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In the opposite direction, my friend, an engineer who helps design engines for a living talks about how the government pressing them to be more and more efficient is the only reason he and his coworkers even have jobs. He says engine manufacturers would be more than happy to just continually pump out 30 year old designs otherwise.

>>donatj+(OP)
Interestingly that actually does happen in the motorcycle world

For example Suzuki still sells the DRZ400/DR650 bikes new in the US and both haven't been updated in like 20 years other than color changes

The rumor is they are grandfathered in so they can't do any changes otherwise they'd have to pass modern emissions rules