This video contains **SPOILERS**

"THOSE GIANT ASS SPOILERS" - Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Spoilers for superspeedways, wings for everything else. Shouldn't they be calling it the Car of Yesterday at this point?

To be honest I loved the CoT cars, wing or spoiler in terms of looks, especially on diecast

The wings always broke off on my diecasts

I like the wing better, reminds me a bit of V8 Supercars But I prefer Spoiler w/ bumper over Spoiler with splitter, however these seemed a little strange compared to gen 4 cars as these looked VERY boxy

I actually really liked how the wing looked on the CoT.

I still love the 2011-12 Dodge Charger Cup car.

Crazy how the wings were only around for 2 full seasons and 2 partials. Felt like an eternity at the time

In 2008, I got a Jeff Gordon 1 : 24 die cast for Christmas. I live in Canada, and didn't actively watch NASCAR, but I did like it (as a 9 year old young boy who saw fast looking cars, and did not care or even know about the CoT compared to previous generations). I LOVED the die cast, and still have it. It had a plastic wing that broke off day 1. Some how, I did not loose it, and still have the wing. I never fixed it. Just a neat story from my past.

I’d pay a large amount of money to see Gen 4’s run in one series. Similar to the way Xfinity was slow to change their car designs. The look of those cars is NASCAR there’s a reason it went *relatively* unchanged for sooo long.

Honestly i loved both It described the era of the sport The old boys were heading out and these young kids coming in The gen 4 left and the COT came in

The 2011-12 cars looked amazing but the first time I followed NASCAR full time was in 2009, so those winged cars will always be my favorite

The COT Era is what I grew up with when watching NASCAR as a kid. The spoiler COT Cars were really cool and I loved watching them, but the wing Era was just something different, and I loved it. Wing or spoiler, I just loved the COT Era.

Personally I prefer the 2010-2012 spoiler era of the COT because I believe the racing was better in those years.

None if this would matter if the Cars weren't areo sensitive

Spoiler easily. Smoke vs Edwards homestead 2011. I rest my case

2011 was the first full time season I watched until 2019. DAMN I was spoiled, that year was great!

Wings are called wings for a reason... They make things fly... *Mind blown* 🤯 lol

Wing = Dangerous disaster ahead Spoiler= safer, tandem drafting at superspeedways

2010 was my first year as a fan so that look with the exposed splitter and normal spoiler will always have a special place in my heart

You know when some people say how cars just look like toys. Almost every time I see the COT, I see that thought applying to it.

In 2009 they got rid of the spoiler, and it was the most competitive season yet. Dick Trickle used to take his off in the late 2000’s because the drag would take away his speed. All you need is a higher bumper and radial tires to make the rear stick.

Can we just acknowledge how he used the Hate Me instrumental

I loved the CoT, the design is just awesome to look at

I will always, always love the earliest versions of the CoT. The splitters and the wings really gave these cars a new feel for the 7 year old self of mine taking them in on TV for the first time. I'd seen a lot of Nascar up until that point but the radically new cars really threw me into it rabbit hole. I was obsessed with the winged designs, and the hard edges into the front end to accomodate the splitter. It all tied together to make those cars ultimately the coolest thing my 7 year old brain had seen. And to this day I still wish I could have seen them in their glory, in the flesh. Great video, as always!

Anyone that says wing deserves the 2019 package.

I think what I enjoyed most was that thanks to this aero package (2011,12, and then really got going 2013 to even 2016) was seeing track records tumble. Almost every track record was broken except Daytona, Talladega, and Atlanta and I might be missing one more but still

I still get mad over the finish of the Coke 600 in 2011 because that was the first time I thought my favorite driver Dale Jr. was gonna win, until he ran out of fuel coming off of Turn 4. That still upsets me to this day.

The only wing I like is the 1969 Dodge Daytona

My most favorite car series ever! They're what got me loving the sport. The spoiler really made it look like the quintessential race car so I gotta go with that

That COT Model looked like a Xfinity Series Car

The name of the background music is very appropriate

The wing looked cool But You can never beat the spolier

Spoiler looked so good with the redesigned front end. Something about the boxy look. That thing is PERFECT! At 4:51

Never forget how beautiful the Nationwide/ xfinity series bodies were during this time!

I personally loved the idea of a wing and the way those cars raced. I also loved the radical look of the exposed splitter. I feel like a type of wing could make a comeback to the current or next gen cars along side more flaps in the back of the car to keep them grounded and we could see some of the best racing ever in stock car history

Reminds me back in 2010 - 2011 when EA lost its license to NASCAR. I was just playing Gran Turismo 5 and man the COTs of 2011 were hella fun to drive in that game it was at a time when NASCAR was at its peak.

I think the flips were a combo of the wing and the roof flaps as the cars don't start to flip till the flaps deploy. Otherwise every other race series with wings would the have the same problem.

The crash at 2:35 made it look like in IndyCar

I feel like most people who prefer the wing became nascar fans during the COT era. The splitter is the biggest issue. It creates so much downforce the cars are aero sensitive, and it becomes an issue when any car slides into the grass. Bring back the valence!

I worked back then for JGR and a standing point of aerodynamic was more effective the Wing but I couldn’t understand why was so refused by fans. Course I was a totally rookie didn’t know the whole story about what a cup car was back in the years.

Dale Jr's National Guard COT was one of my personal favorites from that era

I liked the spoiler with the valence/splitter combo from 2011-2012. I feel like the car looked great and produced amazing racing, especially with the tandoms!

Call me crazy, but i think the COT's had some of the best racing that I can remember of. and I think everybody can agree that 2011-2012 was the overall best era from the COT's

Both? Both. Both... Both. Both is good.

I loved the spoiler, but blow overs and the redundancy of such a wing on an oval speed blob made them a bad aero choice. BUT they should be a thing for road courses and short track FOR SURE, since downforce plays a much bigger role to keep these aircraft carriers under control in medium speed corners. Would definately open them up to better racing at better tracks.

I like the spoiler in the 2012 car but the 2008 national guard amp Chevrolet was looking pretty good with that wing

Myself being a follower of NASCAR dating back over 50 years, it amazes me just how *BIG* the spoilers are with the current crop of cars. If you were to take a look at images of NASCAR racers from many decades ago, the spoilers were barely noticeable along the rear trunk line. The current Cup cars are about the same size as the Grand American pony cars that raced in NASCAR 50 years ago, and the rear spoilers for those cars were about half-sized to what the Cup cars are using in the 21st Century.

COT era remember my childhood and when I start to watch NASCAR in 2008.

The second version of the COT from 2011 onward I 100% agree was a great looking car and I remember turning on the Budweiser shootout practice and just watching the speeds climb. The exposed splitter from 07 to 2010 was hideous

The wing broke off on my 2009 Jeff Gordon 1:24 die cast, so I made a spoiler out of electrical tape and it looks like a 2010 cot post-martinsville.

I love how the wings look tbh

To this day I really enjoy the look of the winged COT. For some context, in the early to mid 2000's, I'm sure many remember how popular Japanese sports cars were, as well as modifying said cars, along with American and European sport/compact cars in crazy ways with body kits, wings, paint jobs, whatever you can think of, and at the same time I was just a kid who was really interested in those types of cars and any form of media attached to them. My interest in NASCAR came further down the line, but I remember seeing the cars for the first time in 2006/7 and thinking how cool they looked and the similarities to the previously described modified cars of the time. You may not have been liked by many winged COT, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.

The rear wing was my childhood, the 2011-2012 version of the COT'S were simple and great as well. Just in general I love the COT

The wing was also used on Lightning McQueen in cars 2

They needed to put something similar to the roof flaps on the wing and that I believe would have helped with the airborne issue. The new bumpers with that change I think would have looked good and provided some really good racing as well.

If there was a flip or terrible crash in 2007/2008 due to the wing, I bet the spoiler would’ve been right back on the car in 2009.

wing looks very drag-like car, that’s why I love it ❤️

Something I've always wondered since the pattern of the winged cars flipping became apparent, was if removing the roof flaps could have helped keep them on the ground.

I liked the big wings. I thought the splitters from 08-10 were okay, but I didn't really like the cables. The ones from 11-12 were good though

The fun thing if that if it wasn't for the wing stalling out airflow to the roof flaps creating a huge safety risk, I'd prefer the wing overall. As for the racing, idk. I still think it's actually what's happening from the rear wheels back that's causing more issues than anything else right now.

My favorite style cars were pre COT cars. They looked sleek and '02-'06 were my favorite years of NASCAR. At first, i liked the wing but i hated the racing. I laughed so hard when Kyle Busch said the cars sucked in victory lane in at Bristol in the COT's first race back in '07. So i guess my favorite COT is the one W/O the wing. The 2012 COT. But can these tracks go to turf instead of grass? The splitters dig into the grass and demolish the front ends. A valance eliminates that from happening when a car hits grass.

Ive loved the wing and still do

I honestly love the wing

Mechanic grip will be awesome because it won’t really be aero depent and if we have a cup composite body it will be awesome

I feel like this body style could be re-used for an American V8 Supercar series or a NASCAR Super Stock League

I personally loved the wing. Of course it had its safety flaws but some of the best races ever happened with these cars especially at tracks like Bristol, Dover, plate tracks, and tracks like New Hampshire, Michigan, and Auto Club. This is my favorite era of nascar and it was always fun watching and asking who wins this week considering the fact that this was when a lot of unpredictability could happen. Just look at Reagan smith taking the garbage DEI equipment he had and snagging a win at talladega

I do love the look of winged CoT cars, but I think an issue was is that when it came designing the Gen 5 CoT cars, not much thought came into the aerodynamic side of things. The safety was more the priority of the cars, and when drivers complained about the handling nothing was really done of it til in the later years of the Gen 5 with the switch back to the spoil and the addition of the thicker nose. Just the issue with the wing is that it just wasn’t doing the justice of downforce as say a GT car. If anything the way it was it was only good for producing drag and send cars flying when a car got turned and the air just lifted the car since it had no place to go. If they’d just raised the wings more to where it’d actually do something aero wise and not put the car airborne in a s🅱️in. Like GT4 cars for example. I hell u can put a GT4 type wing on the Next Gen cars and u wouldn’t have to deal with the stupid changing the spoiler size. You’d have one size wing for every track, maybe a lower downforce trim for say Daytona and Talladega, but it would be cool if NASCAR tried again with the wings but had a proper GT3 style wing, it’d probably work a lot better than the CoT wings and still bring style to the Next Gen cars. But sadly I don’t think it’d happen. A cool thought though if NASCAR does it right.

Cars used to flip violently when the flaps deployed

I might have to go with the wing, just because that’s what they ran at New Hampshire in 2007 at my first nascar race

Imagine If The Gen 6 Car Had A Wing On The Car Still To This Day ?

Personally, I prefer the spoiler, but also like the wing. If they continued to use the wing in 2011-12, it would not look well, mainly because it would look a little offputting, and it would continue with stability issues.

I remember there was a lot of talk about the wings and splitters were NASCAR's way of forcing drivers to stop bump drafting. Honestly, I think that theory carries quite a bit of water.

Also starting in 2011 no open front splitter. I think if the cot looked like it did in 2012 when it was released in 2007, I think the gen 6 would've been released later and better racing

I personally loved the wing. I remember NASCAR at certain tracks would switch out the winglets to a carbon fiber winglet or an aluminum winglet. I also love it because it was also sticker space for sponsors. Hate to see it go but safety was indeed important.

Personally, I think that the spoiler was better because I think if they kept using the wing especially at superspeedways There would’ve been a lot more flips and possibly more injuries. I think going to a spoiler in 2010 was a good choice by NASCAR.

to me the superspeedway COT for 2012 looks soo good, and since I was between 6-7 when the COT wing era was I personally liked the cars but compared to the Gen4 ..., yeah I prefer the Gen4 MILES over the COT wing

I never really cared all that much about what the cars themselves looked like. In retrospect the boxy COT does look strange but in the moment I was just like, "Oh, Jimmy Johnson's winning again ." What I want brought back more than anything else is consistent paint schemes from one race to the next. I know the way financing works that's not very likely but it just used to be so much easier to tell who was who. I was at New Hampshire a couple weeks ago and I lost track of who was where all the time because I just didn't recognize the cars. Make the bodies look like whatever, but make the paint schemes recognizable from one race to the next. As an aside, thanks to iRacing I've really fallen in love with the late 80s cars. Bring those bodies back please :D

I know some people do have disdain for this era but looking back I quite liked it. I mean 2008 was kinda meh racing wise but 2009 was a big step and the rest of the years followed up really well too.

I like the winged COTs

I liked both of it, CoT cars look really cool with both of it

The best COT Car was no COT Car. Just got back and watch the Gen 4 races. The cars raced so much better. It is my belief that all the safety integrations could have easily been put into the Gen 4 and NASCAR would still be rocking and rolling until this day. The COT is when NASCAR started going down hill.

The COT look was 100000% designed to cash in on the tuner car hype after the first few fast and the furious movies.

I stopped watching NASCAR not long after the 2009 Talladega race (started watching again in 2017), so I had no idea the COT used a spoiler at any point. I had just assumed in was the Gen 6.

I don't know why everyone was acting like stock cars never got airborne before the wing came. The cars were way more airborne prone before the wing than during or after the COT. No matter how hard you try, you can not defeat the laws of physics and since lift off speed is between 150-175mph, any car plane or boat going that fast will have a tendency to lift off the ground no matter it's aerodynamic construction

Tbh, I actually prefer the looks of the wing spoiler, but due to the crashes I have to prefer the flat spoiler.

Straight up I liked the wing look as it was different. However I don’t really understand what the wing did differently/ better than the spoiler. It probably wouldn’t happen but it’d be cool to have different setups for different tracks, like for short tracks have the wings, and for the high speed tracks have spoilers.

Spoiler of course The wing came along during a COT test at the Atlanta Motor Speedway courtesy of driver Brett Bodine who thought it was a better handling race car. Brett aside from his pace car duties with NASCAR is part of the safety development team for the series.

As far as looks I like the smooth front and spoiler from 11-12 but the racing was best with the wing

Second. Gotta be the wing

Both look good in a certain way but when I think nascar I think of the car from dale srs last win at talladega in 2000 with the neon red spoiler and 3 on top with the neon red accent across the bottom of the front bumper. In my opinion that car is awesome. Wonder what he would have thought of the wings

i loved the cot cars

I'm happy they brought back the spoiler in 2010 I liked the ones from 2011 to 2012

Wing definitely does look cooler in my opinion

Bumpers and Spoilers, splitters are hurting so much as well as sideforce

I actually thought the wing looked cooler but the racing with the spoiler was fantastic. The high COG and lack of downforce really made this era of NASCAR fun to watch.

The CoT is basically you going in Forza and slapping on the forza front lip and wing aero lamo

I liked the racing of the spoiler better but I kind of liked the look of the wing and I think that might be a reason that I like the IMSA and WEC GT cars is the spoiler look plus those cars just look awesome

There has to be some thing they can do with the spoiler like making it work as a flap if the car gets spun around.