STOMP OUT BODY ABUSE WITH AEV'S NEW JK BUMPER

摘要

Every now and then a company takes an old product and reinvents it in a way that just makes sense. Recently American Expedition Vehicles (AEV) did just that by presenting its new stamped front bumper for Jeep JK Wranglers. You might think that a bumper is a bumper, but what sets this one apart is that it is produced through a stamping technique. Stampings are done with a massive machine that pinches a sheet of flat steel between two molded dies, resulting in a three-dimensional piece. This is how many body panels For automobiles are made, and AEV simply applied this same procedure to some 1/8-inch-thick steel and formed a very fluid-shaped front winch bumper, which when stamped can be as strong as a 1/4-inch flat-plate bumper.