Originally Posted by Mdcrossfire

Sorry for your loss. Now we can see that the steel bar in the front runs the full length of the front, plus it wraps around the sides. Lately, I have seen a Honda, Hyundai, and a Kia that had been in accidents where the whole front plastic piece was now gone, exposing what was under it for protection. That steel bar was hollow, like ours, but much thinner, and extremely short.....barely covering the length of the tiny radiator! There was nothing else in the front corner but a plastic sprayer bottle on one of them! If you get hit in one of the front corners, there is nothing to protect you in them. Also, the clear plastic headlight covers were paper thin, as was what was left of the plastic from the front cover! There is a total false sense of security in those vehicles if you crash! Our Crossfires seem to offer much better protection! Compared to the above mentioned newer cars, I recently saw the damage to an early 2000 Buick that bowled over 65 feet of chainlink fence , along with the neighbor's stockade fence. Along the way it grabbed a 20 feet aluminum ladder and folded it in half. The ladder pierced the radiator, but other then that there was no damage to the exterior but a few light scratches from the folded ladder on the hood! The fences looked like a tornado went right down the middle...everything knocked over, shattered etc. The plastic bumper didn 't even crack! I could not imagine what it would have done to the newer, forementioned Japanese or Korean cars!