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Old 01-15-2011, 10:42 PM   #12 (permalink)
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What are the best places to look for aero improvements on the rear of a staion wagon? Are they too blunt to be very efficient?
Cool wagon Nitro. It's ironic to me that you get the lowered GT style Subaru and here in the states we get a jacked up wagon named after the Australian Outback.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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