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Remember Cash for Clunkers?
This is yet another reason why it was pushed. Mid-late 90's/early 2000 cars were too reliable/maintainable without any means to "improve" their data reporting capability.
Push people to buy new cars and increase data collection: win/win.
Uhhhh how old are you? Data collection was not a thing back then. This was before even the first iPhone. The only communications cars had was XM radio. And some satellite safety stuff as well like OnStar.
But anyway, C4C was dual-purpose: