Don Rey wrote:
>
> Hey guys, after Tom mentioned that Jeep Cherokees are still alive in
> China, I shipped a friend of mine over to check 'em out! Actually it
> just so happens that our company sent him on a business trip to China.
> He's a Jeep guy and was real interested when I pointed him to the site
> Tom gave us. Anyway, here's his e-mail.
>
> (snip)
> i spent 3 hours
> driving around central china with a taxi driver that had no English
> trying to find a jeep dealer….what a day that was!
> (snip)
hahahahahahahaha!!!!
Dude - good luck trying to import one! I was reading about whats
necessary to import cars/trucks from outside the US... and if its about
20 years old or whatever... no problem, its exempt from the US
regulations on importing... but if its new or new-ish... forget it.
They require emissions tests, crash tests - which is like you have to
have so many cars of the same model that you want to import - crash
tested and evaluated to show they meet US regs... I don't remember all
the details - but its insane to try to do it.
Might be able to get away with it if you convert the drive train over to
something thats already EPA certified... and could possibly fight the
crash testing issue because its basically the same friggin jeep that was
sold here - just its cosmetically different.
Good luck and if he finds a way - put me down for one :-)
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