They gave kit car manufacturers and exemption to produce something like 350 cars a year - safety regs ( aka build a serial redo of a Cobra or a Cheetah ) and use a new engine but no airbags bumpers etc.
My guess is this is quid-pro-quo.
They are controlling everything else, like the R/C model guys now having to "register" any model over .5 lbs and pay a $5 fee.
And supposed relaxation of Gen-Av Medicals but you need to still do a check up every 10 years, and that could fubar you instead of staying "Light Sport" which is was not what Paul Poberezny intended IMHO.
Gov't continues to federalize everything....
We need a fundamental paradigm shift.
Both of our leading hopefuls (Cruz and Trump) need a goodly poke to get them towards this realization.
Trump lurches down the road more irregularly than Cruz does, but when he gets going on something, MAN watch out. He’s on fire.