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Originally Posted by Porsche-poor View Post
The cool kid trend here is the huge rear wing. Most cars I see it on are front wheel drive. Now I could be wrong but hte wing pushes down on the rear of the car for traction correct? If its front wheel drive whats the point?
FWD or RWD (or AWD), lift is lift. So by pushing the car down to the ground (or by reducing lift at the very least), it increases the force of traction the tires can "generate" going around a corner.

Of course, you want it to be balanced, front to rear, as well. So the look of a huge rear combat wing (like on the original WRX STis) without anything on the front is a bit ridiculous from an engineering perspective.
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