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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
The right way to stop the wind buffeting you dislike is to put a spring loaded wind deflector on the leading edge of the opening that pops up when the roof opens, This is not a pie-in-the-sky idea. It's how they do it. If you look at the pictures, they DID put a deflector on the front edge, so there's no reason to put the roof on top behind the opening.
If anything, the roof up like that probably increases drag and reduces mileage.
So sue me too, 'cause they did something not pleasing.
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I am quite aware of the spring loaded wind deflector concept, but that doesn't take away the sound the air going over the opening makes even with the deflector. I was simply suggesting that the air would flow differently over that type of sunroof, and possibly to the benefit the issue of noise.
As for increasing drag (which any kind of sunroof does anyways to a point) you might as well complain about a spoiler increasing drag and reducing milage, the glass isn't but maybe a few inches off the roof, and the wind will already be deflected up by that modern thingamagig you just explained to me as a wind deflector. Those few inches also happen to be the amount the roof would probably need to be raised to accomidate your expensive built inroof sunroof, and I got money that says if they did it that way, you would be complaining about how they altered that instead and made the car different from the concept and ruined it, so on and so forth.
By the way, that sunroof you posted up a few posts back is on a 4 door car, the camaro is a 2 door, to me it seems the roof is significantly shorter than that, making a sunroof such as that 1. a very small opening and 2. very difficult to manufacture without drastically changing the entire roof of the car