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Originally Posted by aerohead
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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So trucks have been redesigned (comparing an '88 tacoma to a '08 tacoma) for the better and it might be a 20% improvement, but are the auto makers still "redesigning" pickups or is the best option now just an aeroshell?