that relies upon illegal use for a significant share of its revenue. Its own data shows that just 2 percent of its’ customers vehicles are dedicated race cars — it’s trying to protect the other 98 percent of its business that share the roads with you and me.
RESC claimed in its filings, as SEMA had in the Gear Box Z case, that “conversions” to a race car mean a motor vehicle is no longer a motor vehicle. The problem with this notion is that there is absolutely no process or allowance whatsoever for such a conversion in the Clean Air Act…for motor vehicles. But, there is exactly this process for off-road vehicles, which DO have an exemption for competition under the Clean Air Act.
, which require documentation of the vehicle’s capabilities and disqualification from safe road use. These narrow exemptions help ensure that such vehicles are used where required to fulfill the required limit of the competition exemption — on the track.would be a narrowly tailored bill requiring a motor vehicle be decertified as part of the “conversion” to a race car, therefore eliminating any possible concerns about the vehicle being used on public roads.
Unfortunately, this common sense pathway to narrowly amend the Clean Air Act was rejected by SEMA — in fact, the latest version of theThe reason for this is obvious: SEMA is simply not interested in limiting the sales of defeat devices to the small, hobbyist racer segment of the market. Instead, they are trying to exploit sympathy for this narrow segment of the market to open up a loophole allowing the much larger number of illegal sales currently fostered by SEMA’s companies.
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