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Originally Posted by SomethingElse
...trying to reduce vehicle emissions...
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Something tells me that this is hardly related. If they're containing only cars produced in the last 25 years in this program, that takes us back to what, 1984? Even then, it would take hundreds of the grossest polluting civilian vehicles to offset one of those from roughly ten years before (which is exempt)!
Let's not get into the fact that, up until just a few years ago, Volkswagen Beetles were being produced to the ORIGINAL FORMULA somewhere south of the border. This program can't put a dent in that mess.
Much of the fate of the air is left to what China decides it should be as their auto industry is hitting full domestic boom. We're along for the ride at this point.
EDIT: This kind of got off the track of the thread... apologies.
The problem with the SVX right now is that anyone can "get in" to the tune of a low price and sacrifice it as any conventional, inexpensive old car. You should almost have to pay for the... well, ethical responsibility of preserving them instead of making them disposable like some sort of econobox. This brings us full circle to a former thread about finding a way to raise their market value across the board. If they could
commonly sell for $3000 in middling repair, they surely would be exempt by the public's choice, regardless of the government's program's rules.