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I prefer steel bumpers, attached with absorption mounts, maybe with a rubber strip on the front of the bumper.
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Yup, that's what the engineers came up with. But the stylists and marketing types had better ideas. Why in the world would we want to sell you a car that can survive a 5mph bump? How many new cars could we ever sell that way?
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