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Originally Posted by GIZZ
Watch them ban these cars. Make the manufacturer comply with the noise guidelines or the cars will be unsellable. That would be a major backfire.
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Gizz,
Every single one of those cars that underwent the test already complies with the ISO 5130 federal noise guidelines. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been possible for them to be on sale as street cars here in Canada. And that was the whole point of the PCA-CWR's complaint -- the VPD's street side noise testing is done incorrectly because the ISO 5130 standard requires controlled conditions that cannot be met in a road side test.
With the way the auto industry is heading though, high performance ICE cars are already heading the way of the dodo. The US and EU have already introduced legislations that ban the sale of new cars with non zero emissions, with some of those legislations coming into effect as early as 2030 (Germany, and potentially other EU countries as well) -- that's happening in less than 10 years! BC is supposed to transition into ever larger percentages of zero emission vehicles over multiple phases as well, with 2040 being the goal when all new car sales will be zero emission vehicles. EVs will not be making any exhaust noise at all.