Go Further with Ford 2012: The 2013 Ford Fusion Wind Tunnel Test

We spent last week with Ford at their Future Trends event in Detroit, and one of the sessions included seeing how they test their cars in a wind tunnel.

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We were taken to Wind Tunnel 8 where we would be standing in the wind tunnel during a test.

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Because we were actually in the wind tunnel they only took it up to around 25 mph.

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Using smoke, they demonstrated how the new 2013 Ford Fusion deals with wind and is aerodynamic.

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Here is a short video of it in action – apologies that it was a like shaky in parts, but we were in a wind tunnel!

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