Spoilers ahead: Yokohama wants to add fins to your tires

Spoilers make anything car-related better, right? Not usually. When it comes to your tires, though, they might actually help quite a bit.

Adding spoilers to cars — à la the Fast & Furious franchise — is an age-old pastime of gear heads and car enthusiasts alike. Sure, adding a spoiler to your 12-year-old Civic might in actuality make it slower. But, visually, it feels like it's faster with a spoiler ... and isn't that most important?

Unlike the street-racing-obsessed youths, Yokohama, in collaboration with a team from Japan's Tohoku University, is testing some new radial tires complete with spoilers on their sidewalls. Besides making the tires look downright Jurassic, the fins have been proven to improve air flow underneath the car, Yokohama says. Read more...