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Old 11-03-2011, 06:32 PM   #48 (permalink)
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My gut feeling is that raising the roof on the HONDA would 'show' at the gas pump. You would in all likelyhood lose total rearward vision.( you'll notice that Bugatti uses an upright backlight reminiscent of the 1967 Lotus Europa for their Veyron.
For testing purposes on the rear glass, would it be possible to jack up the rear suspension with spacers, to video the change in the tufts? Seems that would be quicker and easier than redoing the bodywork to smoothly raise and fill and seal the back hatch.
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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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