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Originally Posted by ermax
It really has nothing to do with how much pollution it produces. The point is it would change, hell it may even produce less emissions (than the AT with old in/ex manifolds). But it would need to be retested which cost money. The OP was asking why the AT didn't get the red manifold. No one really knows for sure but it seems logical that they didn't want to make changes that would cause them to need to recertify for a 25% market share.
Not really even sure what you are arguing about. Something other than the original topic I guess.
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The actual level may mean nothing (although I strongly suspect it would exceed the limits based on the European standards) it is the whole business case put together. It is pretty clear that absorbing the extra manufacturing costs to have two different versions being built outweighed the benefits of changing the AT (and all EU versions). Subaru and Toyota are not some mom and pop shop that just does such things for shits and giggles. There is a business case that they are not going to share with us and based on what we do know that case is based around emissions.