>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, paul cooper wrote: > >> That is soo funny .....................................typical Jap crap > >Well, sort of...I think that's a Geo Storm, which was a GM/Isuzu >collaboration. If it'a a 1988-1991, The "Geo Storm" of those years is a bagdge-engineered Toyota Sprinter. Which is part of the Corolla range. Nothing tinny about these. But the bumpers are purely cosmetic, as they are in most modern cars. >Looks like someone forgot that bumpers on modern cars are not structural. >Not that the tinfoil bumpers on our Vanagons are much better, but they >tend to just assume new and interesting shapes instead of pulling loose >entirely. My Nissan Skyline R32 had plastic bumpers which did NOT come off in an accident, as I found when I centerpunched some moron in a Mazda Familia (323) 4WD. One solid plastic bumper with a piece of railway iron behind it! -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand 64 (3) 473-8863 <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut -------------------------------------- A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? |
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