View Single Post
Old 06-06-2012, 03:48 AM   #27 (permalink)
ecomodded
Drive less save more
 
ecomodded's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Vancouver Island, Canada
Posts: 1,189

Dusty - '98 VOLKSWAGEN Beetle TDI
TEAM VW AUDI Group
90 day: 60.42 mpg (US)
Thanks: 134
Thanked 162 Times in 135 Posts
I'm taking the other side of the fence with the Cd values, The only thing in the wind is the front end. The middle and rear end are traveling behind a wind block, the amount of drag induced by that end will be next to non existent,it takes advantage of the otherwise wasteful large wake.

My car has a 0.38 Cd so my guesstimate is it has to be more then 1/3 less drag then my beetle, more like 1/2 so the Cd is about 19.
__________________
Save gas
Ride a Mtn bike for errands exercise entertainment and outright fun
__________________



  Reply With Quote