I want these...!

[dangel]

What about an oversized dog?

Which one's the dog?

[Capt Doufos]

That dog is ridiculously large, he could accidently eat it's owner. I agree he would do absoloutley nothing for your MPG though.

[HSK]

it's ugly. unless u have a car to match.

also, i want that buffalo sized dog.

[Vimeous]

What about an oversized dog?

Dunno about aero-efficiency but power-weight may suffer ..... (what a monster!)

I'm with dangel on the brake cooling, THEY BE HOT!

[0iD]

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[mycarsavw]

I had these on my old Bug before I went down the old Cal Look route.

Josh, you're wasting your money my friend, these will have no impact on your MPG at all.

Go for skinnier tyres and lighter wheels - I presume you have steels at the moment - if you're really serious. Then remove the door cards and so on. Shed weight

[matty-hodgson]

Not all that much - you can stick your hand out the window and air will still part around it.

Then look at the air that would hit any hubcaps.. practically none because the tread of the wheel has already pushed it out of the way.

maybe if your hand is horizontal.. but try doing 60-70mph and stick ya hond out vertically and i bet you that it moves back a good half a foot before you can control it..

the turbelance is caused when the air tries to fill the gap that the tyres made by forcing the air out the way..

have you seen Ferrari's tyres on their F1 car lately?



and as for the front tyre.. i reckon the reasoning behind the tyre being fully open is because 70% of the braking of a car happens with the front brakes so they'll need extreme cooling at those speeds

'nuff said

[matty-hodgson]

What about an oversized dog?

you'd lose MPG even if that thing never had its head out the window.. just from the sheer size of the thing! it must weigh nearly 200kilo does it?

it's HUGE!

[kalniel]

have you seen Ferrari's tyres on their F1 car lately?

And on half the other teams? It's nothing to do with aerodynamics, it's to direct airflow for cooling the brakes or for the diffuser. Infact the shields are more important for the front wheels for that reason.
The Official Formula 1 Website

[matty-hodgson]

And on half the other teams? It's nothing to do with aerodynamics, it's to direct airflow for cooling the brakes or for the diffuser.

instead of it going inside the wheel?
point proven.

[kalniel]

instead of it going inside the wheel?
point proven.

To explicitly make it go through the wheel actually.

[matty-hodgson]

To explicitly make it go through the wheel actually.

but the rear wheel is completely blocked so that makes so sense! :S
the gap in the middle is for the bold holding it on..