kapusta

The sad part that it gives you a double whammie when it comes to power loss:
1) it restricts the intake thus allowing less air to reach the engine.
2) it adds significant turbulence which cause significant loss of air velocity entering the engine which result in even more power loss.

tex_phil

Your better off removing the floor mats. This is one case where that suggestion might help compared to tornado.

v_therussian

Now, if he was talking about lending brains, then I see how that could somehow work, though I'm shady on the colloquial definition and certain non-hetero associations might come up - not that there's anything wrong with that