What happened to hood ornaments?

>>17850690
Pedestrian safety standards and insurance claims.

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>>17850690
They became associated with road disasters like this. You can still see the hood ornament base left after the ornament itself no doubt fell off.

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>>17850690
Niggers stealing them

>>17850719
looks better than new soap bar econoboxes will. they're gonna look so awful in a few decades roflmao

>>17850728
Not quite nigger proof

>>17850690
Especially the Jaguar had the tendency to bite pedestrians.
So they were removed.

>>17850728
Came to post this>>17850728

>>17850728
NO BULLY THE ORNAMENT!

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Nothing. You can still get them.

They look dated to the average peter pleb, which is 99% of drivers

>>17851145
Benz and Rolls are possibly the only producers left.

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They don't really work so well on the obese, angry cars of today.

>>17851247
Must be handy on the barge sized sedans to know where the nose is exactly though!

>>17851258
Never really put much thought into it like that. I always park so far away from everybody else and everything.

>>17850690
muh pedestrians, think of the children ;_;

>>17850696
>Ornaments and pop-ups are dangerous.
>Cars just get bigger and bigger.

>>17851275
Alright, you have a 20-year-old car and a 3-year-old car. Which is going to break more bones if you punch the body?

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>>17850728
Man in suit
>stroke lightly
>ornament does a hide

Nigger
>quickly grab ornament with all your might
>motor isn't able to retract several hundred pounds of sheer nigger pulling
>ornament snaps leaving just a piece of mangled metal to be retracted
>motor now makes a loud whining noise
>land barge is at the dealer for a month because the entire retracting assembly needs to be replaced

>>17851380
>underestimate german mechanism
>nigger'd end up with broken fingers, or fingers jammed stuck inside there.

Ive tried it on my rented rolls royce, i gripped it so hard as it went down the force by the pulling ofthe badge is too much you would end up breaking ur fingers if u didnt let go lol or most likely ur fingers would get pulled down with it so in other words its pretty tough as expected

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>>17851406
>2017
>cars being able to sever fingers by design
What the fuck.

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>>17851420
I dare you to try it. Enjoy your broken fingers.
It pulls it in pretty fast and with a lot of force!

Nig nurse would say like lol damn thing said "YEET boi you woulda thought"

>>17851406
Can confirm
Plus the darn thingy is polished so real slippery

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>>17851441
>Nig nurse would say like lol damn thing said "YEET boi you woulda thought"

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>>17851446
Well, you underestimate german mechanism and get a consequence

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>>17851460
image fagmilliar

>>17851441
>Nigger
>Literally snapping it off with a crowbar.
You're not going to try prying an ornament free with just your hand in the first place. They're going to get a tire iron and bash the front end if it retracts. So it's still a stupid feature.

EU regulations

Personally I think EU regulations are basically communism