... without some douche jamming his beemer into the space and negating the effect.
Ultimate asshole machine, is what those POS are. That advertising plan is behind a lot of stupid behavior and its concomitant road rage.
I dig the push bar idea.
However, i think upgrading your suspension to iPD performance stuff is your easiest route. Best to avoid collisions, than beef up your car for being in one. At some point though, there's just going to be no way to avoid collision...
This, that idiots hit me, is why I have Volvos in the first place. I used to be into VWs, had some sorta fancy buses and two hotrod Ghias, one of which used to piss off some of those beemer boys.
But I was hit 5 times in two years, all 100% their fault, I collected every time from their insurance. The last one near killed me, a drunk woman in a Mercury hit me in my 71 bus headon, so hard that I cannot remember the wreck, but there were 10 eyewitnesses including a state cop.
Last year a little old lady, about 75, hit the gas instead of the brakes and Tboned my fave 90 740. I had no chance whatsoever, only hit the gas which made the hit in the middle instead of taking out the front, which in its way was a good thing as I drove home and saved all the recent parts.
So I was at a bud's body shop just visiting sometime later (after the first series) where there was a nice 140 that had been Tboned on the right, caved the side in two feet right in the middle. All the other doors, trunk, hood, all windows etc, were fine, and the car still ran fine. I decided then that this was the way to go.
And very much the above with the suspension mods, good brakes etc.