Angie Schmitt calls them “a fashion accessory to convey a sense of aggression.” Who needs this?
For a number of years I have been taking photos of cars and SUVs with big bits of metal mounted on front. I was certain that they were dangerous, but I did not even know what they were even called; in a post about a driver who jumped the sidewalk and maimed five kids, I described them as “an after-market steel thing on front that blocks the shock-absorbing front bumper and probably significantly increased the carnage.”
Totally not intimidating Toronto Police unmarked SUV with push bars on Ossington Ave/ Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0