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A vehicle with a front fascia and a decorative badge integrated with the fascia. A rear surface of the badge is attached to a front portion of the fascia. The portion of the fascia to which the badge is attached is the badge mounting region, and the fascia's portion surrounding the badge mounting re

A vehicle with a front fascia and a decorative badge integrated with the fascia. A rear surface of the badge is attached to a front portion of the fascia. The portion of the fascia to which the badge is attached is the badge mounting region, and the fascia's portion surrounding the badge mounting region is the fascia surrounding region. A radar system mounted behind the fascia emits radar beams in forward direction, which are intercepted by the fascia and the badge in the badge mounting region, and by the fascia, in the fascia surrounding region The rear surface of the fascia in the badge mounting region is indented the amount of the badge's average thickness, and the cumulative average thickness of the badge and the fascia material in the badge mounting region remains uniform throughout, equal to the average thickness of the fascia in the fascia surrounding region.

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1. A front fascia for a vehicle, the vehicle including a forward facing radar system emitting radar beams that pass through the front fascia, the front fascia comprising a decorative badge attached to a front surface of the fascia at a badge mounting region, the badge being positioned such that at l

1. A front fascia for a vehicle, the vehicle including a forward facing radar system emitting radar beams that pass through the front fascia, the front fascia comprising a decorative badge attached to a front surface of the fascia at a badge mounting region, the badge being positioned such that at least a portion of the radar beams pass through the badge;wherein the badge mounting region is indented such that a cumulative thickness of the badge and badge mounting region traversed by the radar beams passing through the badge and badge mounting region remains substantially uniform across the badge mounting region. 2. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the cumulative average thickness of the badge and the badge mounting region remains uniform throughout. 3. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge is heat staked or mechanically attached with clips to the front fascia. 4. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the front surface of the badge has decorative protrusions and depressions provided at specific locations thereon, and the rear surface of the fascia is indented at locations substantially aligning with the locations where the badge has protrusions, to maintain a uniform cumulative average thickness of the material of the badge and the fascia intercepting the transmitted radar beams, in the badge mounting region. 5. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge's front surface has slight plan view sweep to parallel the leading edge or forward facing sweep of the radar beam cone. 6. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the cumulative average thickness of the badge and the fascia in the badge mounting region depends at least upon the composing material of the badge. 7. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge is composed of a material with a substantially high transmission coefficient for electromagnetic radio waves. 8. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge is substantially composed of plastic material. 9. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge is coated with a substance of low relative electric permittivity, preferably in the range of 5 to 8. 10. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge is coated with an illuminating plastic film or a vaporized metallic film. 11. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge is coated with an enhanced specular reflector material (ESR) layer with a substantially high reflectivity in the visible wavelength region. 12. The front fascia of claim 1, wherein the badge's front surface has water-tight characteristics, thus preventing the accumulation of any film of water therein. 13. A front fascia for a vehicle, the vehicle including a forward facing radar system emitting radar beams that pass through the front fascia, the front fascia comprising a decorative badge attached to the fascia at a badge mounting region, the badge the badge including a front piece attached to a front surface of the badge mounting region, and a rear piece attached to a rear surface of the badge mounting region, front piece and the rear piece being in registration with another and the badge being positioned such that at least a portion of the radar beams pass through the badge;wherein a cumulative thickness of the badge and badge mounting region traversed by the radar beams passing through the badge and badge mounting region remains substantially uniform across the badge mounting region. 14. The front fascia of claim 13, wherein the front piece has a front surface, and a rear surface attached to the fascia's front surface, and the rear piece has a rear surface, and a front surface attached the fascia's rear surface. 15. The front fascia of claim 14, wherein the front surface of the front piece, and the rear surface of the rear piece, have decorative protrusions and depressions provided at different locations thereon, in a manner that each protrusion within the front piece substantially aligns with a depressions within the rear piece, and each depression within the front surface substantially aligns with a protrusion within the rear piece, to form a corresponding protrusion depression pair, and to maintain a constant overall thickness of the badge and the fascia intercepting the emitted radar beams, in the badge mounting region. 16. The front fascia of claim 15, wherein in each protrusion depression pair, the protrusion and the depression have similar surface profiles. 17. The front fascia of claim 13, wherein the cumulative average thickness of the badge and the fascia in the badge mounting region, depends at least upon the composing material of the badge. 18. The front fascia of claim 13, wherein the badge is substantially composed of plastic material. 19. The front fascia of claim 13, wherein the badge is coated with one of an illuminating plastic film, a vaporized metallic film, and an enhanced specular reflector material layer with a substantially high reflectivity in the visible wavelength region. 20. A front fascia for a vehicle, the vehicle including a forward facing radar system emitting radar beams that pass through the front fascia, the front fascia comprising a decorative badge attached to the fascia at a badge mounting region, the badge being positioned such that at least a portion of the radar beams pass through the badge;wherein a cumulative thickness of the badge and badge mounting region traversed by each radar beam passing through the badge and badge mounting region is substantially the same.