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"In the wake of Japanese auto manufacturers eating US manufacturer's lunch in the US we banned entire swaths of vehicles" Those are safety requirement issues.
by giantg2 3y ago
"In the wake of Japanese auto manufacturers eating US manufacturer's lunch in the US we banned entire swaths of vehicles"
Those are safety requirement issues. That's why classics get an exemption. You can't domestically manufacturer simular vehicles because they wouldn't meet the standards either.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoBut that's the issue. Those cars are legal in basically every jurisdiction except the US (they have equivalent classes in the EU as well). We basically set the laws such that their niche wasn't viable despite being perfectly safe.
- giantg2 3y ago"despite being perfectly safe" I think there's some background missing here on a definition and the restrictions of those classes.