From: "Gary Britt" 

Can you buy a Mercedes in Germany and ship it to USA and drive it on USA
highways?  Nope.  Not till it gets plenty more pollution control mods.

Gary

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:4456566a$1{at}w3....
> Bzzt.
>
> Not any more.  Both Sweden and Switzerland always had more stringent
> control
> than the USA, and they're now standard everywhere.  Both Britian and
> Germany
> now tax cars by their emissions.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44563495$1{at}w3....
>> Europe doesn't have the pollution control gas mileage sapping laws that
>> we
>> have here.  A car made for EU use can't be sold in the USA until lots of
>> extra pollution control stuff is added to it.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>> news:445604b0$1{at}w3....
>> >> British gallons are bigger than Texas. Gallons, that is.
It therefore
>> >> follows that British ten gallon hats are bigger than
Texan ten gallon
>> >> hats,
>> >> which means that Britons have bigger heads than Texans.     QED.
>> >
>> > I agree. 
>> >
>> >> But seriously, 1 Imperial gallon = 1.2 US gallons, give or take a
>> >> thinbleful.
>> >
>> > I thought there was a little difference.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Bob Comer
>> >
>> >
>> > "Don Hills" 
wrote in message
>> > news:S7eVEtgaXKxJ092yn{at}attglobal.net...
>> >> In article , "Robert
Comer" 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>You sure you aren't using bigger gallons than we do
here?  None of the
>> >>>Audi's sold here even come close to that.  The A3 is
supposed to get
>> >>>around
>> >>>32MPG highway and it's the smallest. (other than the
TT, which doesn't
>> >>>mention the mileage, but I doubt it gets any better.)
>> >>
>> >> British gallons are bigger than Texas. Gallons, that is.
It therefore
>> >> follows that British ten gallon hats are bigger than
Texan ten gallon
>> >> hats,
>> >> which means that Britons have bigger heads than Texans.     QED.
>> >>
>> >> But seriously, 1 Imperial gallon = 1.2 US gallons, give or take a
>> >> thinbleful.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington,
New Zealand
>> >> "New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
>> >> preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
>> >>    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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