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Emissions regulations add little to the cost of any one car or model. There's no secret sauce to catalytic converters or computerized fuel injectors that everyone's powertrains all copy or share.

The cost of distinct models is mostly in crash survivability and related regulated safety systems.

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So why not just reuse the known design that works. No one said this proposed $3k car had to look different?

This whole argument is bunk. Just settle on a design (perhaps borne out of your higher end model) let it trickle down your product line (unchanged) other than stripping useless gadgets, etc.

Why do people assume those in the market for a $3k car care that it have a brand new body style?

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