US House Resolution Would Allow Factory-Direct Turnkey Replica Vehicles
Has the thought of assembling a replica vehicle put you off of buying one? Thanks to Congress, you may soon be able to buy a factory-direct turnkey model.
U.S. House Resolution 2675 — the “Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015” — is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Representatives Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma and Gene Green of Texas. According to Autoblog, the resolution would grant low-volume vehicle manufacturers — those producing no more than 500 units per year — the right to sell their wares direct from the factory with no assembly required, instead of only shipping them as kits to their customers as occurs now.
Though the vehicles would still need to follow safety and environmental standards as set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, those standards would be applied separately from high-volume manufacturers.
HR 2675 was introduced last week, and will arrive before the House Energy and Commerce Committee at a yet-to-be-determined date.
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"Though the vehicles would still need to follow safety and environmental standards as set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, those standards would be applied separately from high-volume manufacturers." Ummmm....how exactly do you get a vintage 427 Cobra replica to meet EPA or NHTSA regulations, anyway?
I wonder who Messers. Mullin and Green are trying to help out? Or are they starting their own low volume car company?
500 is too low. The number needs to be near at the lower limit of what the big manufacturers will produce before they deem something not worth their effort (unless the vehicle is almost pure profit for them.) Somewhere between 1 and 5 thousand would be more appropriate.
If this passes, somebody's snowflake child is eventually going to kill himself in a factory built FFR Cobra, when he might have survived with side protection, air bags, etc. Then this'll all come to an end.