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MetroMPG · 12-05-2007, 05:42 PM

XFi: don't forget the folding side mirror option.

I deleted my passenger mirror, and installed a folding one on the driver's door, which I leave tucked in on the highway, and deploy for city driving (or congested freeway driving):

Peakster:

Neat video. Too bad about the GS "branding" at the end!

I watched it after you first released it, and recall it was fairly close to the same result I measured on my car: Side mirror drag & FE effect - quantified

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