Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:17:22 -0700 From: "White Flame (aka David Holz)" <white-flame!!!nopsamemove!!!cities.com> Subject: Re: Bumpers are too freaking low!
msummers wrote in message ... >Have any of the genius drivers here ever noticed that when you brake, the >front of a car "dives" to a certain extent directly in proportion to the >degree of braking? The bumper is at a fine height (unless you're going >head to head with a SUV). Just stop driving into people! (If you must, do >as I did and hit them without braking...oops. It was only 25mph, but it >totaled the '95 Jetta) :) However, like I said, I had no traction (driving in rain) thus was not decelerating fast at all. The '87 900 which I smashed does appear to have a slightly higher bumper than my old '83, though. With the '83, I was driving on icy roads in Michigan, and tried to dodge a suddenly stopped car (I didn't brake, so I wasn't nosing down) and my bumper still went under theirs. I only clipped them and broke the plastic cover of my turn signal though, but of course their bumper didn't get anything. White Flame (aka David Holz) http://fly.to/theflame
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