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Originally Posted by MechEngVT
Personally I don't care for the appearance of 20s/30s era floating fenders, but if you do it's your car. I do think they make aero design harder.
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That's something I wonder about. There are two rather contradictory factors at work (at least to design a car to my taste): you want a rather wide front stance for stability, but a narrower passenger compartment. So is it aerodynamically better to have the wheels within a wide front bodywork (like modern cars) then taper rearwards, or have them in outboard wheel pants, like Aptera?