GM Wind Tunnel (30 year anniversary)

[steve-o]

Hey it looks like we all own a wind tunnel, we own GM through the government right now right...

Air drag tests improve GM's fuel efficiency | detnews.com | The Detroit News

[NeilBlanchard]

Another article on the GM wind tunnel:

General Motors' wind tunnel turns 30, more important than ever — Autoblog Green

BTW: the Edison2 Very Light Car mainstream (4-seater) was tested in the GM wind tunnel recently.

[gone-ot]

...yeah, but the one at Langley AFB is BIGGER (ha,ha).

[Frank Lee]

i thought i should have more access to the college auto shop since i was forking all that tuition money over... found out otherwise tho'.

[darkdan]

Darn, I got all excited.

Years ago some college did some wind tunnel testing on GM trucks with and without tonneau covers and such. All kinds of cool drag coefficients and stuff (and really was nice evidence to shut up the "tailgate off" people), but the website was taken down years ago. I thought from the title of the thread this was a link to that.