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Originally Posted by freebeard
Agreed. You left out pantaloons, or pants.
What you're calling spats, I'd call a cycle fender. And some of those new OEM deflectors are nothing more than strakes, or wickerbills.
No idea on the Mercedes EV. Generative AI?
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1) 'pants' works! The literature is littered with this term, in lieu of 'skirts.'
2) Dr. Wolf H. Hucho's use of 'spat' described a fully-encapsulating inner fender, as FoMoCo used on their Probe-IV and V concepts. Perhaps GM's Aero 2002A follow-on to the Aero 2002 ) The car is never shown with the wheels off center ).
3) 'Strakes' were used by AeroVironment/General Motors, to describe the yaw-control devices attached to the underside trailing edge of the 1987 GM Sunraycer, World Solar Challenge winner solar racer. It's the first time this adjective appeared in print, to my knowledge.
3) In 'spirit', I can see your reasoning for 'wickerbill', as associated with wheel deflectors. The 2012 SolarWorld GT I saw had nothing more than aluminum angle extrusion attached ahead of the front wheels to 'jump' the flow 'over' the sand-dial/ hour-glass wheel-house, wheel-flop openings.
4) I do believe that 'deflector' is the proper term.
5) 'Wickerbill' is associated with the Dan Gurney, 'Gurney flap', as could be ordered on the 2015, Chevy Camaro Z-28 ( $395, plus $ 117 installation ). It provided 150-lbs downforce @ 150-mph, generating downforce all the way down to 40-mph.