Old Mar 4, 2006 | 05:21 PM
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Default Re: Standard's deployable wing vs. SRT's fixed wing

Originally Posted by slaps76
You may like the Xfire's spoiler better than the Porsche's, but the Porsche wins in every other department.

It's like saying I prefer the a/c **** in a Nissan Sentra over the new Porsche's.


Either way, I don't like the look of the Xfire with the spoiler up. Isn't there any specs on downforce for each model to compare?
You know Slaps, at a $106,000, I would certainly hope that the Porsche would indeed win in every other department. I was only speaking about the "aesthetic" value of the spoilers. And since the a/c ***** in either car you mentioned are not visible to the whole world as you drive down the street, then I really don't think it is the same thing. If my Viper GTS would have came with the additional "elevated" spoiler that the GTS-R came with, in all honesty, I don't think I would have bought it. But then that's just me.

We've all been so focused on the "down force" issue that I don't believe I've read anything about the actual "spoiler" effect, until Pelked1 mentioned it in his first post. Frankly, I've always thought the pop-up spoiler was more of a gimmick than anything else. But I now think Pelked1 "hit it square on the nose". The roof design of the Crossfire coupe is very conducive to lift, and disrupting the airflow by the use of a spoiler would keep the car far more stable at speed than simply the addition of massive amounts of down force.
Very nice call Pelked1. But now what are we going to argue about?
 
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