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Does this get around restrictions on new sales of more polluting vehicles (i.e. non-electric) after 2030?

• gambiting 5y ago
  No, how would it? They just sell the same car that's been refurbished - it's a second hand car, not a new one. The ban is on new vehicles only.
  • intricatedetail 5y ago
    That's how some companies were going around RoHS. Buying old or damaged stock and rebuilding and selling as "new".
    • gambiting 5y ago
      Well I don't think they can legally sell it as new. Land rover actually did something similar with the V8 Defender, they wanted to build one for the 50th anniversary of the defender but there was no chance a "new" defender model would have been been able to go through regulatory approval on that old chassis, so instead they bought hundreds(thousands?) of old second hand defenders off the market, restored them to factory condition and retrofitted them with a brand new V8 engine, gearbox and interior. But those were never sold as "new", your V5C document would always show it as originally registered as whatever the car used to be before the refurbishment.