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The Motor Vehicle Safety Compliance Act of 1988 ended import of grey-market vehicles to the USA. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the United States has an almost blanket ban on importing all vehicles younger than twenty-five years old. With very few exceptions, you can’t just import a car from another part of the world until it has turned twenty-five years old.
The petition is only pushing for a change in the law from the twenty-five year limit to fifteen. Meaning that the newest car you could import would be a 1999 instead of a 1989. I realize the number of people who truly care about this is minimal, but if we generate enough buzz it should be possible. Many people may never personally import a car, but at least they would have the ability to do it. The worst that could happen would be that a few handfuls of car nuts would be driving around in some weird cars from the '90s. And that, in my opinion... would be a beautiful thing.
I encourage any NTers who have an interest in this issue to sign this petition and pass it around to as many people as you can over the next 30 days.
Link:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...-importation-non-conforming-cars-and/PhZ4RMgz
Just imagine all the possibilities
Please keep this thread alive and contribute with cars you would import if this act were repealed.
The petition is only pushing for a change in the law from the twenty-five year limit to fifteen. Meaning that the newest car you could import would be a 1999 instead of a 1989. I realize the number of people who truly care about this is minimal, but if we generate enough buzz it should be possible. Many people may never personally import a car, but at least they would have the ability to do it. The worst that could happen would be that a few handfuls of car nuts would be driving around in some weird cars from the '90s. And that, in my opinion... would be a beautiful thing.
I encourage any NTers who have an interest in this issue to sign this petition and pass it around to as many people as you can over the next 30 days.
Link:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...-importation-non-conforming-cars-and/PhZ4RMgz
Just imagine all the possibilities
Land Rover Defender
Ford Falcon xr6 Ute
Holden Maloo
Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle (Still produced in mexico through 2003)
TVR Tuscan
Ford Escort RS Cosworth
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Eunos Cosmo
Autozam AZ-1
BMW e36 M3 Touring
BMW e34 M5 Touring
Nissan s15 Sylvia
Nissan r34 Skyline GTR
Ford Falcon xr6 Ute
Holden Maloo
Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle (Still produced in mexico through 2003)
TVR Tuscan
Ford Escort RS Cosworth
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Eunos Cosmo
Autozam AZ-1
BMW e36 M3 Touring
BMW e34 M5 Touring
Nissan s15 Sylvia
Nissan r34 Skyline GTR
Please keep this thread alive and contribute with cars you would import if this act were repealed.
