As said before overhead and R&D costs. They supply a lot of parts that they have to be selling close to cost. Cost? well add in the R&D and prototype stages, plus the materials and manufacturing. Do you think they are going to make much money on door pockets for the 700's. Not if they only sell 100 pairs.
But it they were to sell 2000 pairs that would be a nice piece of change.
Who else sells accessories for 240,700,900's other than Volvo of NA. NO ONE
If I was them I would bring in the BMW and Saab lines. That would increase their sales and lower the over head. I wouldn't touch any Rice performance parts only because there is so many suppliers across the country. Take a good look over at the Volvoworld web site, under production figures. Figure at the max only 1/2 of those cars are still on the road. Then figure that maybe 40% of the production was Turbos. So say 65,000 were built in year 19XX so what is left
13,000 turbos MAYBE. OR 260 per state. If you figure in Manuals which averaged
3% of production then your looking at 390 cars left in the US of that year with a turbo and a manual. In the last 3 years Honda probably sold more Vtec's that 700 and 900 left on the road.