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Old 05-01-2008, 09:15 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Evil Pumpkin - '08 Scion xD RS 1.0 #1633
90 day: 35.45 mpg (US)

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After all this reading I thought about this ... The gap between truck cab and trailer is quite large and no doubt impacts efficiency. What if at highway speeds the fifth wheel was able to draw the trailer closer to the cab thus eliminating or reducing the gap and improving MPG's. I guess a technology very similar to the porsche tails or the VW turbo wing, just on a larger scale.
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