I'm calling BS on the "price of a nice car" bit.
I'm currently building the car body sides, hoods, fenders and deck lids for the Aston Martin Vanquish . Granted they are carbon composite but the whole set ( 90% ) of the cars body comes in at around the same price as they were asking for that monstrosity . And The Aston is a damn site bigger than that lid, and the tooling involved vastly more expensive.
That things worth £500 tops for novelty value.... If based on an accurate lid and not a Rubies.