tonti@ptsfc.UUCP (Guy Tonti) (01/14/86)
Fellow netters, I feel the following will make an excellent discussion point through the post-holiday blues. Has anybody come across, or performed any research, on the savings achieved in driving a pickup with the tailgate down? The curiousity is in whether the savings are significant enough to warrant its periodic removal when the bed is not in use. Also, would it help as much to merely put the gate down as opposed to removing it? (a reason given for not driving with it down is it blocks the view of the license plate, but assuming this is not the case...) Natural assumptions say that putting it down minimizes wind resistance, so why don't truck manufacturers make them more easily removable? ********************************************************************** My mother the car, She's my very own, guiding star... **********************************************************************