Friday, August 19, 2011

Because most owners would obviously use it for dropping their kids off at daycare

Thank you, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration! And just what am I supposed to do with my new racing gloves?
Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said "Not so fast."

Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe "advanced" airbags, arguing that complying with the rule would have caused "substantial economic hardship," according to documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
NHTSA denied the request…
If this is part of Obama’s plan to force everybody into a Chevy Volt, it ain’t gonna work.

3 comments:

rinardman said...

The Dick should step in, and allow the car to be imported.

Then he could talk about taxing "corporate jet owners"...and those pesky "million dollar supercar owners".

Michael Lonie said...

"Substantial economic hardship?" Are we talking here about a little extra cost on a car that sells for a million freaking dollars? I think the word "hardship" does not mean what you think it means.

Anonymous said...

Michael;

I think we're talking about a little bit of common fucking sense, like mandating ashtrays on motorcycles (h/t some commenter somewhere) or any of the thousand other...

Oh hell, if we've lost Michael Lonie, we've lost the war.