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Originally Posted by JSH
Auto companies don't care about people importing 25 year old cars. The AAMVA is not affiliated with automakers - it is an organization of state DMV officials.
States do car about increasing the number of unsafe and highly polluting cars on their roads. Why should we allow the USA to be a dumping ground for Japan's old crappy cars?
These cars are legal to import into the USA under federal law. However, registration is the jurisdiction of the states. States do not have to register cars that never met and still do not meet US safety and emission standards.
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Really your gonna argue a modern 1st world country like Japan doesn’t care about pollution? They have an ECU and Cat, the years imported are 4cycle.
These cars are usually exported due to the costs to keep rust free .
We export millions of older and junk cars in far worse shape overseas
We get back around 10,000 Japanese minicars in good shape that mostly take the place of ATVs, golf carts and side by sides.
I guarantee THERE IS NO NEGATIVE POLLUTION IMPACT .
To the north of this state many families no longer own a car and drive road legal side by sides instead, guaranteed that mini cars are much better than the Side by sides that plug all rural roads and side streets around here.
Honestly I would argue importing far more of these vehicles would reduce pollution given they have to have a cat, pass pollution control tests for their model year and are road legal HMS side, far superior to the Smokey ATVs they replace but our local government loves road legal ATVs because of local jobs and $$$.
And yes my Subaru 360 passes smog and it’s not even a 4 cycle, no different than another old car of the same year. It just burns a lot less fuel.
Once again $$$$ overrules common sense let’s run completely uncompliant ATVs on the road instead of clean running efficient mini cars that have an ecu and cat.