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Originally Posted by CFECO
To each his own! I am a car guy first, and EcoModder second. What ever I drive I'd like to make it the most efficient I can, but not necessarily chop, cut, graft, and modify until it matches "The Template". What a boring life if we all drove around in templates. If this was my car, and I wished to Mod it, I think a 6.5 turbo diesel with some tall gears, would be easily capable of 25 mpg with very good performance. Someone should wind tunnel one of these just for the heck of it.
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It has been done. In fact the article is posted somewhere on this forum.
The wind tunnel testing ( with images ) was done to prove whether or not the horizontal areas of the cars tail provided any lift at speed.
I think Aerohead posted the article.