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Old 06-10-2012, 08:10 PM   #24 (permalink)
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an '09 corolla is only .29? too bad they couldn't beat a car from 14 years ago, the '98 concorde had a Cd of .288, was bigger, and had more power.
I would make the weak(?) argument that the 1998 Concorde was from the end of the "streamline(?) fashion" era. If you look at the cars from the late 1980's and early 1990's, the design tends toward clean lines. When I look at this example :



I see the "below headlight" grille and clean/contiguous horizontal lines along the side of the body. About the only thing it needs are wheel covers and a belly pan.

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