Many of us love the effect this has on the moggy's looks. There is a very practical reason, however, for why debumpering is a bad idea.
Take the case study of a certain relation of mine, whom I shall not mention, lest it displease/incriminate them. He drives a rather excellent white 1098 two door, which we all love. One day, whilst driving through an awful village with one of the narrowest "high streets" known to man, a lady driver, ignorant of the width of her crappy eurobox, decided to push past him. Of course, a collision followed. Her rear bumper clipped the moggy's rear bumper as the car's passed each other. The moggy was completely undamaged. Her bumper caught round the pointy bit on the end of the minor's valance, being torn completely off in the process. We all had a good laugh about that.
The second example which supports my point is the way in which the self same rear bumper once knocked down a wall outside an indian takeaway (the wall was too low to see out of the rear window). The bumper was undamaged. Not even a scratch. I doubt the boot floor would stand up to that.
So the next time you consider removing your car's bumpers to "clean up the lines", think about other road users, who may not be as good a driver as you, and think about that low lying wall that you can never seem to see in the rear window. It may save you expensive repairs, one day.
