Originally posted by PackRat: I think part of NAFTA (if NAFTA is ever fully implemented)is to harmonize the regulations so that cars from Mexico could be eventually imported as easily as Canadian cars. All Mexican cars have emissions control equipment now (even the old Beetle) and leaded fuel is no longer sold, although the "el cheapo" fuel might as well be leaded, since it is full of so much crap!
If that was part of the NAFTA 'concept' (I don't recall ever hearing about that part), it has not been implemented. It would not surprise me if the European manufacturers (not counting Ford Of Europe) supplied common-spec vehicles to all three (technically 4, since there are two emissions regulation bodies within the States) markets. Ford is too obsessed with cutting corners to do something sensible like that.
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