On 6/26/06, p406aut <reinerplass@aol.com> wrote:
> As far as I know Chrysler uses different headlights for the two
> markets - the reason being that sealed beam headlights are illegal in
> Germany (Not sure about the rest of Europe) due to their inefficiency
> and the US requires sealed beams, so they must be different.
The car in question was one of the recent 300s (I forget whether it
was the RWD or FWD version). The lights *were* different between the
markets. The US got crappy plastic DOT lamps, and the Euro market got
improved ECE approved lamps that happened to meet DOT specs as well.
I think the biggest obstacle is money, not redesign. I suspect much
of the European equipment would meet appropriate US standards (or
exceptions) without redesign. Regardless, the certification is
expensive, especially if you've got to sacrifice a few cars for crash
testing (that would obviously increase the cost of importation by a
factor of two at least).
--
alex
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Received on Mon Jun 26 16:37:08 2006
