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U.S. blocks $1 million Italian supercar
Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said "Not so fast."
Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe "advanced" airbags, arguing that complying with the rule would have caused "substantial economic hardship," according to documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA denied the request, essentially blocking the car from sale in the U.S., because Pagani failed to show that installing the airbags on the twin-turbocharged 12-cylinder carbon-titanium car would cause the company undue financial strain. Also, the Italian carmaker didn't show that serious efforts had been made to comply, the agency said. U.S. blocks $1 million Italian supercar - Aug. 9, 2011 |
How many kids do you think will be driving in this car? Don't think it will be used as a daily driver to drop off Junior at daycare
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I think at $1,000,000.00 they could afford to put in the proper safety equipment that is required in this country. I am glad to see that at least SOME laws in this country are being upheld!
_________________ Ferrari Killer Steve Must Sell Right Now . |
After reading the post carefully, it says that the company did not meet the
(federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe "advanced" airbags). I would be willing to bet the car has airbags, just not the child-safe "advanced" airbags, whatever those are. Nevertheless, I doubt there will be any children in this car and if I had $1,000,000 to spend on this car....I would be upset. So much for government red tape. |
Interesting. I wonder what they use in Europe where they can drive the Autobahn at 200 mph?
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Well built cars that don't fall apart at 200 MPH plus and at that speed if you have a wreck air bags of any kind really aren't going to do much good.
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I disagree. If I owned this car I would put my son in the passenger seat every chance I could get. I remember when I was a kid how utterly thrilling it was to ride in a really cool car.
At one time or another ... someone let every single one of us ride in a really bada$$ car. If not we would not be car guys today. With the speeds this car is capable of I think it is very important to have the proper safety equipment installed. Just because someone has the money to purchase this car does not mean they have the skills to drive it... safely! _________________ Ferrari Killer Steve Must Sell Right Now . |
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Good point- I do find it ironic since the cars that all caught our attention growing up had NO safety equipment. It the cars had seat belts they probably were not used. Good to see we changed with the times. |
The actual issue is the calibration of the two-stage airbags. This is not uncommon, and can be really tricky to get right. Not a big issue really, as there are only about five of these cars per year slated for the U.S. I'm sure they'll get the calibration right in time to deliver all of the U.S.-bound cars on time.
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