Re: US bumpers=safer! was Re: US bumpers=ugly

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>From: Mash <type53@yahoo.com>
>To: Jeffrey Lowe <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com>, scirocco-L@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: US bumpers=safer! was Re: US bumpers=ugly
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:20:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
>--- Jeffrey Lowe <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Neal Tovsen <sixteen.volt@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > I've become a huge euro bumper snob, too.
> > > There is NO WAY I'm ever going back to US bumpers.
> >
> >
> > It's all about taste and the desire to be different,
> > and not being concerned with safety. That extra
> > couple
> > of inches just might make the difference between
> > totaled and just needing new bumpers.
>
>I'm not a bumper snob, but . . .
>
>In a serious accident, I don't think the bumpers will
>make any difference - they will just move with the
>"crumple" zone. The main advantage of the so-called 5
>mph bumpers is in parking lots . . .
>
>BTW, I've been rear-ended three times in a Scirocco
>over my illustrious career  :0
>
> > > this is what they're *supposed* to look like,
> >
> > Yeah, tell that to some of those Euro listers
> > converting their headlights to U.S. style.
>
>Some models in Europe came with "US Style" headlights,
>like the MK2 Scirocco GTi (which lasted only a few
>years before being replaced in the line up by the
>Scirocco GTX (8V and 16V). So "US style" headlights
>are not that weird in Europe . . .
>
>To me it's a matter of taste - go with what YOU like,
>not with the "consensus"
>
>;-)
>
>
>=====
>Mark Peele
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