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Old 02-29-2012, 10:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Non-starter. It adds so much frontal area that you have to push more air out of the way when driving. It only works if you're losing attached flow on the top of the vehicle, and this only very rarely happens on very boxy vehicles.

However, I always encourage people to tuft test their own cars to see the flow in real life. It helps you get a better understanding of it
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