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Originally Posted by Jean-Claude
Do you think because a car is designed in Germany they don't build cars according to EPA laws(whatever they are)? A lot of BMW's are made right here in the US. In those cases, they MUST. I'm guessing that they use the same paint on their cars instead of using umpteen different paint systems for different lands
Think of California's CARB. Manufacturers are building cars that are shipped all over the world according to one state's requirements.
EPA is a bottleneck and they totally build cars around it.
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EPA regulations have nothing to do with painting a car in Germany. The California idea you pose is about emissions; not manufacturing. How much the process of building a car in Germany will pollute Germany is of no concern to the EPA. How much that German car pollutes air in America is a concern of the EPA.
A car made in America by any manufacturer must abide by the Clean Air Act as well as other regulations set in place by not only the EPA, but any local municipalities additionally.
Whether or not the EPA is a bottleneck is debatable. What is not is that the paint of e90/92's has NOTHING to do with the EPA.