Okay, I don't know why, but I've fianlly gotten really ticked off because of what people keep calling the spoiler on cars. My room-mate calls them "fins" and everyone seems content with "wings" as well. Fins, as in dorsal fins, are single planes that are usually 90 degrees from the surface of whatever they are one. Old American cars have fins, spoliers are NOt fins! Now, they might be like upside down wings, but it's still bugs me that people use this term. A wing is something that provides lift. The function of a spolier is to put drag, or downforce, not lift! I just needed to vent I suppose, but people need to pay attention to the words they are using and do it in an informed and intelligent manner! Whpew! Done!

lol thats a lot of anger to vent out

I believe people started calling them wings when several dumbass's in a Hondas attached 100 lb WINGS (I called it a wing to bring attention that if you had another one and a propellor, you would be flying) to there car that nothing more then cause drag and slow the car down. Or the point of 90% of all of the spoliers attached to cars is strictly a fashion point other then performance.

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Ok, it's spoilers then... :) :idea:

some actually look like park bences but thats another story :lol:

ooooh, I give up! I've been seeing them called 'wings' by almost every car magazine so I guess I'm just really off with my point or something.

ooooh, I give up! I've been seeing them called 'wings' by almost every car magazine so I guess I'm just really off with my point or something.

lol and here i was just about to say "AMEN BROTHA!" :lol:

actually i've been guilty of calling them wings form time to time because im chinese and the chinese word for spoiler actually means.......wing :P

ooooh, I give up! I've been seeing them called 'wings' by almost every car magazine so I guess I'm just really off with my point or something.What you going to do :(

Here in Greece the most common word is "aerotomi", the exact meaning in english is "aircut", but there is no such word in english. Anyway, when someone wants to refer to it with a foreign word, they call it "spoiler". As for me i think that the right word is "wing".

Okay, I don't know why, but I've fianlly gotten really ticked off because of what people keep calling the spoiler on cars. My room-mate calls them "fins" and everyone seems content with "wings" as well. Fins, as in dorsal fins, are single planes that are usually 90 degrees from the surface of whatever they are one. Old American cars have fins, spoliers are NOt fins! Now, they might be like upside down wings, but it's still bugs me that people use this term. A wing is something that provides lift. The function of a spolier is to put drag, or downforce, not lift! I just needed to vent I suppose, but people need to pay attention to the words they are using and do it in an informed and intelligent manner! Whpew! Done!

Hahaha thats me when I hear people call nitrous systems NOS. NOS is a brand that just happens to deal in some great nitrous kits (ever heard of Zex, TNT, etc. ???). Thats ok I just let it slide now hahaha.

here is a little somthing the new cars people are putting spoliers on look stopid and they are not doing anny thing because most of the cars people are puting them on are frount wheel drive
i have done some looking on line and a spolire is just mostley for looks a wing aplys down force but i call them wings. i live in new york and ther is quite a few kids runing around with wings that are as tall as the roof of their cars. i call them ladder rack wings.

I have a spoiler. Kids with a 2 foot tall hunk of aluminum on their trunk have wings.