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Porsche related upcoming MythBusters show (possible spoiler here)
Laz - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 12:06:43 am

Just watched the Colbert Report and those two Mythbusters guys were on. Colbert asked them for a teaser about an upcoming episode. They said it would be about a car that's supposedly more aerodynamic going backward than forward, but couldn't say the name for legal reasons. Well... anybody here recall that being said about a certain front engined water cooled 8 cylinder sports car produced by a certain company known for air cooled rear engined cars?

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ps: Don't know what the supposed legal problem could be: Jalopnik & Pop Sci have it on their sites.
Laz - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 12:28:14 am

Just creating some buzz for it perhaps. It was a teaser after all.

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It wouldn't be that 1957 model featured on eBay?
TheFarmer - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 12:43:54 pm

Keeping the teaser alive - search Jalopnik

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Audi TT? *NM*
JM-Stamford,CT - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 9:44:55 am

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I don't think Audi made an air cooled, rear engined car. *NM*
Laz - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 11:09:02 am

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They tested it last November. It wasn't.
Red_Lightnin! - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 3:46:14 pm

It was also pretty stupid, because they cut off the body and welded it back on to do the test. Never heard of a wind tunnel, huh?

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Rent a wind tunnel. Expensive! *NM*
MarcW - Tuesday, 12 April, 2011, at 4:43:02 pm

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Mythbusters is never about doing a clean test, it is about doing a fun test *NM*
TheFarmer - Wednesday, 13 April, 2011, at 5:04:01 am

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... and to see what they can blow up! *NM*
Pedro (Odessa, FL) - Wednesday, 13 April, 2011, at 12:49:38 pm

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...which is why i watch it! *NM*
grant - Friday, 15 April, 2011, at 12:43:20 pm

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And what was it that they tested?
Laz - Friday, 15 April, 2011, at 1:46:53 pm

Clue: they called it "829."

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... and to see what they can blow up! *NM*

... and to see what they can blow up! NM