homologated

This includes the engine, the wheels and the main chassis monocoque (the latter is homologated at the beginning of the season).

All modifications to the car (in most, if not all EU countries) need to be homologated (eg.

The new 1.6l V6 are more expensive than the previous generation of 2.4l V8's (which were homologated for 10 years).

Every part on the car has to be homologated and they'll only homologate things that are within all safety/noise/etc regulation.

The Hybrid Systems for LMPs have to be homologated at the start of the year which prevents development of them during the year.

Much lower burden to get regulatory approval if the fundamentals are Homologated already.

This being non-homologated makes it even more pointless with that goal in mind.

The power train was homologated for the season at the end of February, so the design was finalised prior to the third pre-season test.

Obviously a car with that behavior would never have been homologated.

Companies that homologated IE6 took almost a decade to transition.

Last year I bought homologated Philips LED bulbs for my car to replace crappy incandescent bulbs and the car failed the inspection.

We have homologated Chinese EVs here in Europe.

For whatever reason, the industry term for the certification is "Homologation" (1) But yes, the vehicles which aren't on sale typically haven't been homologated.

„Intelligent” speed assistant becomes mandatory for any new model homologated in the EU from next year.

Chassis homologation caused a lot of teams problems in 2011 during the "f-duct" episodes due to teams having to find all sorts of clumsy workarounds to accommodate the ducting for the device without having designed space and openings for it in the homologated chassis.