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    Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating It?

    If you're an design freak like I am, you'll notice that new cars rolling off the line all the front ends all carry this crappy raised hoodlines, bulbosed or overly blunt snouts look mostly dictated by Euro pedestrian crash safety laws. (Toyota - you wear the crow as the WORST and most putrid offender.)

    So my question is, how is Porsche (and Ferrari, Lambo, Audi R8) with their front ends sharply raked and only a foot off the deck passing compliance?

    Anyone know?

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating It?

    That's a tough one for a sport car.
    Maybe a hood airbag like the one from the new Jaguar XK?
    I don't believe they can rise the car and make the front more bulky ... see the facelifted MINI for the result ...

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating It?

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    Pentium said:
    That's a tough one for a sport car.
    Maybe a hood airbag like the one from the new Jaguar XK?
    I don't believe they can rise the car and make the front more bulky ... see the facelifted MINI for the result ...



    The MINI is a horrendous example of what happens when you let regulators dictate styling.

    On another note, someone just messaged me with the answer.

    The law is place to help prevent a pedestrian's head from hitting the engine block. I mean if you think about, a hood is only about 1 inch or so thick and that's nothing when you drop a 15lbs head on it.

    Of course P, F, and L are carry their engines in the back. So I guess until high speed backing incidents with pedestrians become an issue, we're in the clear.

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating I

    Hmm, interesting. I didn't realize that the engine location dictated the front bumper design.

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating It?

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    Heist said:
    So I guess until high speed backing incidents with pedestrians become an issue, we're in the clear.



    LoL I don't know all the details about the new laws, but I understood that there must be a specific distance between the hood and any hard parts (read engine). Just another advantage of rear- and midengined cars
    Though makes me wonder how the next generation of front-enginded F-cars will look like

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating It?

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    Porsche-Jeck said:
    Quote:
    Heist said:
    So I guess until high speed backing incidents with pedestrians become an issue, we're in the clear.



    LoL I don't know all the details about the new laws, but I understood that there must be a specific distance between the hood and any hard parts (read engine). Just another advantage of rear- and midengined cars
    Though makes me wonder how the next generation of front-enginded F-cars will look like



    thats correct afaik, the main idea is to keep the head of the unlucky pedestrian away from the hard metal parts like the engine.

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating It?

    "The MINI is a horrendous example of what happens when you let regulators dictate styling." - exactly my point, Heist.

    Re: Euro Ped Safety Laws - How's Porsche Beating I

    BTW, I thought that if you get clipped at any speed you're most likely heading for the windshield rather then square on top of the hood?

     
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