Boat-tailing behind tires

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Introduction
Just as entire vehicle rear ends can benefit from boat tailing, so can individual wheels/tires.

The 2nd generation Toyota Prius has tapered bodywork (in the bumper cover) behind its rear tires that serve this purpose.

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User Name Car Make, Model, Year Cost of Mod Time to Perform Mod MPG Before Mod MPG After Mod MPG improvement guess Instruction Link
Example Data Saand Example Data Mazda, 626, 1991 Example Data $5 USD Example Data 1 Hour Example Data 27.2 Example Data 29.8 User mod detail or measurement detailed data


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Aerocivic - how to drop your Cd from 0.34 to 0.17

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