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Old 06-27-2009, 04:01 PM   #18 (permalink)
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That looks very oversimplified to me, too. The "ideal" shape is impossible, having no ground clearance. The Corvair Greenbrier wagon, which looked like the offspring of a VW van married to a Chinese Pagoda, still lucked out with a phenomenally low drag.
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