Would it be possible to create 'better' cars than exist with the VIN rule followed?[/b]
The same exact question we've asked a myriad of times over the years. No one has yet to come up with a reasonable example.
Your Miata example has come the closest. But, as baffling as it may seem, it implies to me that the chassis are the same and that the differences - perceived or otherwise - are likely in installed equipment. But it seems the chassis are more likely than not interchangeable.
And I assume everyone knows, down to this exacting detail, what came on, under and inside every iteration of every model of every car - right?[/b]
We each know about our own cars. But, what you're really asking is "...can
all of us know
all of the details of
all cars, such that we would know when someone was cheating"?
The answer to that is, of course, "no". Certainly no more than we do about the mechanical equipment we're supposed to self-police. If a significant performance potential exists with a swapped chassis, we'd have no way to identify it, and in fact someone could be using that
right now. Therefore, the current VIN rule is totally unenforceable, even less so than the proposed change.
I'll be redundant and say it again: no one has come up with even one reasonable example of where this proposed rule would provide a performance advantage and encourage cheating. And, no one has come up with how we could stop that cheating if it were being done today. This resistance to such a change is clearly becoming nothing more than entrenched ideals of "the way things have always been done", sprinkled with a touch of "it will be used to create a model that didn't exist". Yet, no one can provide examples to support this case. They rely on the entrenched existence of the rule with no logical way to support it, deferring to fear and the unknown to resist change.
Let's let these ideals whither away and change the rule to benefit the category as a whole.
I'll say it again, loud and clear, for the fourth or fifth time publicly on this forum: if I wrap that little egg into a little rounder ball, I'm going to replace that chassis with one from a easier-to-find hardtop Nissan NX1600. Well, actually, I'm going to remove each piece of the 1600, one by one, and install them in the NX2000, one by one. They are the same parts. This replacement cycle will happen to such a degree that all the parts, except the VIN plate, will be replaced, one by one.
And that's legal to the rules. It may LOOK like I'm taking all the 2000 mechanical parts out and installing them in a 1600 chassis, but I'm ACTUALLY doing is taking used identical 1600 parts and installing them on the 2000. Including the roof, floor pan, firewall, frame rails, rear body section...etc.
I challenge you to prove otherwise...
