[Shotimes] Air Pressure in Car

[Ron Nottingham]

Comparing my wife's BMW 325 to the SHO, the BMW is fine with the windows
down, the SHO is just awful.  Keep in mind the E30 is based on a body style
from the 70's, that has been freshened considerably.  Windows down in my
friend's 95 RX7 is horrible.  Windows down in my '80s turbo t-bird were bad,
also.  My Mercury Capri turbo was fine with the windows down.  My 89 Z24
wasn't too bad with the windows down.  My EXP turbo wasn't bad either.  My
300zx's had ok windows down characteristics.

My experience: newer, more aerodynamically styled cars have terrible windows
down attributes.  Older, less "aerodynamic" cars have better windows down
attributes.

My take: the older cars were designed when A/C systems were expensive
options that many people did not get, so the vehicles were designed with
better windows down dynamics.

Just my 2 cents...

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hulan, William R (GEP)" <William.Hulan@gepex.ge.com>


> Driving a 2002 Grand Prix GT <--- rental not mine)....Mild day....Kids
> rolled the back windows down....created a "vortex" that caused  the radio
to
> sound "funny" <---funny hmm...not funny ha ha)....It also literally hurt
our
> ears.
>
>
> Plus today's cars are NOT designed to run with windows down.
>   The wind drums on your ears and head and it isn't pleasant
> in most new cars.
>
> Get in any 50's and 60's car and roll down the windows and
> you get lots of beneficial air flow, but none of the beating
> you take in a new car!
>
> And no, I don't think the old cars were that bad
> aerodynamically.  My 66 GP is quieter at speed than my 97
> SHO!  Air that is disturbed is noisy air.
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