wouldn't it be great if they could incorporate the light standards of EVERY country from the outset? Except that many of those are outright contradictory to each other. One country REQUIRES amber fog lamps, others like many US states BAN them outright. Parking lights, rear fog lamps, etc, etc, etc.... you can't please every govt. agency on the planet except by giving them piles of money. I will be shocked if they can sell the same vehicle in every state of the US without some kind of regional regulation messing with the works somewhere. And it's not going to help that every useless paper-pushing beaurocrat on the planet perches their Napoleanic complex at the pinnacle of a motor-vehicle regulations mountain that rivals Mt. Everest, much of which is contradictory to itself, so I certainly wouldn't expect compatability with the neighbor's paper mountain.Lil4X, those lights are almost identical to the ones fitted to my car. If all else fails, something like that could no doubt be added to an Elio - but wouldn't it be great if the factory could incorporate the European lighting standards from the outset? I'm sure many folks this side of the Atlantic would like to be in the Elio marketplace, too.
And that only touches on LIGHTING issues! Can you imagine trying to get ALL the mechanical systems legal on more than one continent?
There is a reason they make export and domestic varients of vehicles.