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Originally Posted by kach22i
That's what I thought, but the front (Zones 1 & 2) ability to funnel air to the rear so that it stays attached should have a importance factor or something assigned to it. Something like 25% front, 75% rear importance ratios?
I gotta get a look at them books soon.
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Neil, yes I've seen that one it comes off like a Dick Tracy car, like a 1930's vision of the future. I'm not a huge fan of it, but see the beauty of it's intent if not it's aesthetic execution. I'm hoping to pull off something a little more timeless yet modern. |
Hucho would say that the front of the car has been unimportant since the debut of the 1st-gen VW Rabbit/Golf in the 1970s.
In the 'Flow-Images thread you can see this car in VW's climatic wind tunnel.Hucho himself was part of the streamlining optimization team responsible for the final production design.
Any automobile that has at least as much leading edge radius as the Rabbit is 'good to go' as far as aft-body streamlining.
A JEEP of this time period would not qualify,just as its offspring(Wrangler) or HUMMER H-1 would not today.
But for automobiles,it's a done deal,especially when you consider that all of today's pickups and SUVs have lower drag coefficients than Corvette did when the Rabbit first went on sale.
The back of a cars body is good for a 300% drag reduction.
The front is good for about 58%.