VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER!

The table's projected price does not make sense when you break it down into its components.  As VPI has done in the past, sometimes they build a statement product just to see if it can be done and hope to take some of their findings and trickle it down into their "main" production run.  Similarly to what they did with their first $30K DD table which spawned a second $15K DD table.  Is VPI trying to be like Ford and challenging the Ferrari's of the TT world?  I wish any manufacture of niche audio products luck, we need them.