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Old 10-19-2008, 12:51 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Hype-brid - '10 Toyota Auris HSD T-Spirit
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Originally Posted by lunarhighway View Post
a few 80's and early 90's cars wich had quite good to exeptionally good Cd's used these cut off rear arches... unfortunately big wheel arches again became a fashionable in the late 90's and this smart feature disapeared.
here's a few examples of car wich more or less cut off rear arches... most have pretty great aero for their age


1986 opel omega 0.28 Cd (one of my favourites)

1984 opel kadett (later rebadged daewoo nexia and pontiac lemans) 0.32 Cd
The wheels arches on the Vauxhalls / Opels also had the propensity to attract the dreaded Tin worm. I suppose this is a form of weight reduction so not all bad

The Citroens were galvanised so didn't suffer in the same way.
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