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Old 03-30-2008, 10:13 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ View Post
You'd think correctly

While I'd be thrilled to know that a stock 5thGen hatch (non VX) has a Cd of .31, I'm not gonna put any money on it.

Here are the numbers I've seen:
0.33
0.32
0.31

We all know that the VX has slightly better aero with the passenger mirror delete and the rear undertray thingie, so that's where (I belive) the 0.31 is coming from.


The Road & Track article ( I'll have to find the issue ) stated that the VX was actually slightly lower than .31 , but did not give an exact amount.
The sedan was a .32 which has always puzzled me, since I would think that the wake would be much smaller on a sedan.

Darin, I sensed that you were a little angry at my post earlier concerning trust of published .Cd figures.
I wasn't saying anyone here was lying about their .Cd, but rather that I was wondering how reliable that published .Cd figures are since, as we have seen, they tend to flutuate even from professional sources.

Last edited by AndrewJ; 03-30-2008 at 06:23 PM..
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