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Old 05-14-2020, 12:01 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
... My thought drift to the Merkur XR4Ti with it's biplane spoiler.


https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...tml#post267188

Just mounted at the top of the hatch and pancaked somewhat....
I love that spoiler. I also suspect that the roof spoiler the OP is describing might not be so much to let air escape as it is for "tuning" the flow in some way. For example, Subaru apparently spent a lot of time and money tuning the position of those silly looking vortex generators you see on the STi from a fee years ago. The goal, I read, was to direct flow to the substantial wing on the rear decklid.
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