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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Proportions indicate it's like a rounded Aztek with a boattail, size-wise, and with less rear seat headroom and impossibly big wheels. It does not appear to me to be like a stretched EV1 except if you were simply commenting about the aero styling. The sketch is not communicating the classic Jaray form the text describes i.e. two "airfoil" body components, the lower one oriented horizontally and the upper vertically. The styling line at the base of the greenhouse would need to grow heavier as it goes aft instead of fading out. The sketch looks nice tho' 
As far as the lower airfoil form splitting the air up and down, Hucho describes wind tunnel tests of bullet shaped front ends; some with the stagnation point up high, towards the middle, and down low. The lowest drag came from the "down low" stagnation point, so if one was to go that route the sketch's nose "point" needs to drop down until it's like the old GM Dustbuster minivans except rounded.
The low stagnation point is my personal preference but then there is the Avion and the rest of the WSU cars with their noses way up in the air and claims for low Cd... |
The model is based on Scion xB dimensions, but longer of course. It's got (i think) 215/60/15 tires, so it's reasonable. The sketch is cheated to look cooler.
The model has a lower nose as I am aware of the point of stagnation
but I don't know what you mean by the bold statement. I'll work on the airfoil forms.
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Originally Posted by dkruitz
Is that going to be a mid-engine car? I don't see enough room to put an adult in the front seat with wheel wheels and a front engine compartment to contend with.
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Front engine. Remember, due to the wheels being there people can't sit in the very nose of the car- they wouldn't be able to get out! That's where the engine will be. I'll try to block something in and do a cutaway. No promises though.