Plastic bumpers

[Asimo]

 

Was the Lancia Delta the first car with the now universal body-coloured plastic cover over the bumper?

 

There were a few other cars in the 80s styled to look like they had a plastic one piece. Lancia Gamma for example.

Porsche 928 had squashy mouldings as the bumpers.

Fiat Ritmo had grey plastic covers.

Is anything still made with a simple chromed steel bumper like this?

[Angrydicky]

The Maestro had body coloured bumpers from launch in 1983.

[Partridge]

[Junkman]

THEY IZ BUMBERS YE BUGGAH

 

Interweb sez the first car with moulded plastic bumper is the 1966 Lotus Elan.

Note that numerous sporty yanks were available with body colour urethane bumpers by the late 60s, too.

[Partridge]

I'm suprised it wasn't on something Japanese because they love plastic even more than the French.

[mercrocker]

Forgot about the Elan, I  was thinking Renner 5 like this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for now - probably the Morgan.....

[Asimo]

Interweb sez the first car with moulded plastic bumper is the 1966 Lotus Elan.

 

 

 

1962 Reliant

[willswitchengage]

I'm suprised it wasn't on something Japanese because they love plastic even more than the French.

 

Interior yes but all my cars I've had have been 1990ish and the Jap ones are all metal under the bonnet, Frogs all plastic. Probably why they break

[inconsistant]

I think AngryDicky has it... Body coloured bumpers was one of the many* innovations that the Maestro brought to the market.

 

Some earlier cars had plastic bumpers but not body colour.

[Pillock]

Ironically, the Maestro was one of the first mainstream production cars with placca bumpers, yet it ended production with the Clubman sporting very 70s pressed steel bumpers. Another great example of the British car industry moving forward at negative velocity

[Junkman]

I'm suprised it wasn't on something Japanese because they love plastic even more than the French.

Well, they did go body-colour fairly early, although made from metal

 

 

which consequently flopped big time, hence they quickly facelifted it with guess what!