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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Hmmm, what does the clear advantage Shape 1 enjoys over Shapes 2 and 3 say about the unimportance of the leading edge shape?
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The numbers are what they are.What the automakers will say,including Hucho,is that we'd never be able to see out of it due to internal reflections.With safety vehicles fore and aft on a race course we might be able to suffer through,but for a daily driver it looks like a non-starter.
If we try to use the shape for a body,it's impossibly long and with no ramp clearance.It can't be altered in any way without sacrificing the 0.045.
Oskar Teitgens got Cd 0.08 out of a self-propelled passenger rail car in 1933 or so with a body kinda like this.