Saturday, May 21, 2022

first time I've ever seen a Peugeot on the interstate, and I think it's because it has Mexico license plates, it's probably sold in Mexico but not in the USA, there are some cars that are. Strangely, they are allowed to drive in the USA

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  1. Why strange? Canadian reg'd cars can drive in the US (as could my Danish reg'd motorcycle), and US reg'd cars can cross the border into Mexico.

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    1. if it were legal to sell them in a country, then it follows that they would be legal to drive on that countries roads.
      So, take that to the opposite direction, and as it is not legal to sell them in a country, as they are not built to the dept of transportation standards for crash safety for example, then they should not be legal to drive in that country, because they do not meet the minimum safe standards that country has established.
      Now, does it make sense that a car must meet crash standards, while a motorcycle obviously can not? Or that a car driver must wear a seat belt when a motorcycle rider does not? Nope. Not to me.
      As for Danish reg'd motorcycles, there is not likely any connection to them not being sold in the USA, and the same goes for Canadian reg'd cars, and the USA DOT safety or smog regulations. But Mexico cars do NOT meet the smog and crash standards, and that is why they are NOT able to sell those models in the USA. Also, why they are much less expensive.
      I recently posted about some car model that didn't meet any crash standards, and was built to such a low cost that Brazilian taxi drivers could buy them.

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    2. A country like Denmark, which has very strict codes for how cars and motorcycles should be built, follow int'l rules* that allow for vehicles reg'd in other countries to be used on Danish roads. I've seen foreign reg'd vehicles rolling here, that would never pass Danish tech inspection or in any way be within our environmental laws (choppers, hotrods, all sorts of homebuilt stuff), but here said int'l rules override the Danish ones.

      I know that just because it says so on The Internets is no guarantee that it is true, but googling 'can you drive a Mexican registered car in the USA' brought forth the below:

      Motorists visiting the United States as tourists from countries that have ratified the Convention on *International Road Traffic of 1949 may drive in the U.S. for one year with their own national license plates (registration tags) on their own national license plates (registration tags) on their cars and with their own …

      Mexican citizens can drive an imported vehicle on U.S. roads for up to a year, but then it must return to Mexico or it will be confiscated. It is illegal to sell a car that has been imported under these conditions.

      My old East German motorcycle likely pollutes more than 10 new mid-size sedans, yet the US authorities had no problem letting me ride the 2-stroke smoking thing across the continent.

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  2. Why do you think it is illegal to sell Peugeots in the US? Pugs are legit in the European Union both by safety and smog regulations which are about as strict as in the US. I guess they are just did not have the money to invest to a countrywide dealer and service network. But believe me, you guys want Suzuki back more then to have Pugs. ;-) We have a saying here - and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings: "You don't want to buy the Three F Cars! French, FIAT and Ford".

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