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Old 10-22-2009, 11:38 AM   #48 (permalink)
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Anyone who knows a thing or two about aerodynamics will tell you dimples do not scale up to work on a car. An 11% increase in FE at 65 mph is more or less between 15 to 20% reduction in drag, that's way too much for not having been universally accepted in the past.
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