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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shovel" data-source="post: 1546042" data-attributes="member: 29855">I think that's been established.    It's just odd that they still underwent the effort to sort-of appear functional,  like the flapper valves.   It likely would have been cheaper to either omit the under-hood hole entirely or plug it with an off-the-shelf rubber plug than engineer and tool up a little flapper.  Same with the side vents,  they're just for looks but they cut a hole in the wheel well and tooled up a grille and took the manufacturing step of riveting that in place which all cost money... not to mention the similarity with this whole structure on 4th gen Supras .  [ATTACH=full]35772[/ATTACH]So the question is,  what's sillier?    A completely fake cosmetic feature that doesn't even try to pretend otherwise (like New Edge side vents & forward hood scoop thing),  or a completely fake cosmetic vent that carries the ruse all the way?</blockquote>