RE: Gray Market Cars

["Psychotic Don't-you-dare-tickle-me Elmo" <honge@creighton.edu>]

>I doubt that even _they'd_ be able to get away with it ... I think that the 
>EPA chose to make an example of the Porsche 959 for some reason.  I heard 
>that the EPA went bananalands over a letter that was printed in AutoWeek 
>saying that someone had seen a 959 on the Golden Gate bridge but lost them 
>in downtown San Francisco.  I've seen 914s with body kits that made them 
>look like 959s ...

It's one of the great mysteries. Some mag said it was because DOT and/or
NHTSA does/do not want a car so powerful, yet easy to drive that even
grannies can navigate it to the local supermarket.

But whatever the reason is, have you noticed that we don't get many "high
tech, high performance" vehicles as rest of the world? Maybe it's just
like the crappy U.S. headlights story. THe gov't is afraid that, if those
high-tech, high-performance cars come in, then the domestic car makers
will go out of business because no one would buy the unreliable,
inefficient domestic cars.

Alright, so that's a little bit far fetched reason... (^:

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