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Originally Posted by jamesqf
No, what I understand when I hear "frontal area" is what you'd get if you drove straight into a brick wall - the area of the FRONT of the car.
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If you backed the vehicle through a brick wall the result would be the same.
It shouldn't even be called frontal area but it is. We can't even call it "maximum cross-sectional area" because that wouldn't necessarily be right either. Ah well. People call engines "motors" all the time but we live with it.