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Old 05-07-2009, 11:44 PM   #12 (permalink)
trebuchet03
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Looks awesome... Could you potentially post a few pictures of the cockpit? Or any build information/documentation?

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I am Ford Motor Companies Fuel Economy Technical Expert. After working for over 20 years improving conventional production car/truck FE I wanted to try something with fewer constraints.
As an Engineer for a major automaker, do you feel more or less frustrated given today's styling constraints compared to 10 or 20 years ago? I'm just curious


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I'm really interested in your vehicle (alas, not to buy - I'm just graduating ) -I've spent the past 5 years working on human powered vehicles like


(The ostentatiously orange one)
and

(Background: 2 Wheeler - Foreground: 3 Wheeled Tadpole Trike)


I love your faired suspension/wishbone setup, looks beautiful..... I'm curious if/how you quantified a .16 cD? And, as the builder, what would you do differently next time (a question I constantly ask myself on the vehicle's I've worked on/built)?

Sorry for all the questions
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