Luxury car, crappy bumper

It must suck to realize you paid $40k + for a car that gets damaged easier than FEMA's reputation.

Quote:
"In one case, a Mercedes-Benz C-class sedan sustained almost $5,500 in damage when hit in its front bumper at a speed of just 6 miles per hour."

Jeez, looking at damage on that Mercedes you would think Britney Spears had taken an umbrella to it.

Back in the 1980's cars' front bumpers had to absorb at least a 15 mph force before it transfered any damage to the rest of the cars. In the 90's the law was watered down to only 5 mph to make the cars lighter, cheaper to produce, and to integrate the bumpers behind the body panels. But the fact that luxury cars like this one can't stand up to 1 mph of force more is pretty bad.

And its not just Benz that has this issue, this CNN article also listed the high damage amounts in low speed collisions from cars like Saab, Audi and Lincoln.