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Old 06-01-2011, 07:01 PM   #3 (permalink)
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focus1.6uk -

May favorite mod is the roof extension. The ever-so-slight slight downward angle to the horizontal section makes sense. The "crisp" edges going down the sides of the hatchback remind me of the crisp edge details on current-gen Prius :



Another interesting detail in the above picture is that it has side skirts, but not flush to the side of the car. From what I can tell they *look* like they are aligned with the inner wall of the tire (look behind front tire in picture).

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I think on AeroHead's truck his side skirts start out inside the front tires but flair out to cover the rear tires.

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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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