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Old 05-18-2013, 06:35 PM   #20 (permalink)
ChazInMT
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
... the roofline at 11-degrees of downslope,which happens to coincide with the Aerodynamic Streamlining Template.
The lowest drag recorded for the car happened to occur with this roofline.
.....violated a contractual agreement with Giorgetto Giugiaro


Here's an 11° Golf roof with the template overlay.




And a Bigger Version of the same

They shoulda listened to Hucho! Who names their kid Giorgetto anyway?

This is an interesting idea though.

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