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Originally Posted by Quentin
It distributes the force over the body versus cutting your knees out from under you and giving an effect of your head and upper body whipping into the hood. Pop up headlights just created a really small area to apply that force.
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Except that's not always the case. 2 weeks ago leaving a football game I saw a pedestrian get hit by a Ford Explorer. Explorer was just idling along, less than 5 mph. Because of the vehicle height the person hit the front and then was propelled down onto the ground. I was shocked how bad it was given the speed. Had it been a low slung sports car he would have landed on the hood and that would have been the end of it
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The only way the 86/BRZ get away with such a low hood is because of the flat engine. This lets them build a crumple zone between where the body impacts the hood and any actual hard part of the engine under the hood. If the 86/BRZ has an in-line engine, the hood would be 6” taller.
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BRZ's hood height is dictated more by the height of the strut towers than the engine height.
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