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Comment by Arainach

14 hours ago

In practice, no, you can't. Certainly not without enormous costs such as mandatory regular vehicle inspections.

I don't think "enormous costs" is a strong argument here. The annual MOT is usually under £50, and that includes a fairly comprehensive roadworthiness check and emissions check. A stronger argument would be that a car owner could change some settings on their car specially to pass the emissions check, and then set them back to dirty afterwards each year.