Just did a bit more searching and found a few articles looking into tailgate aerodynamics. I was interested to discover that a lot of people believe that having the tailgate up is more efficient than having it down... Will look into further
A scale model is possible I guess!
How is this not already a thing? I'm thinking there must be a reason. Have done some searching and found nothing - seems like such an obvious feature!
Thanks for the tip!
Hi Berkeman,
Thanks for your response!
That certainly is an interesting idea - wonder why something hasn't been done about this... I guess the simple (but not very visually appealing) option is just to put a cover over it. I'm guessing you had a better idea on how to achieve this though?
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