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Originally Posted by niky
$$$. EPA doesn't have the budget or manpower to do everything itself. All it can do is random audits of the results.
And even the manufacturers don't do everything themselves. The C-Max issue arose earlier because they were allowed to apply EPA figures for the drivetrain between platforms (if I recall right).
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What?! The EPA could easily charge the companies to do it. New model? Decent changes? YOU MUST RETEST.
Before I knew the slightest hair about FE (old EPA estimates?) I thought this was the way it was done.