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Old 04-19-2006, 07:47 AM   #5
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Phil Knox

Here is a little explaination from the Phil Knox from the Toyota Tundra discussion.

Phil Knox:
Your hatchback has a station wagon type wake of turbulent air, however, it is free of attached vortices.The sedans wake actually begins at the end of the roof as flow which cannot follow the steep backlight angle separates. Also, while this flow may reattach at the end of the trunklid where the main wake begins, the radical pressure gradients and violent mixing zones caused by velocity discrepancies between dide flow and rooftop flow can cause attached vortices which can trail the car by hundreds of feet,robbing horsepower from the engine.
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