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Originally Posted by Phase
Front skirts seem too difficult with all the springs and hinges and rollers for design. Thankfully my car is a little more modern so it has air curtains and I have completely flat closed front wheels. I could probably fill in the arch gap a little more for added benefit though. I mean the Ioniq 6 used a wheel arch gap space reducer and they keep bragged about it like it’s revolutionary. Surprised not every car company just copies them
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If I had the car, I'd cobble together some cardboard front skirts, top off the IONIQ near a highway on ramp, tape them on, and take off, on a test run. Steering clearance wouldn't be an issue until you finished whatever distance you chose to drive, then pull off on an off ramp, pull the tape, and top off the tank for the data.
If the IONIQ skirts performed anything like on the Audi A3, you'd be looking at Cd 0.2232, just with the skirts.
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By the way, MOTOR TREND dove the 'refreshed' 2020 IONIQ hybrid, round trip, from Los Angeles, to Las Vegas, at 80-mph, and returned an average 38-mpg.
They'd experienced the EPA's 55-mpg HIGHWAY at 63-mph.