Excerpt from Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Regulations: Supplement 40; Amendments and Interpretations Issued During 1989 The commenting automobile manufacturers gener ally supported the General Motors Corporation's peti tion for the agency to make a class determination about cost information. General Motors offered an amendment to its original draft limiting cost to manufacturer's cost. Volkswagen suggested that the presumptive determination include future actual as well as estimated cost. Ford asked that the agency craft a presumption that includes the kinds of cost data that the agency generally has withheld. Chrysler Motors Corporation asserted that no distinction should be made between general cost estimates, ranges of costs and specific actual cost data relating to a product because all could be damaging if disclosed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.