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The cost of going Green
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• Buyers of petrol-engined vans should brace themselves for price increases of around 500 if vehicle manufacturers incorporate exhaust catalysts.
The European Parliament has been under strong pressure from environmental groups to support strict new controls on petrol car exhaust emissions, to be phased in from 1993. To meet these standards, manufacturers will be forced to incorporate threeway catalytic converters.
As only a few models on the market are engineered to accept this, the car companies are predicting that prices could increase significantly to cover the cost of developing the installation.
Even if commercial vehicles are given different exhaust emission standards, because so many vans share engines with cars, van buyers will probably be hit by price rises.
Ford and Vauxhall have promised to introduce converter-equipped vehicles before legislation requires it.