Zarathustra[H]
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I have no idea what it's like these days but growing up in California in the 80's with ICE it was often cheaper for the manufacturers to make a special CA model exhaust setup (reduced HP and emissions) than to make every vehicle meet those standards.
These days things have changed a lot.
Since California gets a waiver to set their own emissions requirements, a lot of other states who are emissions conscious piggyback on California's requirements, making a much larger market than just California (which is pretty large in and of itself, let's be honest)
This results in the automakers in general just making their entire product offerings California emissions compliant, except for some top end performance models, which they may choose to just not offer there.