Marketing is usually handled by outside firms, but they need information and access and, well, things that require groups of people and traveling. The information we HAVE seen is about how the engineers are taking the cars home to keep doing software development and validation, how Ford is...
I've been removing an old tree stump behind my house with an axe. Chipping away a bit at a time whenever I get a chance.
Is it an exercise in futility? Maybe.
Is it great exercise? Absolutely.
Since they wanted more interior volume, they brought the roof line up, made the rear glass more...
I'm bored, so, why not.
The vehicles pictured were examples of form drag, not examples of rooftop spoilers (both of them had deck lid spoilers, by the way ... one with positive angle and one with negative angle).
Many, if not ALL, of the vehicles discussed so far have some kind of spoiler at...
Great information - form drag is the term I was looking for (guess I should have read your page 1 post a little closer ?). I'm a mechanical engineer who never did particularly well in fluid dynamics but I've been reading up on racecar aerodynamics with the goal of designing a lower-drag body for...
Spoilers with positive angle will direct air flow upwards to reduce lift and maybe net downforce depending on the setup, at the penalty of a larger wake resulting in higher drag. For example, the spoiler on Lightning McQueen. Another example would be Porsche's deployable decklid spoiler...
From my armchair aerodynamicist's perspective, the Mach E's rear spoilers (roof and sides) are both functional AND aesthetic.
Functionally, the roof spoiler probably helps reduce lift a little bit at the rear by preventing too much air flow turning downwards, in conjunction with what looks...