I figure either bumper will be useless (in the regard of protecting from all dammage) in an accident, but having no front bumper makes me uneasy since, in a very very light accident I'd get dammage on the nose panel and the upper front whereas any kind of bumper would have probably stopped it from happening. Plus, swapping for Euro ones is more or less still sort of original, but the CSL look is obviously wrong on a USA CS. It _does_ look darn cool though : )