Monday, February 01, 2021

We're Back!!! Here's a Proton Wira with a WTF Type of Downforce Mod

We're Back! Well, or starting to get back but Goddammit, this pandemic lockdown has got me totally bored of motoring as there have been no REAL experiences to... Well, experience. No actual launches to attend. No real cars to try out without lots of social distancing. So much protocol in place. You get the picture. I am all about the experience and Virtual launches bore me. So I rather do other stuff like killing tanks and ships or people in, well, PC games...which are also virtual. Go figure. But here is a Proton Wira with suspect aerodynamic mods. 

The word 'suspect' is an understatement. Take a look closely at the photo which was forwarded to me by my pal Zairul recently. Take a look at that aero appendage on the roof of the sleek looking Proton you see here. See what it is? 

It is a fan. A ceiling fan for a house to be exact. Definitely not for a car. 1000% not for the roof of a car.


It is also placed with its blades facing downwards. This means that if it turns, the major point here is that, if, it turns, it will be theoretically able to generate Downforce on the roof area of the car. Which is why I suspect it was pkaced there so that the it would be able to balance the overall 'downforce' generated by the lip spoiler up front and the gargantuan boot spoiler at the rear. Do with the fan fitted, the roof also has ground effect aero in place.

Include the vortex generator fins at the rear of the roof this car could be better than the Lotus ground effects F1 car that was banned in the 1970s. Maybe because Proton once owned Lotus. No?

Of course not. This is just a Malaysian  Proton Wira owner whose innovation has gone amuck. Give someone enough time, especially during a lockdown and this could happen. Or too much glue sniffing.

I wonder if the fan actually works. It could also cool down the roof of the car in a hot sunny day. 

Oh, let's no go to the ladder stuck on the rear door too....as if the Wira is so tall that it would be hard to reach the fan on the roof. 

All of this makes me wonder whether there is a potty in the boot and a dining table inside it too.




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