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Originally Posted by kwilly
I must be missing something here......What good does padding do on a rollbar when the car is upside down? It's not the padding that keeps the gray matter inside the skull-- it's the rollbar(s).
Or is this really an issue of when your head bangs against the rollbar?
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In the absence of valid statistics, we can do some wild speculating...
These cars don't roll over often, but without a roof (and a pathetic windshield frame) a roll bar might come in handy. In the process of rolling, the significance of smacking your head against the bar is probably small.
Getting rear-ended: Unlikely because these cars are so "visible". On the other hand, the world is full of incompetent drivers.
Spinning out - and backing into something solid. This is probably the most likely whiplash cause. In this case, a padded roll bar would have real value.