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Old 11-22-2011, 06:00 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kach22i View Post
What is that, and what would that look like?
I don't mean to hijack but the view with the smoke filling the wake made me wonder if something like Vekke built for his VW Lupo would work on my Golf. Here is a tuft test of a Vekke-spoiler, or more accurately, a Kamm-back on his Lupo.

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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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