Tegger wrote:
> Leftie <No@Thanks.net> wrote in news:S5R4m.17226$Kn1.4567@newsfe09.iad:
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>> That design was why I chose a Civic Si over a VW Golf in '86. (The
>> VW salesman cheerfully explained the Golf's lack of a 5MPH bumper:
>> "That's what the collision insurance is for!") And it survived at
>> least one significant impact unscathed.
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> Except that Elle's Civic has a 2.5mph bumper, whihc kind of undermines your
> apparent point. Seems to have survived this incident just fine.
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The design is nearly the same. The Golf had, near as I can tell, a
"0.5MPh bumper."