VEHICLE BUMPER ASSEMBLY

A bumper assembly for a motor vehicle has a first bumper subassembly having a first cross bar and two first U-section crash boxes spaced apart from one another and each fastened by a respective outer end to a respective one of two regions of the cross bar close to ends thereof and each fastened by a respective inner end to the structure of the vehicle, Each crash box is of U-section with a web bridging two side walls, and each crash box further has at least at the respective outer end a transversely projecting integral tab that is folded over from the web and with which the crash box is fastened to the cross bar.