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Beauty Vs Practicality

Beauty Vs Practicality

SYF77

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How do you feel when you see VW rims on Skoda?  

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    • Indifferent ...
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    • Owner of the Skoda couldn't find Skoda rims
      5
    • Owner tries to disguise the Skoda as a VW
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In this blog entry, I would like to discuss the popular use of body-coloured plastic for the external car body parts, especially the bumpers. I recalled that back in 1989, my dad bought a metallic blue Toyota Corolla. Folks in my generation would recall that it comes with a matt black front and rear bumpers, at a time when more and more cars come equipped with body-coloured ones. As a little boy, I would tell him,




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another idea won't be reduce the height of the kerks, kerks in uk r not that high here.

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"The driver need not be worried about ugly scratch marks should he carelessly mount the kerb when negotiating a bend in a carpark."

 

A better solution would just simply be... a better driver.

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My FD Civic, designed in 2005, already has a rubber strip that runs the length of the front bumper....

 

Kerbs, high or low, doesn't really matter - it's the angle where the road meets the kerb.

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:angry: For too long, kerbs had brought pain and suffering to car owners. :angry:

 

[pirate] But not anymore! Now's the time to force kerbs to kneel before car owners! [pirate]

 

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