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Old 12-09-2008, 03:20 AM   #3 (permalink)
lunarhighway
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yea it sure would, but this blowup was taken from the first officially released picture of the production version and made brighter to see the dams...fortunately the detail wasn't lost in the shadows...most pictures are still of the concept, and very few promotion shots actucally show a full frontal these days.

cars also have become more 3 dimentional (70's cars with their boxy looks could be pretty accurately depicted in 3 views, but todays cars oftel look odd when reduced to 3 dimentions)

it appears as if the front dams follow the curve of the bumper and the rear dams are faceing forward.

what i find interesting is that the front dams end quite a bit before the wheel arch, so i'm trying to imagine what sort of flow would occur around this configuration and what the intention is.
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