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Originally Posted by aerohead
If the relative wind is 30-degrees off to one side of the vehicle,and as some of the side of the car is now impacting the airstream,the Cd based on frontal projected area goes right out the window...
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So some out-of-the-box thinking... Who says the wheels have to be in line with the body? Let them go straight down the road, while the body crabs to face into the relative wind.
Back when I was logging, we used to run a loader (ex military, IIRC) that would do just this: all four wheels could be turned about 30 degrees to the body while still staying parallel to each other, for getting in & out of tight spots.