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Originally Posted by aerohead
I found the article.It's from 1962.
Ford claimed that the outside rear view mirror increased fuel consumption by 0.05 mpg.It's drag was 1-lb at 65 mph,and over 1,000 miles would cost an additional 7-cents in fuel.
yep! my memory sucks!
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Another more recent study was on the Audi A2 (described in this thread:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-cd-21175.html). Sounds like drag reduction by removing mirrors was 5%, which is not too bad considering a full belly pan reduced drag by 7%.