Importation
rules regarding vehicles are very specific: Only those over 25 years in
age may be brought into the United States without compliance to Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). Bringing in vehicles less than
25 years old gets exponentially more complicated,
which is why some importers bend the rules by swapping an earlier VIN
on a later model automobile. Such was the case with this previous
generation Mini Cooper, crushed in a New Jersey wrecking yard last week
at the direction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
As NJ.com reports,
the Mini's destruction was carried out as part of "Operation Atlantic,"
a joint effort between the United States and the United Kingdom
designed to rid the country of dangerous, illegal Minis and Land Rover
Defenders built after 1988.
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