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Old 01-16-2014, 01:28 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
It comes down to the committee who determines the technical specifications and respecting what the stylist has penned for the design.
An example would be the original VW Golf/Rabbit which could have had Cd 0.34,instead of Cd 0.43,but the car would not 'look' like what the stylist drew,so it was a non-starter.
I have had win8 issues and reinstalled the OS several times in the last week or two. Somewhere in there, I lost my version of the diagram. I did not see that you had figured out the angles and discussed them until I tried to find the picture that I posted.

Let's say I make a CarXist. Should I follow the Template or just cut an angle from the windshield to the rear bumper?

The original version of the chart does not make sense to me, especially compared to the next chart that you posted, where the closer that semi trailers followed the template, the more aerodynamic they were.

CarXist! That sounds like way too much work!
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