Unless you live in the Atacama desert, you're going to have precipitation to deal with. Needless to say, a second or relocated windshield is going to be hell to keep clean, if you aren't ambitious enough to rig up one or more wipers.
Needless to say, it's a compromise that I don't think is unreasonable to make when a car is used for more than land-speed-record attempts.
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