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Old 07-28-2014, 09:23 PM   #21 (permalink)
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The New Focus - '07 Ford Focus ZX5
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I'm loving some of the things BMW did with that 4-series. The back has a small kammback it looks like, aero wheels, grill shutters AND the vents that were the reason why I started this thread. If anything, I think BMW proved my idea that cars with some kind of fender bulge might benefit from a small hole cut in the rear of the bulge. Ideally this would be experimented on a car with an already messed up fender from an accident or small animal impact. Something tells me that this won't increase MPG by 500% but I wonder if it's something that might show increases outside of the normal noise if checking MPG...

And could maybe be a more simple, more attractive mod than front wheel skirts that nets almost the same gain...maybe??

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2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014

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