“You cannot import a vehicle built and certified to meet the vehicle standards of a foreign country because the Motor Vehicle Safety Act doesn’t allow you to modify such a vehicle to meet Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.”
“You cannot import a vehicle built and certified to meet the vehicle standards of a foreign country because the Motor Vehicle Safety Act doesn’t allow you to modify such a vehicle to meet Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.”
Yes, it’s super stupid and a great exemple of wasted federal tax money.
We could simply accept both UNECE WP.29 Standards and the US FMVSS and be done with it.
Even japan not being in the EU they adopted the EU car standard.
But nooooooooooo the CMVSS is already a 98% copy paste of the US FMVSS but they moved a couple numbers around to justify their salaries.
Yet it took them like 15 years to put a regulation in place to prohibit cars from having light up clusters with their lights are off as it cause soo many NPC to drive around with their lights off at night, mostly hyundais.
Most countries that aren’t part of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations still accept UN ECE vehicles. The only ones that don’t are the US and Canada.
I am hopeful that CETA kills CMVSS and eventually FMVSS too (since the US auto industry has big ties to Canada).
It would instantly solve our lack of small affordable car problem too.