Reply to "Functional air intake on c pillar?"

If you'd like to play around with aerodynamics a bit, try wetting your fingertip, then rolling a window down just an inch or so and stick the wet finger outside more-or-less in line with the gills. You'll be surprised how far out you have to reach to feel the evaporation-effect cooling your fingertip. I suspect the Pantera's side boundary layer is so thick partly because of the windshield trim & gasket, and the tall rain channels down the front pillars. There may be some effect from the depressed position of the door glass, too. But its a pain to remove the channels since they're one piece all the way back, the door gaskets seal to them and there's a 2ft long welded seam on both sides of the roof that's exposed if you pull the channels (I chose not to cut them). Other brands have no (or smaller) pillar rain-channels, flush side glass & windshields, and other body tweaks not easy to install after the fact.