetles[1]) would actually cost 1,613,076,070 dollars[2].

Not if you use a SpaceX Falcon 9.

edit: A quick search turned up a cost of less than $5,500/kg to LEO so it would only cost $492,882,500!

Pricing everything in the number of times you could rocket to space seems like "the next" Internet meme.

Great for SpaceX for achieving that, but it's really not a measuring stick for value.

Not a measuring stick for value, no. But certainly a measuring stick for "expensive as hell".

Indeed I was using SpaceX Falcon 9 numbers. Looks like I botched my math though.