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Originally Posted by aerohead
Some other reports which confirmed a direct correlation between tire width and aero drag were found with the:
*Pontiac Trans Am
*Subaru XT
Also,many of the lowest drag concept cars ran narrow tires as a low-drag strategy,including:
*GM Aero 2000
*GM Aero 2002
*GM Aero 2003
*Renault Vesta-II
*Ford Probe-IV
*LOREMO
*Daihatsu UFE I,II,III
*VW 1-Liter 2002
*VW 1L c 2009
*VW XL1 2016
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Thx aeohead. If it was part of the plan for the XL1, then that settles it for me. But Capriracer's point above that tires have less air flow exposure than we might assume because they are mostly in the wheel well... How significant, do you think that is?