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no french cars in the USA?
Level42:
And the low dollar rate to the Europe (a whopping 1.41 now !) isn't helping things for European brands either. US brand cars keep getting cheaper here though :D
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: patrickl on October 06, 2007, 02:18:34 pm ---The US has different safety and emission regulations , but I'd say they are on average less strict than the European ones. The difference might require extra investments though.
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An English guy in my race club wanted to race a car with right side steering, so he brought over a Ford Mexico from England.
It was a pain for him to ship it over. At customs they almost rejected the car entry, he had to argue that it was a race car. They told him it had to do with emission standards. He was told it can never be a street car. It might have been because the car was a race car, and race cars have lower emission standards than street cars, but on the reverse side of the coin... cousins of mine have shipped two American muscle cars to Ireland and there were no restrictions placed on them. These were cars built in the 60s and they got a free pass Europe. The ironic thing is my cousins got these cars cheap because at the time California had laws that would have scrapped these cars because they were bad for the environment.
I don't know if Switzerland has stricter emissions than America, but you can’t speak for your fellow EUons.
patrickl:
A race car has quite different emission standards from a street car (even if the street car is a muscle car)
A 60's car has to comply to different emission standards than a modern car.
Switzerland is not in the EU.
California indeed has very strict emission standards
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 07, 2007, 07:31:32 pm ---There is pretty much one criterion for choosing a police cruiser: It has to be a Crown Victoria.
That's about it.
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well, that answers my query about what you guys are using. or should i say aboot, since they are made in canada! those things certainly seem to take a lot of damage. now i can put a name to the 'face' so to speak...
TOK:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on October 09, 2007, 03:08:22 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 07, 2007, 07:31:32 pm ---There is pretty much one criterion for choosing a police cruiser: It has to be a Crown Victoria.
That's about it.
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well, that answers my query about what you guys are using. or should i say aboot, since they are made in canada! those things certainly seem to take a lot of damage. now i can put a name to the 'face' so to speak...
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Again, many departments use the Crown Vic, but not all of them.
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