[CORedneck]

I know back in the 1980's with the grey market cars, you had to do some mods on the car to make it acceptable. I know one thing was to put in the lamer US-DOT headlamps for example.

I own two vehicles that have the old standard sealed beam headlamps. I swapped out the US-DOT regulation lamps for the ECE standard lamps. What I put in was Hella H4 lamps and they are good lamps. Here in Colorao, the law on headlamps are pretty lenient but other states especially the East Coast states like VA require you to be US-DOT compliant. They get you in the safety inspections.

I would favor changing our regulations to where ECE cars are acceptable without modification.

Another item, I considered taking several months and travel around New Zealand and Australia. I would consider buying a motorcycle there and when the trip was done, bring it home but US regs get in the way.

[Kenny Bunk]

The EU had adopted California DOT Regs as the EU Standard. Germany first. I thought this meant that all euromobiles (gasoline-powered) would be automatically USA compliant.

In re lighting: I thought that US cars now used euro-style halogen headlights. I remember in the bad old days, we used Hella, Cibie, Lucas, or Carrello headlights, switching them back to those weak old-fashioned sealed beams if state inspections came along.

The biggest foolishness is the Greens' prejudice against diesels. If small, modern dieselswere an option to power American family cars, there probably would be no need to import oil.