I am forever amazed that what one country thinks is safe and sound, another is convinced will be the end of civilisation as we know it. Those mods look completely ridiculous and won't in truth make the slightest difference (roll hoops aside, maybe) in normal road driving, yet MMC have had to jump through all those hoops to get the car (hopefully) legal for sale.
Just as crazy was the US view that headlamps over 7" in size were going to kill people or something, hence those ugly mods to nicely designed European cars in the 80's and 90's where large lamps were replaced with nasty looking pairs in support of so called safety. Why was it that the American authorities thought the rest of the world were crazy..?! Gotta love Departments of Transport eh?!
