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Old 06-25-2009, 12:36 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Name that Eco Car! Quiz: identify these aerodynamic production cars

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Third quiz in the series: identify these (relatively) slippery production cars with drag coefficients of 0.28 or better. A somewhat international selection of vehicles from past and present makes up this quiz.

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Old 06-25-2009, 01:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I missed the Camry, the latest Prius, latest Insight and the Lexus. Got all the other lesser known correct, go figure!

EDIT: Sorry, didn't think about it when I reported the bug. In the future feel free to edit my posts!
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Old 06-25-2009, 01:13 PM   #3 (permalink)
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90% here, I got the Hyundai and the Lexus at the end wrong.
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Old 06-25-2009, 01:33 PM   #4 (permalink)
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19/21 = 90%.

I missed 2 non-US cars.
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Old 06-25-2009, 01:39 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Thanks for the bug report. Fixed! I was madly fixing bugs as you were all taking it. (Did you see any PHP errors? I think I might have crashed Kitai's browser at one point :P)

I got 100%! But I can't tell the Hyundai from a Lexus. I didn't even know about that Hyundai until I started researching. I'm sure I would have gotten those wrong if I hadn't compiled the freaking thing.

Any glaring omissions? Mostly I was working from the Wikipedia list, but also double-checking numbers because it's incomplete, and some are wrong (or debatable).
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Old 06-25-2009, 01:47 PM   #6 (permalink)
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The Insight2 and Prius3 images were a little harder than usual.

The Insight because it was a slightly weird angle.

I purposely cropped the Prius3 to make it a little bit more of a challenge - less detail.
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Hi,

I got 100% on the hybrid cars and 84% on the electric -- and I missed the @!#%#@$ Tesla! How did I do that?

On this aero cars quiz, I got 76% - slightly better than average. I missed the last Lexus -- which naturally was my *other* choice...
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Old 06-25-2009, 02:02 PM   #8 (permalink)
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The prius 3 is easy to identify because of its funky front quarter panels that have a spike in the headlight.
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Old 06-25-2009, 04:41 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Got 90% 19/21

I saw a Mazda logo. Y'all got some more photoshoppin' to do!
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