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MetroMPG · 01-15-2008, 08:29 PM

It may not need one as much as this Prius did.

It's not so much an issue of being able to look up & see the hood, as it is directing airflow more cleanly past the bits of the car that stick down below the bottom edge of the front bumper.

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