Our new Honda Odyssey has about the same frequency response as my old Boston Acoustic speakers!
That's kool if you use it in that manner. Too many just put them on just to look bad-ass.The bumper dramatically increases the approach angle, provides "armor" around delicate vitals (radiator, lights) from rocks, branches, etc. It is directly bolted to the frame and allows for solid recovery points that can hold the entire weight of the vehicle (6,000lbs unloaded) and hold the 9,000 lbs winch for recovering the vehicle or recovering other vehicles. Also protects the vehicle from animal strikes (deer) on dark dirt roads. Also minimizes damage in traffic accidents.
Not to pedestrians...Also minimizes damage in traffic accidents.
Or almost anything else for that matter. Luckily I'm pretty sure my car could just slide underneath it and (with adequate escape velocity) come out the other side relatively unscathed. Until the roll cage is fitted however, I wouldn't want to find out for sure.Not to pedestrians...
I tagged a deer or a elk at ~3:00 am one morning as I was returning to Vancouver and crossing the Coquihalla Pass. I had the cruise control set pretty high and voila a furry light brown beast jumps over the concrete barrier and starts galloping up the road directly in front of me. I had just enough time to hit the brakes but not enough time to slow down until after I scooped it's ass right up and sent it flying over the car. A 97 Sunfire GT that I bought new about 4 months earlier. There was brown hair stuck in the paint of the hood nose and the paint was slightly marred but otherwise the front end of the car was in fantastic condition and the windshield had not a mark on it. So I pulled over into a lit rest stop area to assess the vehicle and like a minute later a guy pulls in with a Acura and he had a broken front drivers light assembly. He hit something too. Perhaps the same animal; I have no idea. So yes, a animal can be scooped over a car at speed if things go just right.Or almost anything else for that matter. Luckily I'm pretty sure my car could just slide underneath it and (with adequate escape velocity) come out the other side relatively unscathed. Until the roll cage is fitted however, I wouldn't want to find out for sure.
Not to pedestrians...
When a 6,000 lbs vehicle and a deer collide, it is never going to end well for the deer. May as well limit the damage to the vehicle. It is a lot harder to get a deer to wear a helmet or drive a car. My friend is a police officer and hit a deer on a rural road in his cruiser while on duty. It nearly killed him when it came through the windshield even after it had hit the push bumper on his vehicle. He ended up with a broken hand from the steering wheel airbag. It's not like people are out there trying to hit a deer or other wild life. It just happens in rural areas.Does it also protect the deer from vehicle strikes?
Wow, you got lucky. Glad to hear it ended well. I had a pickup truck hit a deer at 60mph right in front of me on the highway once. Completely demolished the truck. I was 17 and it scared the sh!t out of me. Samething, about 5am before sunrise on my way to crew/rowing practice in the Santa Cruze mountains.I tagged a deer or a elk at ~3:00 am one morning as I was returning to Vancouver and crossing the Coquihalla Pass. I had the cruise control set pretty high and voila a furry light brown beast jumps over the concrete barrier and starts galloping up the road directly in front of me. I had just enough time to hit the brakes but not enough time to slow down until after I scooped it's ass right up and sent it flying over the car. A 97 Sunfire GT that I bought new about 4 months earlier. There was brown hair stuck in the paint of the hood nose and the paint was slightly marred but otherwise the front end of the car was in fantastic condition and the windshield had not a mark on it. So I pulled over into a lit rest stop area to assess the vehicle and like a minute later a guy pulls in with a Acura and he had a broken front drivers light assembly. He hit something too. Perhaps the same animal; I have no idea. So yes, a animal can be scooped over a car at speed if things go just right.
When I was at university, one of my pals used to rallye a very well prepared Mk 1 Lotus Cortina. One night, on a special stage in Wales, he hit a cow that had strayed out of a field. He must have been doing about 80mph, and the car was totally wrecked. The cow didn't look too good either!My brother hit a deer and it wrote the car off and came into the car through the windscreen.
He is in rural Scotland but there are even a lot of wild deer here in Oxfordshire and I have had several near misses.
It also significantly changes the timing of your airbag deployment, in other words it is a severe detriment to your own Highway safety and could kill you.The bumper dramatically increases the approach angle, provides "armor" around delicate vitals (radiator, lights) from rocks, branches, etc. It is directly bolted to the frame and allows for solid recovery points that can hold the entire weight of the vehicle (6,000lbs unloaded) and hold the 9,000 lbs winch for recovering the vehicle or recovering other vehicles. Also protects the vehicle from animal strikes (deer) on dark dirt roads. Also minimizes damage in traffic accidents.
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Your point is correct, accept this bumper is attached before the crush zones and keeps the airbag deployment sensors in tact. They have DOT clearance and were evaluated for just that scenario and engineered to address this potential fault.It also significantly changes the timing of your airbag deployment, in other words it is a severe detriment to your own Highway safety and could kill you.
The SAAB version of the Subaru WRX wagon back when GM owned SAAB and a percentage of Subaru. I had a 1978 Turbo SAAB hatchback and a 2002 WRX wagon. I always thought the SAAB 9-5 was better looking than my WRX, although the bug-eyed WRX grew on me.
It's amusing how the new electric cars still have the face of a ICE car. At what point will that face be left behind or even bettered...Your wife's next car? Developed and made by women!
https://www.timesnownews.com/auto/f...-developing-autonomous-tech-for-the-ev/530887
https://fordauthority.com/2020/10/f...tom-mach-e-assembled-entirely-by-women-video/
Yeah it is funny. The C5 mostly got rid of it. Most of the air is let in under the lip. Those small vents do contribute a little. But could have been filled in and it still would look okay.It's amusing how the new electric cars still have the face of a ICE car. At what point will that face be left behind or even bettered...
The helll you say.Not even sure I would enjoy it in real life
One of my all time favourites, the wing and the long front were homologation specials for racing the "normal" Roadrunner had a conventinal front grille and was about 30" shorter (and probably ran cooler )Another one that has a little venting, but most of the air is let in under the lip out of sight.