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Originally titled "why dont we have bubblecars yet?"

I mean commercially... and for a reasonable price, not some greedy guy selling it for more than i'd ever save in gas to drive something ugly. With all the kitcars that are out there i'm surprised there arent "perfect aero" bodykits that don't compromise. The automakers are too dumb, they want something that they think 18 year old kids will find stylish and sexy, whereas what I want is a way to drop drag from 0.30 (where it seems to be fairly well pinned) to something like 0.159 like the 235mpg VW 1 Litre instead, whether i'm driving a subcompact, a midsize, a van, or much of anything else. The only thing that should change much is frontal area, with whatever size the vehicle has to be being appropriate whether its a 2 passenger, 6 passenger, or four row seating passenger van.

Or are the car shapes we have actually pretty good and all we need to do is add wheel covers, whaletail, tape some seams and block off the radiator to get pretty close to this figure?