IS anybody surprised.
EPA keeps on making emission regulations so tight that it is near impossible to make a reliable long life small engine
Customers refuse to pay a reasonable price so buy the imported mower engines in ever increasing numbers .
Remember Honda exited the the ride on engine market because they refused to down grade their products to the price point that the factories would pay.
Honda push mowers are made all over the world so they may import from one of the other factories.
We get both the US made & the Tiawan made models down here and the EU spec is way better than the US spec
There has been no dealer notices about reduced supply down here so looks like we will be getting the Asian made EU model for now.
Because the conservative party ( called Liberals ) did the same to climatic pollution as your Republicans did to turn it into a Left / Right idology issue we have only gone to tier II where as you lot are on Tier IV and heading into tier V which cannot be met with a carburettor