There was a time when American-market cars had big, chunky bumpers, but they've made way for the sleek designs we have now.

The huge bumpers on cars built in much of the 1970s weren't the automakers' own brainstorm. In fact, they fought against them ...

Have you ever called the plastic thing on the front of your car a bumper, nodded, and then realized later that you might've been just half right? Let's fix that without getting too bogged down with ...