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Old 09-15-2008, 11:17 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
How about the sides & rear of a Toyota Sienna minivan w/o roof racks? We're running out of decent testing weather with fall nearly on us, but my sister has one of those, and I'd like to make an effort to look at it.
What year is it? Even though any 90ish degree angle is good I'd say the older the better since some of the newer boxy stuff has unbelieveably low drag for what it is. For instance there are quite a few sites claiming the new base Tacoma has a drag coefficient of .36, which for a truck is pretty damn good, provided of course it's accurate. Offhand I'm pretty sure that a Sienna would be fine, but some of the stuff they're doing results in normal looking vehicles w/ impressive drag coefficients, and something as crude as a VG may not help something that's already optimized.
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