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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
They did it more to make a statement than anything. Why doesn't the new Insight have skirts?
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Dunno.
It's also a lot less efficient.
So is the CR-Z.
Dunno over there, but neither are selling well in Belgium.
The only CR-Z I've seen driving around so far was a test car at the dealer's.
I've seen more Bentleys than that
New insights are few and far between.
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Loremo (no skirts) at .20 Cd is better than Insight with (.25 or .26).
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Is that for the original or the revised design ?
No production values though, as there's no production car.
If ever, as it's been eerily quiet around Loremo.
(I've been on their waiting list from 2005. The mail server still worked last July, sending out birthday wishes to its subscribers.)
It'd have been even better with skirts.
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They are consistently at or near the top in sales.
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And a large contributor to the very mediocre average MPG on new cars in the US.
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Skirts- as we know them- very much impede checking and airing tires.
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Innovations like the Michelin Tweel will make that unnecessary.
Won't be for tomorrow though, but it's coming.
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Nobody caught my rationale re: narrowed rear tracks eh? Ignore it at your peril... It's true and it's on the mark.
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There's plenty of cars with a slightly narrower rear track.
Not as much as would be needed for skirts though.
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I'm well aware of having to design for THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.
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If everybody kept designing for that, we'd still be driving Flintstone-mobiles.