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Old 04-10-2011, 11:30 PM   #68 (permalink)
Pendragon
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Originally Posted by dieselbeetle View Post
Hey man, just wanted to say good luck with the beetle. I drive a new beetle that I'm currently aeromodding for my engineering class. I'll be putting up the pics when I'm done. Look forward to seeing your progress.
Here is a diesel VW Beetle which used some fairly practical aero mods to clean up the back end flow. You might want to take a look at it for your own project.

It was covered in a number of articles such as this one which raised the interesting question of what the OEMs could do if a back yard project could accomplish so much.

There is, of course, VW's BlueMotion project which utilizes some surprisingly simple vehicle modifications to help out the drive train which is the star of the effort.

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P.S. My personal favorite is the Opel Eco-Speedster project.

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