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Originally Posted by aerohead
I've been working through the 80-90 year old German research. Using the fuselage research reported by S.Hoerner as a guide in comparison to streamlined development models of the gods of vehicle aerodynamics,it looks like the lower limit for cars with boat tails is in the neighborhood of Cd 0.115.
I've been working for a couple-three weeks on this but am not ready to do the thread yet,but I would tell everyone today,that Cd 0.115 is a reasonable expectation.We can fight over the 'practicality' issue separately.
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I eagerly await that thread.
Meanwhile, I'm very curious what a car with Cd 0.115 includes. Does it have mirrors? Front and rear wheel skirts? Ground clearance?