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Old 12-06-2014, 06:16 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Big time View Post
If Ferrari and Lamborghini only focused on low drag and downforce their cars would look like this

They make a big tradeoff for aesthetics so their cars look quite different from the depicted model.
Aesthetics, dynamic performance, cooling, Centre of Gravity... The list goes on.

Case in point is any car that targets the mass-production high speed record. Why don't they use that low-drag design? Because the power needed to reach those speeds also required a huge amount of cooling. Something that really dogged the Bugatti Veyron throughout its development. You also have to make it a perform at all speeds upto that max speed, so that's low centre of mass, suspension geometry and downforce.
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