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Originally Posted by freebeard
Aerohead -- I found your Bonneville post. I also rediscovered this picture this morning. Perhaps it is what started my thought process. It out-boxes the boxfish.
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It would be nice if Honda published a Cd for the pictured car,then we'd know what we were 'looking' at.Have you seen the Honda P-NUT?
Some of the current minis are running on the order of Cd 0.3.
If you wanted lower drag you'd have to extend the rear.
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If you'd like to depart from the 'Template,' you might want to find out all you can about Wolfgang Klemperer's 'minivan' of Cd 0.16 (in naked model form) which he tested in 1921.Klemperer was a doctoral student working under Paul Jaray at the Zeppelin Werke.This 'minivan' is what VW used as the basis for the VW 2000 concept car.
I might be more excited about it if there was more data available on it.After extensive shaping in their new wind tunnel,VW got a 'production-ready' model to about Cd 0.25.
If you weren't interested in going below Cd 0.16 it would be a good way to go.