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Originally Posted by Sven7
Man, if they styled it nicely like Bondo's cap it would seem to be a decent product! Now, though, it makes your Ram look like a Ssangyong.
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Thanks Sven7 for the kind words. Coming from someone like you who works in automotive design, that is a compliment indeed.
The influence of the Asian culture always has a bit of flair to it in automotive design. One design aspect of the far east aerocaps is the fact that they recessed the surface of the roof to allow for a space to put the third brake light into. This breaks up the most important surface of an aerocap, the top. Also, by doing this, it diminishes the angle of the rear window which reduces the rear visibility.
Maybe aerohead could chime in and verify that the step down to a recessed top of the Chinese aerocap may hurt the aerodynamics of it. I'd say it probably does. As far as quality of the Chinese aerocaps, I feel they are quality made as Aerohead implies in his earlier post.
Bondo