who would be mad at me if i posted a spoiler wing like the ones on the porsches or lamborghini's? i want a wing, because then people wont sit on my trunk, but im not sure i want to be typical, and im going for the street legal race car look, but kinda subtle at the same time.

Itll be lower to the car, and not that obnoxious. same high as the stock one just strait ends with the caps

 

I'm from the "form follows function" school. If it isn't really functional, you're just posing.

 

I quite like the XJS with a spoiler. Mine doesn't have one and I won't be installing one, but it's not terrible

 

It doesn't look bad, but it does nothing and adds 8 lbs to the rear of the car.

 

i hate spoilers on XJS's..... except this one.
if it doesnt have a splitter to go with it, then im not even gonna look twice.

 

Splitter being the rear or front thing? Im making the front thing on my car. Its that style but smaller its from an r33 skyline

 

Having a spoiler keeps people from sitting on your trunk, espcially since everyone comments on how perfect and flat my trunk it.

 

ever heard of spikes?

front splitters look killer.

 

yeah, i wanna do one of thoes on my body kit sooner or later splitters, and spikes just dont... fit the car

 

have you ever seen the old aluminum bodied pontiacs from the 60's. i saw a few of them that had "do not lean" painted on either front fender. lol

 

That "Lister" is not far removed from this.....

 

whats scary is that someone obviously put a lot of time into that. and since its in the middle of a walmart parking lot, it looks like they drive it around that way.

 

Heh heh, tastes vary, of course.

Off hand I can't think of any car with a spoiler that wouldn't look better if it wasn't there. To my eyes they always look like a tacky add-on.....even the "factory" installed type.

But, hey, that's just me :-)


Cheers
DD

 

plymouth superbird.

 

I agree the Superbird is the most hideous of them all. I agree with Doug's opinion on spoilers.

 

the superbird looks much better as a roadrunner.

 

Never liked Mopars but I agree the regular road runner looked better than that hideous Superbird/Daytona. The extra nose cone and wing are absolutely ridiculous. However someone must like them because they bring huge money.

 

But the nosecone and wing were 100% for racing, hence functional. Ugly, but that is a case of form following function, as opposed to form for its own sake.

 

HAHA! took me nearly all day to figure it out.... damn, its past midnight.

*all day* to figure out a car that looks better wiht a spoiler.

Ferrari F40.

 

not to be pedantic, but lets get the spoiler/wing thing straight here before this goes any further.

a spoiler is used at the tail end of the car to REDUCE LIFT. it is designed to "spoil" the airflow over the top of the car. it is usually a "turn up" at the rear most part of the trunk or glass or whatever. (think porsche 928 S, 944, or 80s era bmw m6)

a wing is designed to PROVIDE DOWN-FORCE, and requires the air moving over the car to actually pass under the wing itself. (think 928 S4, or f40, or even the xjs wings that were posted up earlier)

not commenting on looks, the only xjs's that i have seen with true spoilers on the tail have been lister package models that have some kind of a black plastic add-on wrapped around the trunk lid. (not the lister wings, which i have also seen, but allow air to flow under them, and not the late model monster listers [i forget what they're called exactly] that have a wing fashioned in to the actual body work).i'll see if i can find a photo of one of these.

any aerodynamicists out there to keep me honest?

all that being said, i think some cars do benefit in the looks department with wings/spoilers. others don't.

f40, definitely looks great with the wing.
944 definitely looks great with spolier.
928 s4, terrible with wing.
e30 bmw m3 wing? jury's out, kind of ridiculous, but suits the nature of the car. in the same way a wrx looks naked without a wing.