No, that falls flat. A car can be produced by a sufficiently motivated group of people with reasonable funds. A competitive frontier model cannot.

And in contrast to the car, you don’t even get to own the model, you can only purchase access to it; as long as you have the money to pay, and a corporation decides to accept it, with the government always having a veto.

Open models are available that while they seem primitive to current frontier models lag only 1-2 years behind.