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cactacea | 1 month ago

No. Tarriffs aside this would be the problem:

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/importing-car

> As a general rule, motor vehicles less than 25 years old must comply with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in order to be imported permanently into the United States.

Without homologation there is 0 chance you'd be able to import and register one of these.

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triceratops|1 month ago

How did Ford's CEO do it?

rootusrootus|1 month ago

Most likely he used a manufacturer R&D exemption to do it. This is fairly common, just usually not as high profile as the CEO.

crazysim|1 month ago

Maybe the same way Steve Jobs did the no plate thing. Maybe he just keeps cycling them. Might even send them to the labs at Ford for destructive analysis after each one is legally done.