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Old 12-16-2014, 02:40 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by serialk11r View Post
While I love the McLaren vented mirrors, my car already has a cabin air intake...

A design I always wondered about after seeing the Lexus LFA was a mirror sitting right next to the A-pillar with a long housing extending ahead of the windshield. That would presumably weaken the A pillar vortices.
*Some of the low-drag concepts place the mirror below the cowl level to get them below that accelerated A-pillar flow.(Probe IV)
*Ford has done this with their F-150,which has a special cut down side windows for which to see the lowered units.
*Subaru moved their XT mirrors out 80mm from the body,into slower air and killed most of the interference.
*Ditto with GM Impact.
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