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When I bought my daughter a Mazda 3 sedan in 2008, she had to have the spoiler. I now have the car back (she bought her own new car), and am somewhat embarrased to drive it with that darn thing.
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The Truth about Spoilers
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Me, I like smaller spoilers. Very few cars can pull off the wing. I hate that one on the corvette that was posted. I had a viper GTS and I have seen a couple with factory wings. Yes the car could back it up, but I rather disliked the way it looked.
I like them to be low lips or 1 or 2 inches off the trunk and that is all. The large ones look ridiculous and everybody that has one knows it. A lot of posers deck out their cars, but don't have anything under the hood, they just want to look fast with an i4. The quiet yet deadly look is always the best, that's JDM style at it's finest. Interestingly, I live in an area with a lot of latinos and they tend to be the ones that deck out a turd most often than not.
The GTR stock spoiler is nice:
This 370Z spoiler is nice:
I don't like the super large ones either, I personally think they look distracting and over the top, I prefer the small spoilers on the rear.
I am okay with them. Some work at 60mph a little and if functional why not? Not into fake stuff on cars like fake things on hoods that don't open or do anything. US car makers seem to love fake stuff, like fake air intakes.
Unless you really have the power to lose traction at high speed, they are useless,
Didn't I JUST tell you why that's not true, even with street cars? As I mentioned, with wings, a piper cub can FLY at 25 mph. Think about why it doesn't need to go high speed to work.
If not functional in any way (either to reduce drag for increased fuel economy or to create down force for better traction/handling) then it's worthless. Some car makers put them on far too many of their vehicles. It was optional on every car I've owned and I choose not to have it.
I was going to say I don't like non functional wings and spoilers, but I do like spoilers on some cars, the little wing on say a late model Alero sedan is pointless. Such as Foxbody hatch wings and spoilers, some of them look good, yet none of them are functional as they aren't tall enough. Normally for a wing or spoiler to work properly, they need to be at or above roofline, depending on the car.
Some of them will just slow the car down, like the hoop wing on mk4 Supras, and second gen Eclipse, or the wing on the srt4 neons. They are tall and aren't designed for nothing but looks, the one one that white camaro is probably the same. The wings that come on the fox4 cobras(not the R) are on there to slow the car down. The wings on the 05+ STi's, and the Lancers Evos are functional. The Daytona and Superbird wings are functional as intended by NASA, way up in uninterupted air, giving another benefit of it clears the trunk.
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