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Old 04-25-2009, 09:34 PM   #42 (permalink)
PA32R
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LR3 - '06 Land Rover LR3 HSE
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Originally Posted by basjoos View Post
Just aeromod your car to the point to where drafting produces little improvement on your mileage, then the whole drafting/safety discussion is rendered a non-issue. If all cars were shaped like mine, then drafting would be irrelevant to improving mileage.
Only in the sense that a, for example, 3% increase in gas mileage is smaller in absolute terms of fuel savings per mile driven for your car than for mine. But driving in air that's, again for example, 5% less dense during drafting will have the same per cent lowering of your aerodynamic drag as it does for mine.

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