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Old 02-24-2011, 08:58 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mspropst View Post
Anyone know of a place you can see the aerodynamic flow over a car as it is stock? Or is that only something they put on commercials to sell to you? May be a dumb question, but I'm curious as to where the aerodynamic problems actually are located at.
Smoke testing like you see in the commercials is pretty much just for pretty pictures.
An SUV will 'look' streamlined in a smoke test, but is actually quite the brick.



Compare it to a car that is actually streamlined :



Looks almost the same doesn't it ?

If you really want to see what the air is doing around your car, you can try tuft testing it like this :

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