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Originally Posted by freebeard
A senior moment and the search engine is no help. Who was it that had a FIAT in the wind tunnel with a perforated base plate? It had fans in the rear wheels that pressurized the tires' wake.
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That's gonna be Professor Alberto Morelli, of the Turin Polytechnic Institute's FIAT Tipo 'ring-vortex' research at Pininfarina.
It wouldn't apply to the ZEVO on account of the complete absence of cross-sectional vertical, and rooftop camber, allowing the 3-D relieving effect to operate, a fundamental prerequisite to the ring-vortex' viability.