It is difficult to understand how this is not outright fraud. If I bought a Honda without ABS (let's pretend it was in the 90s) but paid a lot extra for a prom

It is difficult to understand how this is not outright fraud. If I bought a Honda without ABS (let's pretend it was in the 90s) but paid a lot extra for a promise that they'll retrofit ABS later but never do, clearly that would be fraud.