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      09-13-2020, 09:40 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by alphaatomix View Post
The space behind the rear creates a negative pressure, or a vacuum behind the car. This in turn becomes drag. By focusing the exhaust gas in the negative space, the high velocity air will reduce or eliminate the vacuum generated by the empty space. This is the same idea behind why the Zonda has the exhaust in back of the trunk.
Let’s hope this is the reason, and not some some harebrained scheme to make it more desirable by making it controversial.
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