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All this "fake hood scoop" crap.... Seriously, if absolutely everything on a car was made to be functional we'd all be driving boring blobs of metal. The hood scopes do serve a purpose: they function as a means to draw the eye, give the appearance of power. You could stick a car like the Camaro into the body of my Cavalier (with obvious changes to proportions and size and such, I'm talking styling) if you really wanted to. But do you know why they don't? Because the style doesn't match the power. The reverse can be said as well, you're not going to stick the Cobalt's power train into the Camaro's body styling because they just don't match (DeLorean anyone..........?). You have to make the car LOOK as powerful as it is.
Sure hood scoops can get out of hand, but the G8 and the Camaro are perfect examples of aesthetically functional features. Just because they aren't MECHANICALLY functional and increase the performance doesn't mean they shouldn't be there.
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