Unlikely to ever happen.
Nobody ever bombs the market price. Especially not in aviation where customers are ultra conservative and the dealers are very loyal to their present principals.
These little turbines are designed for helicopters and there seems to be no problem selling turbine helis at present prices, so why drop the price? Product differentiation is important to the manufacturers. Consumers are irrelevant. They all hate the manufacturers anyway; after the crankshaft sagas there is zero brand loyalty and if your name is Lyco/Conti then it's a case of once no longer a virgin it doesn't matter what you do.... I asked Lyco at an exhibition about SB569 and they denied there was ever anything wrong with their cranks; the man said it was all done by lawyers, and all actual crank breakages were done by the pilots.
Nobody will actually pay $115k for a Lyco engine. That's the end user list price. The cost-plus (available from some U.S. box shifters) will probably be about $80k. An airframe mfg will probably pay about $50k. An owner will just overhaul his engine, for about $30k.
Currently, the TB21 engine (TIO-540-something) "lists" at $120k, IIRC.
Lyco will probably be selling upgrade kits, and if they don't then GAMI will. But only when the market is 100% ready.
This is aviation....
