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That's my plan. I went to school for industrial design and recognize the importance of appearances. If it costs me a little in drag to make it far more appealing to the average person, the sacrifice is worth it to get the idea of the importance of aerodynamics into the average person's head and show that aero-efficiency might mean different, but doesn't need to mean ugly. The few of us with "weird" or too radically different looking cars won't change an industry and a populace resistant to change, but something that's different, yet familiar and drastically efficient can slowly turn around the huge oil-tanker-with-a-weak-rudder that is the thinking of the populace. The fact that the car will be faster than stock on top of efficient will also help sell since, even if most people never use the power their cars have, they like the idea of it anyway. The only issue of practicality I'll have is being only a single seater as there's no way to fit 2 tandem, but the idea is to get people thinking. The other vehicles I was thinking that would allow the 2-seats, I don't think I could make look appealing enough without costing way too much in time and money which I could use to build a car from scratch instead.
My 3-wheel tadpole designs follow a similar principle in utilizing the familiar proportions of famous tail-dragger WWII fighters.
Sorry to go so far off topic.
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