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Old 12-06-2012, 12:54 PM   #4 (permalink)
ChazInMT
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Yeah, surprised me too, I looked at Cd's of a number of cars which have Sedan & Hatch variants and have noticed that even though the Hatch models appear to be a dead ringer for the "Template" they never seem to have a lower Cd. It is another reason I gave up on trying to modify my Civic sedan, there must be something about the modern sedan, when done right, that fairly well optimizes it. I gotta believe there is a team of people whose sole purpose in life at automakers is to get the aero tweeked just so. May not have been that way 15 to 20 years ago, but certainly since.

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