kwpony
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I'm sure there are those that would like to take that away from us.Ok, back on topic. At least we get the opportunity to buy Mustangs in Europe. I'm thankful for that.
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I'm sure there are those that would like to take that away from us.Ok, back on topic. At least we get the opportunity to buy Mustangs in Europe. I'm thankful for that.
You are right!Wow, that's insane. As we know the environment can only be saved if normal people pay thousands of more euros to the government, which are really good in handling the money.
But I'm pretty sure Germany will have the last years before such crazy laws come to us too, thanks to the green hype that the regular car is the devil (who cares about planes, vessels, factories, etc).
And the dumbest part is, when you import an US car by yourself, you can skip most of the emission regulations...
@Willow: I'm pretty sure your order will be updated soon.
And the "test every part" rule is now made even worse by the WLTP emission tests. As a result, manufacturers are starting to only offer a small number of option bundles whereas they used to offer the bundle as a way of you saving a few euros/quid (by buying a few things you didn't need!) but still allow you to buy the individual options instead. They literally have to test with every combination and publish emissions info for each combination - versus what they used to do which was test with the lightest combination possible (the only exception oddly being bigger wheels/tyres where under the old rules they still had to publish different figures to make sure company car drivers paid as much tax as possible!).Afaik (from talking with the head of Mustang for Ford Europe) they are not offering complete US packages, because they have to get permits for alle the new parts (wheels, spoilers, rearpanels, etc) and this is pretty expensive. So they really have to calcute, if only 200 people will buy the package, will it actually be worth it.
And some parts not allowed at all in Europe, e.g. they had to go for the fake gascap rearpanels because the GT logo on the base us rearpanel does not fit the pedestrian protection laws. This is no joke, european laws are that crazy.