They are not in any way subjective. They exist for a reason to solve a known problem such as crash survivability. Most of the laws are years in the making, as are the solutions. They are not written by some petty bureaucrat. You can read how they are formed and what problems they exist to solve. I've never had that level of insomnia to want to read 500 pages of reviews and studies.
You are comparing a custom build of a classic muscle car to a cheap developing world car. Surely you see something wrong with such a comparison.
Because if you allow an exemption to safety and emission regulations for cheap pieces of shit that few would buy, you open the door to exemptions for everything else. Would you like our cities to have the same air quality as Indian cities? China has 8 times our vehicular death rate, is that what you want for the United States? Y’all argue as though safety and emission regulations serve no purpose.
That rate is not a static number. It will lower as the ability to make cars safer allows it to do so. We could build sedans and SUVs with a full CFRC passenger safety cell but the price of a Ford Explorer would go from $35,000 to 1,500,000. Maybe we'll sell you a car without airbags, ABS, and even seatbelts to lower the price $500. What is your life worth in an accident? The cost of your medical, liability and life insurance will rise more than the amount that you saved.
Those are track cars not meant or even permitted to be used on the street. ABS is easy to defeat if you want to do that. Those delete options for track purposes often cost more than the same cars with them.
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All you had to do was say in the beginning you wanted to argue a straw man. I said right off the bat that just because we have a stupid exemption that effects a tiny portion of Americans does not mean we should open it up to everyone out of fairness.
The sales of 250K exotics cannot be compared to midsized SUVs, Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.
Nobody is driving those exotics as an alternative to the cars that are not exempt. This is an apple to oranges comparison. The rich drive Mercedes S-class, BMW 7 series, Rolls Royce, or a large SUV, all of which are not exempt. There might be a few techie millionaires who drive s a Tesla S or a Model-3.
The manufacturer says different. They have a backlog of customers and have delivered near 100, I believe. They're not track cars. According to the manufacturer, they can be registered in all 50 states. They are replicas of mid-60s Mustangs, and Revology is not the only company engaged in this business.
Again a straw man. Its a question damage. That is what regulations do, they mitigate damage. A handful of people spending huge amounts of money to skirt environmental and safety regulations might be unfair, but it won't make any difference in our vehicular death rate or pollution levels. However, if you open that up to everyone, then our quality of life would suffer.
Replicas are a very small fraction of sales. Ford alone probably sells more than 200 F150s and Explorers per day(if they had the chips). Now factor in the equal sales from GM, Honda, Toyota, Chrysler, and Hyundai.The manufacturer says different. They have a backlog of customers and have delivered near 100, I believe. They're not track cars. According to the manufacturer, they can be registered in all 50 states. They are replicas of mid-60s Mustangs, and Revology is not the only company engaged in this business.
I'm looking for someone producing a replica '67 SS Camaro, just in case I win a lottery.
Those cars aren't daily drivers anyhow. They very likely see much less than 1000 miles a year. It's a case of the exemption proves the rule.
Yeah, you said nobody would buy the cheap ones. I give you the benefit of the doubt, and say it would be very few.
The exemption proves the rule is flexible.
So why even mention a replica business that has ever sold maybe 500 hand-built replicas? If they are using a modern engine with fuel injection they should be required to have some level of smog control, such as a simple catalytic converter and EGR loop. Many will get a simple roll cage. They certainly aren't going to be spec'd with the same brakes that Ford used in 1964 or even 1972.
Older cars are still on the road and they don't come close to meeting current NHTSA specs are have ever been threatened to be removed because they do not. they just cannot be sold as new by the OEMs. All new cars must neet the current safety and pollution regs.