But then again, you don't get the sales pitch until you've got enough money to purchase the ship. Makes it sort of hard to make money earning goals in your head while you play.
There is still the very obvious price field in the ship buying screen, which is by far the most obvious way of finding out how much a ship cost. You don't even need to look, this post has come from pure happiness.
But there is no ship buying screen in the origional Privateer or Gemni Gold. The Remake has one I know, but I assume the person who was asking would have noticed if he were playing the Remake.