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mindmachine said:paule23 said:Is there any particular reason why UK owners have the option to turn the REX on or off, and US owners do not? Seems very strange to me.....
The Law is called CARB
So those of us who bought the Rex are penalized and left with an inferior arrangement, plus we are subsidizing people who buy BMW gas hogs.
Well, it's actually worse than that: CARB is the California Air Resources Board, a politically appointed board of Gov. Moonbeam friends--and it gets worse--they employ nothing but zealots as staffers. Actually, BMW won one major design trait over them in proposed regulation, but I'm sure they/we paid with some trade-off elsewhere because the Pureaucrats were not amused.
As for your comment about "subsidizing" gas guzzler BMW CAFE standards, that's not exactly true either. FWIW, this is my first BMW in 35 years that did NOT have a gas guzzler (several thousand $$) tax built into its sticker. So, I am looking at my federal tax credit as merely recouping some amount of those past-paid taxes. But I will note that my extant 545 sport 6-speed still AVERAGES 19.8 mpg around town and easily scores 23mpg on trips, INCLUDING the ethanol 10% efficiency penalty. Not bad for a big honking V8...and dramatically better than most US cars/vans chugging around on several fewer cylinders (albeit on Regular grade).