Looking at some photos of aerodynamic cars I was noticing that very few of them have mudflaps installed, and especially never at the rear of the vehicle. Now I'm wondering if we take some kind of fuel economy hit by leaving the flaps on, and wonder how much the rear mudflaps as provided effect the rear drag zone of the vehicle, big ghetto ass that it is.
If mudflaps marginally reduce rock hits on the truck body or other vehicles but cost us fuel economy could there be another more fuel friendly solution?
Who the hell do we benefit by having full sized mud flaps on our trucks, when I don't see them on the majority of other small and medium sized trucks on the road, and almost never on cars anymore.
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