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Is Bigger Really Better...?

Old Oct 25, 2021 | 09:27 AM
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That car model should be renamed:. WTF-Type
 
Old Oct 25, 2021 | 09:33 AM
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Crap! Now I cant unsee that.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 09:38 AM
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That can't be real, it can't...
photo shop, I hope.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 09:40 AM
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Yes - if some is good - more is better! I actually think they could have gotten more aggressive with it….

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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 10:01 AM
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I cannot fathom anyone modifying a a work of art with this hideous wing. It must be trick photography! It can always be removed and beauty restored.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 10:04 AM
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From an aesthetics standpoint it really sucks but does it actually even do anything aerodynamically?
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by CJSJAG
From an aesthetics standpoint it really sucks but does it actually even do anything aerodynamically?
Yeah, it makes people fly away in the opposite direction before they're sick!
Appalling.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 10:32 AM
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I hate to say it, that a fellow American did this to one of the most beautiful cars in the world. Shooting is too good for this car molester.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 12:00 PM
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Oh the humanity! It's horrifying.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by CJSJAG
From an aesthetics standpoint it really sucks but does it actually even do anything aerodynamically?
You want the wing to be impacted by clean air for less buffeting at speed, so typically you see functional wings raised up relatively high in order to either be slightly below or just in-line with the roof height.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 02:02 PM
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I'm not an aero expert, but ... I'd expect this to make the car understeer badly at the limit unless they also did something to increase front grip, right? Plus, I don't see significant negative camber in the alignment like you would expect for a tracked car that might actually benefit from more downforce. My guess is that this was done just for the look.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 02:23 PM
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Oh my word
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 03:10 PM
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It's like a train wreck...I can't look away--but I should. With all due respect, (and no judgment) the original poster's location is "Colorado". (And I recognize that this image COULD have come from anywhere in the known world, but...) NOW, it makes sense. The vast majority of the country, certainly here in Michigan, looks at Colorado as the "High State". After all, Denver is the "Mile High City" and CO was among, if not, the first to legalize marijuana recreationally. So, this ridiculously HIGH spoiler is understandable--one would have to be high to think this looked good.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by KalamazooJag
It's like a train wreck...I can't look away--but I should. With all due respect, (and no judgment) the original poster's location is "Colorado". (And I recognize that this image COULD have come from anywhere in the known world, but...) NOW, it makes sense. The vast majority of the country, certainly here in Michigan, looks at Colorado as the "High State". After all, Denver is the "Mile High City" and CO was among, if not, the first to legalize marijuana recreationally. So, this ridiculously HIGH spoiler is understandable--one would have to be high to think this looked good.
Interesting analogy. Check out the plates of the surrounding cars in the lot. The car and the photo was taken in Southern Illinois by a friend who lives there...
 

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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael211
I'm not an aero expert, but ... I'd expect this to make the car understeer badly at the limit unless they also did something to increase front grip, right? Plus, I don't see significant negative camber in the alignment like you would expect for a tracked car that might actually benefit from more downforce. My guess is that this was done just for the look.
The guy wires really make it for me. I'd like to see what it looks like going 80 mph from the rear in the lane next to it, not behind it.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 04:26 PM
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Car looks like a screen grab from the GTA video game.
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 05:31 PM
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Probably a little too much enthusiasm for me and I am quite the wing fan. But more power to the owner for making the car special.

Unfortunately the height of the wing would mean I couldnt open the boot in my garage to get the shopping out. I wish I had a more manly reason for having to decline it (eg "it would bump my punching bag" or "it would make it hard to strap timber to the roof of the car") but one must be a realist, for me it is more "i would have to take the groceries out before I drove into the garage which means parking the car on the slope then faffing about and taking stuff inside then starting the car again and parking it which sounds like an absolute PITA".
 
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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 07:12 PM
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That big of a wing would make it EASIER to strap lumber to your F.

But as they say "Beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder". The owner probably doesn't see the wing when looking out the rearview.
 
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In my most drunken stupor I couldn't come up with something that hideous.
 
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