Duster — Spend All That $$$ Then Sell For A Huge Loss

No, that isn't it.
The car build cost was waaaaaaaay too high. Whoever commissioned the build must have had enormous amounts of money and poor judgement.
The car looks great but WTF ???

enormous amounts of money and poor judgment…. Plenty of people in the world for that.

just think of it as redistributing cash.

what does a million dollar yacht worth in 5 years ?