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02-22-2010, 06:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
vtec-e Master EcoModder Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ireland Posts: 507 De Yaris - '04 toyota yaris T2 90 day: 69.55 mpg (US) Thanks: 111 Thanked 32 Times in 22 Posts	Boat tail/ tailgate delete What was this guy thinking??!!?? Sorta solves the tailgate up/down saga though. ollie __________________

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02-22-2010, 07:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
Angmaar Master EcoModder Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Wisconsin, United States Posts: 479 Thanks: 6 Thanked 20 Times in 20 Posts	I wonder if that increases MPG.

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RobertSmalls Left Lane Ecodriver Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY, USA Posts: 2,257 Prius C - '12 Toyota Prius C Thanks: 79 Thanked 287 Times in 200 Posts	That guy spent a lot of time on custom fabrication without doing his homework first.

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I wonder if that increases MPG.

angle looks too steep

a vw beetle is smooth but has horrible cd

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02-22-2010, 10:49 PM	#5 (permalink)
TomO That VX guy! Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Mini Soda Posts: 829 The VX - '92 Honda Civic VX Thanks: 75 Thanked 80 Times in 53 Posts	NANANANANANANANA BATMAN!!!! Sorry, had to do it. I'll go back to my corner now. __________________

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02-23-2010, 06:23 AM

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NANANANANANANANA BATMAN!!!!

Sorry, had to do it. I'll go back to my corner now.

LOL! Didn't think of that. You'd have to wonder though. What was his motivation for making that? If it was aero then he got it seriously wrong, as Alohaspirit pointed out.

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02-23-2010, 08:27 AM	#7 (permalink)
Piwoslaw aero guerrilla Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 3,750 Svietlana II - '13 Peugeot 308SW e-HDI 6sp 90 day: 58.1 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,336 Thanked 749 Times in 476 Posts	Another eco-trucker? __________________ e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be What matters is where you're going, not how fast. "... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell [Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread

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Daox Administrator Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Germantown, WI Posts: 11,203 CM400E - '81 Honda CM400E 90 day: 51.49 mpg (US) Daox's Grey Prius - '04 Toyota Prius Team Toyota 90 day: 49.53 mpg (US) Daox's Insight - '00 Honda Insight 90 day: 64.33 mpg (US) Swarthy - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage DE Mitsubishi 90 day: 56.69 mpg (US) Daox's Volt - '13 Chevrolet Volt Thanks: 2,501 Thanked 2,588 Times in 1,555 Posts	At least with the aerocaps people have made here you can still use the bed. That just makes it completely useless. Might as well be driving around a 2 door coupe. __________________ Current project: A better alternator delete

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02-23-2010, 11:49 AM

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At least with the aerocaps people have made here you can still use the bed. That just makes it completely useless. Might as well be driving around a 2 door coupe.

Ah yes, but at least this one can go off road.....

Piwo: well spotted. I didn't even try looking for it here! Still funny though!

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NANANANANANANANA BATMAN!!!!

Sorry, had to do it. I'll go back to my corner now.

You had to. Now I've got that NANANANANANA in my head since yesterday!

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