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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Actually, wrapping the fine into the base price might be an adequate strategy. People ask monthly payments nowadays, not out the door price. Lady next door doesn't know final price of the 'burb she is renting. Afaics, it's more than my first house in LA based on the online build site.
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Wrapping fines into the purchase price has been the standard way of doing business for luxury car manufacturers like BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche for decades. However that only works for some fines. CAFE and ZEV you can just pay the fine. Local emissions regulated by EPA 4 and EPA 2027 are hard and fast limits with credit system internal to a company but without credit trading between companies. So Ford can't just ignore EPA 2027 and buy credits from Tesla.