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I left Chrysler back in 1979. But even back then, the EPA testing required to get a vehicle model certified for production was far, far more extensive than the quickie tests used by local authorities to permit your vehicle.
We haven't had emissions testing here in Florida for about ten years. But for the decade or so when we did have emissions tests, I never had a vehicle flunk one and passed all the tests by orders of magnitude. I always found that to be ironic when I thought back on all the hell we went through to certify a vehicle at Chrysler. But that is probably why we went through all that hassle: So the consumer could breeze through any local tests, which, as mentioned above, aren't consistent across the country.
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