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Old 04-28-2011, 06:24 AM
Araxiel Araxiel is offline
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Default Re: I'm not looking for power...

The only reason I feel that the no tailgate or mesh tailgate worked on mythbusters was because they were testing how much fuel the truck used, not the aerodynamics or anything. Therefore, the weight likely played a huge factor in the results they had.

SEMA tested the aerodynamics of all the choices, and here are the results
http://www.sema.org/ltaa/do-tonneau-...ve-gas-mileage

Which seem to be contradicting the Mythbusters results.

Correction:
SEMA did not perform the test, here is the test report
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/2...affner/did.htm
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