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Old 05-24-2011, 04:22 PM   #21 (permalink)
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some vents might be to aid cooling. since viewing this thread i'm looking with a little more attention to these areas and only today i noticed on i think a mazda 5 mpv that the "fake" airscoop on one side as actually open and had a little radiator behind it that vented into the wheelwell at the back... i suppose this is for the airco.
but it created an interesting tension between the left "fake" scoop and the right functional one.
this is largely off topic but what i mean to say is that not every vent is an "air curtain" and might be for just styling or cooling, and i think on the subaru it's likely one of those

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