also, if gm does have to actually increase their prices on cars inorder to somehow compensate the R&D spent to meet these standards, they will continue to lose customers to the japanese (i.e. pilot, highlander etc.), who have met these standards awhile back, but can now once again undercut the domestics in either price or features....i don't think peeps will be 2 happy 2 drop more coin on a suv or the same amt of coin just to see it has less features than before