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Old 07-24-2008, 05:15 PM   #22 (permalink)
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basic re- design

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Originally Posted by extragoode View Post
What exactly is meant by basic redesign? Buy a car?
You have to put the research in context of the state-of-the-art in pickup design at the time the paper was published(1988).You could take a current production truck and aero-mod it to get a 20% drag reduction,or the carmakers could design more aerodynamically efficient production pickups with 20% less drag.
That's the context.
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