> Also, car manufacturers (and patio furniture manufacturers, for some
> reason) do not like to call them plastics because people have a tendency
> to associate the word with cheap and flimsy polymers like polyethylene
> or polypropylene, so they'll use words like "polymer", "DuraFlex(TM)",
> or "synthetic resin".

Never mind that those cheap and flimsy polymers are exactly what you 
need for something like a car bumper (you want it to bend rather than 
crack or split when deformed). It's also odd how in the past shiny 
glossy plastics were seen as cheap, so everyone applied texture to the 
surfaces to make it look less "plasticy", but now it seems be back in 
fashion to have a high gloss finish (much to the dismay of the plastic 
moulders).

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