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Originally Posted by Blighty
I'm pretty sure he is talking about how the rear wheel qtr body now have a second angle. The only part of the old car I didn't like the look of was how there was kinda like a sheet of body that went up very high (on a slight angle) to the curve where it meets the main body, and it sorta looked like the rear qtr of a camrey (to me) - bland. Its something that is really hard to see properly in pictures, but in real life once you see it its hard to un-see it.
Not they have sculpted it further, it curves out, then angled down with an additional curve line that runs across the whole thing to join the tail light with the top curve, and so not only is it doing more interesting stuff, its also a smaller sheet section down to the wheel arch. I promise you this will look WAY better in real life - hard to grasp in pictures.
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I'll try to see if I can point out things that I see from the Rear Panel that make sense from a Fluids standpoint albeit my last time working on CFD was back in 2018. Low speed fluid dynamics for cars should apply at the sideskirt and the rear "spat" that Toyota uses for their terminology to streamline the airflow to around or under the car body. You will get turbulent air at the wheel well but the design of the side skirt should be able to mitigate some of those vectors and the rear spat at the well will assist with deflect the air around the body panel towards to rear bumper/wing. I just roughly did some vectors that from a CFD side probably will need more detail to define the actual speed of air flow around the car body, but I'm starting to like what the Engineers at Subaru/Toyota did to make the car achieve that lower drag coefficient. I agree it's hard to grasp in pictures what I was talking about but I personally think the design will age fine in terms of aesthetic.