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Old 08-04-2009, 05:49 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Are we gonna do the blunt front end aero thing again???

A big "bubble" gets pushed in front of vehicles. As long as flow is attached at the front/sides/top transition, it's all good.

^P.S. That's a gross oversimplification that ignores underhood airflow, but otherwise I'll stand by it.
This isn't a case of blunt vs pointy, but blunt and sloped back vs blunt and sloped forward... With the added factor of a bumper below the grill helping form a kind of concave parachute shape, at least when viewed from the side.

Seems like the high pressure bubble lunarhighway is talking about within the V profile is very different from the bubble in front of a blunt convex nose.
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