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NeilBlanchard · 03-07-2012, 03:09 PM

Another streamliner from Germany in the 1930's -- they apparently had some of the best highways and could drive fast enough for aero drag to really matter. Here's the 1937 Adler Trumpf:

The Cd of a very similar car is noted at 0.23, and it was raced at Le Mans by the first woman driver ever in that race; named Anne-C cile Rose-Itier.

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