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Originally Posted by Shark_Bait88
I was referring more to misconceptions about how products are developed, who has a hand in their approval/development, and how information is disclosed about those new products. Of course upgraded models/trims can be added, but that's a completely different discussion from the point I was making in my post.
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I am pretty sure that a lot of the "they can just do xxx" folks think that the development process consists of running out to the corner auto shop and saying "we need this, that and one of those" and slapping it on the car.
I am not even directly involved in the development of new parts and still spend a great deal of time providing info, researching materials and ensuring compliance for the guys that are involved.
Just monitoring and ensuring that the emission control requirements are met for all the countries where a vehicle is sold is a full time job for a whole department in my company!
Different countries and even different States (I don't know how cars even run in California anymore) have different requirements and the car has to meet them all to be sold there.
Just because you can buy an aftermarket turbo and slap it on your car does not mean it meets the requirements and could be sold as stock.
In Canada we could not have Evos right up to the X model since they failed the crash tests that only permit so much damage (don't recall the cut off point, sorry) at a 10 mile an hour crash. All that was keeping them out of the country was the position of the intercooler and the fact it got damaged in a head on crash. Mitsu did not see a big enough market to change everything just for Canada so we had to wait until a full model change to get them.