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Originally Posted by jimhelm
and tw.... the spoiler makes the car look better esthetically.... and therefore serves a purpose. when you sell this car, it will have more eyeball, and hence more value.
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And four inch platform shoes worn by males made them more popular. Complete nonsense.
White wall tires were another scam. Many paid more because advertising told them what to think. More white meant girls would swoon.
True. Some are so vain as to do what fashion designers order them to do. Communism and dictatorships also love such people. See so many of them in Apple's 1982 Macintosh commercial.
It is a car. Rear visibility is already bad - dangerous. So we spend $hundreds to make it worse? Then put obstructions to make snow and ice removal harder? Amazing how many must do what they are told rather than do what makes common sense.
Spend $400 on a spoiler to be popular? To increase its resale value by $40? Borrow money with interest to pay for something that does nothing but depreciate? Well some egos need that spoiler.
A spoiler has negative aerodynamic effects. It is on race cars so that rear tires will grip the road better (and tires wear out faster) when the car is at 120 and 150 MPH. It does nothing useful at 60 and 70 MPH. And are often so badly designed to do nothing even at above 100 MPH. But it says who can be so easily manipulated; cannot think for themselves.
Even proposed race cars (planned for 2014 and later) are eliminating that ugly wing. Suggests what fashion designers will tell us what we must all have in a few years.
What do obsolete technology cars have? Chrome. White walls. Tiny windows. Noisy engines. Hood ornaments. And spoilers.
Don't forget the longhorns. A fuzzy rug on the dashboard. And big ass woofers. Also so necessary so that others will respect you.
Spoiler = ugly && a driver starved for self-esteem.
But don't let me discourage you from spending $hundreds on something that does nothing.