6 Dec
2008
6 Dec
'08
2:17 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Really? I'm unaware of the differences in the UK
model, but the US
model has a 3/8" thick shaped steel bumper on the front and back, none
of that "cover it over with a piece of flimsy plastic cosmetic bumper
crap that cracks and caves in if you look at a car bumper the wrong
way" it also has a 5/8" thick skid plate underneath - very important
so as not to damage the undercarriage when going over another vehicle ;-)
Precisely. In even a very low-speed shunt, all the force is transmitted
to the soft squashy people inside. You end up with dead people with no
visible injuries, and no recognisable internal organs.
Never mind that they're made out of crappy flimsy metal - my first
experience of a Hummer H2 was watching the front half being winched onto
a low loader, while the paramedics hosed what was left of the rear seat
passengers out of the back half a couple of hundred yards away. The
police were taking the details of the people in the Renault Megane that
had hit it amidships...
Gordon