Thread: frontal area vs cd
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Old 02-10-2016, 02:55 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by arklan View Post
is it better to have a car with low cd or low frontal area?
Yes.

All kidding aside, it's much easier to lower the Cd of an existing vehicle than to change the frontal area.
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