One advantage of an angled front bumper is it acts as a wedge to lift deer over the top of your car with minimal damage to the front of your car when you run into one. Instead of a flat bumper absorbing the collision energies, the angled bumper redirects the collision energies upward. I've had this happen twice with the aerocivic, two deer collisions at 45mph, two deer lifted over the top of my car with only a slight dent in the hood and a cracked headlight lens to show for it.
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