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Originally Posted by Arragonis
You need to look slightly after the period of those cars, GM.
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Yeah, but that was exactly my point, those are all fairly recent in the 60-70 year perspective or if you want the 100 year perspective of the history of the car, the ones that have SOME focus on Aero are in the past 2 decades and less, just as I was pointing out.
I also if you look pointed out the Omega and Calibra from the same era and very similar design as the Senator and Kadett/Astra but those were rather EXCEPTIONS than the norm.
ALL these cars that you are showing are MODERN rather new cars in the perspective I am talking about! When you are showing cars that are a decade or two old, they've all looked fairly similar when it comes to aerodynamics, globally, but again I am not talking about such "new" cars at all...
But none of those not a single one of them have what I would call extreme focus on Aero, which is now SLOWLY but surely creeping into mainstream, with cars like your Prius etc and "efforts" now finally seen by mainstream to incorporate things like kammbacks into the car designs and sealing up gaps in the car body.
I think you are missing the point totally, so I will try to rephrase it. Take the NEWEST models you have posted, and take their general overall design, and I believe you will see that they have VERY LITTLE in common with the cars they "replaced" from the previous decades and have a lot more in common from the rather "early age" of the car as such. 30-40-50's had a lot more rounder and "aero" vehicles than the following decades. So as my thread topic states "In 60 years.." the mainstream auto industry have been at a fairly stand still when it comes to AERO improvements when comparing to other improvements we've seen in the automotive industry!
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Originally Posted by Arragonis
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Actually even the most modern ones of those you posted do NOT outperform CdA values achieved in the 30-50's my point is, that despite such values having been achieved some 60 years ago we STILL drive (most car owners on the globe currently) cars that are FAR from the achieved values back then....