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Old 10-11-2019, 01:34 PM   #242
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To get around the new regulation, manufacturers should start buying up old cars from the 90s and 80s and "restore" them under an official restoration program. They have the same VINs so can get away with it and the cars can be restored to new condition. I think Porsche, Nismo and Jag have done this in limited numbers. They got to do this before all these cars get scrapped.
So they would have a handful of 30 year old tech, expensively restored cars that they could only sell for big dollars? Not a great business plan when you think it through. There is a reason that the others only did it on a very limited basis with very special cars.
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