Does Canada have provision for Low Volume manufacturers?
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There are many American Kit Car companies because for the longest time, as I understand it, low volume manufacturing in the US is saddled by stringent safety, emissions, and all sorts of legal standards that only big manufacturers can ever hope to pass, what with their R&D budgets.

Solution: Make a parts kit that the DIY-er can put together themselves. Because whilst low volume car manufacturing is effectively discouraged by law, homebuilts and customs are part of American culture. Kit Cars then can sort of circumvent the stringent motor vehicle safety and emissions laws by selling only "parts" that the home mechanic puts together themselves.

This stands in contrast with the UK, where specialty, low volume car manufacturing is protected and cherished cottage industry. They really value craftsmen tooling inside their sheds, underneath rain battered shingles. (a trope James May, Clarkson, and Hammond used a lot).

Now, the US is introducing (or has introduced???) this law about low volume manufacturing. There's problems with implementation and what not, but as I understand it, it will happen.

related articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Vo...rs_Act_of_2015
https://autoweek.com/article/car-new...cle-safety-act
https://autoweek.com/article/classic...ernment-delays

This will allow what used to be strictly Kit Car manufacturers to market complete running cars... or at least more of them.

But then I looked at Canadian Kit Car Companies, and they seem almost nonexistent??

If anything, what I found was a manufacturer of actual complete replicas - NOT A KIT! A complete running car.
http://intermeccanica.com/athird.net/
So, a question, being Commonwealth, is Canadian law closer to the UK recognition of small volume manufacturing? Has Canada always had a provision for small volume manufacturing? Are we more welcoming to that idea? And that the only reason we haven't got a huge cottage industry of small volume manufacturers like in the UK is cultural and perhaps demographic (maybe we just don't have the population for it). How do you register Intermeccanica cars?