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Super cars body are made of carbon fiber, which are light and resistant. But is much more expensive than aluminum or steel for example. So making a body of carbon fiber would cost more than all components in the "normal" car. Also carbon fiber is hard (or impossible) to fix because they don't dent, they break, needing to replace the entire body.
I mean they could easily injection mould comparable parts. I imagine this is more of a numbers game.
How big is the market for wildly impractical supercar-esque vehicles? Will mass production reduce cost enough? Will people buy them if they lack similar performance to actual supercars? How does the brands established reputation and image fit in?
It's pretty easy to see why the bean counters would shut down tooling up a whole productionisation effort for a product that likely won't make the company money.
That's my hunch anyway. If there was money in it, they'd be doing it. Instead you get cars like the supra and skyline, which can absolutely be turned into supercar level performance if people are willing, but otherwise is a decent off the shelf sports car.