yeah, it may or may not be a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side", but our bumpers here are much larger for crash standards upheld by the federal government (and coincidently not nearly as aesthetically pleasing as the euro versions)

for example....

here's what our 99-2004 looks like:





as you can see our bumpers stick out much farther and have rub-strip treatments rather than being nice and smooth like the 98-01 you guys had

then in 2005 we got a "facelift" which changed just the front end a bit to this:



I personally bought an st170 euro facelift front and 98 smooth rear and had mine trated like this for a while (until someone backed into it in a parking lot and wrecked the whole front end):



So I used the insurance money to buy the RS bumpers and that was the start of this build I believe I'll be the first red RS replica in the states.