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I am sure that everyone has seen the little "flip" at the end of the roof line of the Prius and the shade style spoilers at the top of the rear window on a Mazda 3'and a variety of cars.
It would be interesting to see what extending the flip on a Prius and adding some fences would do either in the computer or in some coast down tests on the car.
About the Bonneville car, I would say that it is a fair guess that the front air dam settled the car at speed and reduced the air getting under the car. The side plates, I am sure, did much the same thing...they have been used on a variety of race cars until their use was banned.
Honda has a pretty clean looking belly pan on the Civic Hybrid.
I can not help but wonder if it would mount up on the regular Civic. I may just have to post a Q over on some of the Honda forums.
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