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Old 12-10-2014, 07:47 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hypermiler1995 View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you are describing is larger frontal area, not cd, you could make a 1/2 scale model of any car, and the cd would be the same, the frontal area would change, and thus the cda would change. Is this correct?
Yes! If,say your model had half the frontal area,then its overall drag would be half the original's.
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