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Originally Posted by mcrews
do you also believe that the oil companies squashed a carb that got 99mpg???????  |
No, I do not. I'm an engineer and I spend a fair amount of time reading my Hucho. I know the equations. It's all about environment, weight, frontal area, and Cd. It's Cd under discussion.
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Here is something to think about.
Some other german car maker w/ a big windtunnel (bmw maybe) has some engineer come in and say "mb is blowing smoke on the .23 cd......let's go buy one, run the test and then expose them!!" 
2 days later MB is retracting and firing.
Loses MASSIVE credibility in the marketplace.........
just sayin......
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Read your Hucho. There is enough wiggle room between different wind tunnels that such a test would probably prove nothing. Identical testing in the same wind tunnel would be the only convincing test IMO. But, admittedly I am speculating. I just don't see the stuff on the car that translates to .23 when the Insight is .25. Of course, that has not been independently tested either, far as I know
