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Originally Posted by minispeed
The US still requires crash testing standards to account for an unbelted occupant. That restricts most of the small cars out of the US automatically. Probably the only way to meet that standard is to have a large padded dashboard.
But the fight was fought, battle was one, the US has the smart car, how well does it sell, how much interest does it even get from potential buyers cross shopping.it? Now there's the iq too which adds in 1 1/2 more seats, let's see how well that sells.
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The battle wasn't really won, I would argue that law should be removed since most everywhere requires safetybelts to operate a car.
Almost as dumb as disallowing collectors to import cars that would meet our standards but were never tested.
I say bah, eliminate all the reagan era gray market laws, if you are willing to pay to import something from a 1st world country and have the police do the walk around it should be allowed on the road.
I would have loved to import a Lupo SDI but uncle sam doesn't allow it.