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Originally Posted by bluesport
... if european emission standards are implemented in australia then there may not be anything resembling today's supercars to watch.
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Your point is wrong. If we adopt european emissions we can/will get what is produced to meet european standards - if there are no supercars produced in europe we won't get them (duh), If they
are produced, we might/can get them. In this scenario, we are in lockstep with europe.
Only if we adopt tougher emissions standards will there be an issue - the racing cars may get a pass (off-road use), but their production counterparts may not be able to be sold here, impacting manufacturer interest.
You also are delusional in thinking of the current cars as 'supercars'. They are tube frame, largely spec racecars, bearing a passing resemblance to certain production cars.
However that fact offers some future opportunities, but multi-manufacturer support is probably not one of them. The GT3/4 model is effectively the inverse of those opportunities/limitations.
If we/you want big V8s, there is only one way forward - the tube-frame model, moving further away from contemporary production cars as time goes by. I don't see a problem here, they will be so irrelevant to what people are buying/driving that the manufacturers may not be concerned with 'replicars', certainly there will be enough unconcerned, or concerned enough to only require licensing of the design IP, to provide some variety. After all, it not like we have an overload of variety now ....