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I have a 95 SE with a little spoiler. I would be interested in trading for the later trunks. I like the shape of the trunk but want the bigger wing. IMHO I think they need a little more back there. my car is Champaine colored
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Yeah my car has a baby seat, its still fast.
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SVT did some tests with the spoiler and found
it reduced top speed and simply introduced an
unwanted amount of drag while offering little
else. It was also felt the spoiler was a huge
cliche and that the car just didn't need one.
I believe the quote from an SVT tech was "Our
car doesn't need a spoiler for credibility".
T.
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Thanks for the replies. I was pretty sure that it was only for cosmetic reasons. I don't have one on my wife's car, but I've considered getting one installed. I like the way it looks on an SVT model. However, I don't want to get yelled at by my wife when she want's to go 143mph and can only nudge 140. 
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No really i'll sell you mine with a trade.
'99 Contour SE Sport, 50k, V-6, ATX, T-Red, With Many many mods.
'99 GMC Sonoma SLS, 16k, 4-cyl, Summit white, not as many mods.
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Originally posted by gwellington:
Well, from a performance standpoint, you don't need downforce at the back of a front wheel drive car. As I mentioned in a post a few months back, however, I once had my friendly Pontiac dealer (who did seem to otherwise know what he was talking about) tell me that the rear "wings" raised the effective level of the tail of the car, smoothing the airflow out as it passed over the roof and off the back of the car, and helping lower overall drag. He did note that the fuel savings from the better aerodynamic efficiency might or might not be canceled out the added weight (the wing) that the car had to carry. So at best it's a wash, and it probably hurts performance because of the weight. Some people want to take them off, but they're probably the same people who remove their valve stem caps to save unsprung weight.... No offense, but I've heard the FWD cars don't need a wing thing way too much... That is a totallt wrong statment, by morons who know nothing about cars other than going in a straight line. Thw wing on the contour is just for looks, but wings are a great benifit while braking and turning. Alot of people think rear drive cars need a wing because the wing adds downforce to the rear wheels. To get any appreciable downforce on the wing you need to be doing a pretty quick speed. How many RWD cars do you know have a problem spinning the rear tires at 50+ mph? As a person who has had his Contour in a 4 wheel slide at over 60 mph (on purpose), I can tell you that the car needs a rear wing.... a real wing though, one that provides downforce.
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95seped--
OK, I'll take no offense at being called a moron. Anyway, the point is that front wheel drive cars are inherently prone to understeer, because of the disproportionate weight over the front wheels vs. the rears, and because the front tires, doing the steering/braking/powering, tend to get a bit stressed. So to the extent you want downforce, you want it to make the front wheels stick. Adding downforce at the rear has its place, I admit (BTCC cars do have rear wings), so that you don't lock the rears on braking under racing conditions; still, the wings on street fwd cars are either for show or to smooth the airflow. Notice that they are not the inverted NACA airfoil shape you would expect if downforce were the goal.
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