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Originally Posted by Arragonis
I believe some of these changes are also due to the raising of the bonnet (hood) to cater for pedestrian safety - allowing some empty space between the top of the engine and the hood.
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There needs to be 165mm (page 33) clearance to engine and all other hard objects behind the bonnet and bumber if I remember correctly (worst case scenario). If you want to educate yourself take a look at this:
http://www.euroncap.com/files/Euro-N...7e3c73aee9.pdf
That gives the guidelines what cars should look like if you want to get 5 star rating. That is also one of the biggest reasons why cars of the same era looks pretty similar. You are not able to many things differently or you wont get 5 stars in the crash tests.
That is also one of the reasons why cars aero will get even worse due to pedestrian safety! If you crash into living pedestrian at 50-60 km/h does he or she have to survive? Lots of things have already went wrong if you hit human at that speed.
I think you could save more people by making cars more aerodynamic and have less CO2 and other fumes to the air!.