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Originally Posted by JasonG
Look at your Avatar Cd.
It may be a larger wake area, but it reattaches smoothly.
The reverse eddies are what create the backwards suction we call drag.
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And more eddies equal more drag and a higher Cd right ?
The sedan ( actually coupe ) would have less of these eddies due to a smaller wake, as well as having the air re-attach just behind the trunk / boot.
Perhaps it is all just a misprint ?
I used to collect much of the same literature as Aerohead.
I had a sales brochure from Saturn that had the Cd figures for their cars and remember being puzzled at how that the Saturn station wagons had the same Cd as the SC-2 .
( it was either the SC-1 or the SC-2 . I can't remember after all these years. )