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Daox · 12-03-2009, 12:16 PM

Everything should be a nice smooth transition. Any abrupt changes are going to create turbulence.

For the angle, I'd look at what MetroMPG did with his kamm back. He overlaid a tear drop image over his car to get the ideal shape.

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