Spoilers

[Paul Pless]

porsche has always done it best, dammit

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[Garret]

Or - a more understated look:

[Paul Pless]

^ not a spoiler

[Paul Pless]

top this aesthetically and functionally

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[LeeG]

looks like a bbq grill

[Garret]

Wing/Spoiler - whatev

I just thought I'd be a spoiler...

I coulda posted a pic of Trump yaknow.

[Stiletto]

The other styling thing I like on that Porsche is the dished wheels. To my eye they look so much better than modern wheels that have the spokes out beyond the rims waiting to get kerbed.

[Hugh Conway]

does the suspension linked 908? count

[John B]

This thread would be wrong without..
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[RickBetterley]

Did someone mention Porsches? My Cayman race car (there’s a spoiler/wing back there), recently sold after I got the pulling boat bug.


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[ShorelineJohn]

not a spoiler

Why is a superbird wing not a spoiler?

[pkrone]

top this aesthetically and functionally

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My Dad had this exact car. I was so sad when he sold it as I didn't have the means at the time to buy it from him...

[Ron Williamson]

top this aesthetically and functionally

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Top it?
Can't.
Dream car,right down to the colour.
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[AnalogKid]

Why is a superbird wing not a spoiler?

An automotive airfoil (wing) is shaped like an upside-down airplane wing — it deflects airflow upward to generate down-force on the rear of the vehicle.
A spoiler is an obstruction to localized airflow that improves the overall airflow around a vehicle. Basically, you’re adding a barrier to a region of undesirable air behavior so the air will flow somewhere else.

https://www.wrcwings.tech/2015/11/24...%20a%20vehicle.

[Canoeyawl]

Those high performance air cooled engines want plenty of air.
There might be a negative pressure area back there that dr. Porsche was worried about.

[Jimmy W]

I'm still upset with myself that I didn't buy this. I had the money, just didn't have a garage at this house to keep it in. This was before the prices shot up.

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[Jim Bow]

[Jimmy W]

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[Old Dryfoot]

[peb]

911s were such beautiful cars before they go it carried away with the spoilers and flared fenders, and such.

Glad they quit making the 356 before all that garbage became popular.

[Bob (oh, THAT Bob)]

The 2010 Dodge Viper ACR (a street-legal race package) had a huge rear wing and front "splitter", this was a production car, from wiki:

Its aerodynamic upgrades produce up to 1,000 pounds (4.45 kN) of downforce at 150 mph (241 km/h), or roughly 10 times the downforce the standard Viper SRT-10 can produce at the same speed.

I remember reading a test of it in one of the car mags, evaluated on a road race course by SCCA hotshoe Randy Probst, he said of the downforce along the lines of, if not an exact quote, "It's hard to wrap your head around saying, 'I can't make this turn, but if I speed up ten miles per hour, I can.' "

[Bob (oh, THAT Bob)]

Lancia Stratos. Spoiler, and small wing or carry handle on top:

[Decourcy]

Lancia Stratos. Spoiler, and small wing or carry handle on top:

I almost bought a Stratos, years ago. I'm glad I didn't, because it was "cheap". There was a fellow on the island here who ran a little import car shop where he bought, sold, and repaired all the foreign cars. He used to race in one circuit or other, I forget which. Was badly burned.


Anyways, I bought something else, less interesting and less potentially dramatic.

[Figment]

Porsche have also done it badly on occasion... the little pop-up things on the Boxter come to mind.

[Paul Pless]

Porsche have also done it badly on occasion... the little pop-up things on the Boxter come to mind.

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[LeeG]

https://www.wrcwings.tech/2015/11/24...%20a%20vehicle.

ok, my mistake. They’re the plastic crap on modern cars that make tying down a canoe difficult and catch on parking stops.

[Canoeyawl]

ok, my mistake. They’re the plastic crap on modern cars that make tying down a canoe difficult and catch on parking stops.

This looks the perfect height for a canoe

[Garret]

This looks the perfect height for a canoe

I'm sure that's what the designers had in mind!

[ShorelineJohn]

Never owned a porsche, just lots and lots of corvairs.
I think the term has been misused over here for a long time. I can see how reducing the amount of lift would be be advertised as creating down force.
I do remember when the whale tail came out, it was advertise as both creating down force and oil cooling.

[Kevin T]

porsche has always done it best, dammit

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74?

Spoiler though is definitely the world famous "Duck Tail" yes?

[Kevin T]

top this aesthetically and functionally

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Also makes a great B-B-Q grill.

Kidding of course, but the 1989 Porsche 911S Turbo with the Gertag five speed is the penultimate evolution of the form, right behind the 959 at least to my way of thinking. But if I could have either one and wasn't allowed to sell either, I'd go with the 911S Turbo pictured because the 959 now fetches 7 figures at auction and it would be too nerve wracking as a daily driver.

[Gerarddm]

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[Ron Williamson]

74?

Spoiler though is definitely the world famous "Duck Tail" yes?

Fuchs and Duck.
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[robm]

I had no idea those things were so functional!

[Reynard38]