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Old 01-30-2019, 02:43 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
You can't tell me these two cars have the exact same drag but Ford does.
They might! Once more for the folks in back, we can't tell by looking. If we could, then you would know that this car:



...has a higher drag coefficient than this car:



...just by looking at them. Only you wouldn't unless you looked it up, because you would think that the extra scoops for cooling and the huge wing out back would significantly increase the Cd of the Porsche compared to the Viper. But it doesn't--the Porsche's Cd is 14 counts lower.

(Also, the picture of the 2019 Ram I posted is a 4x2, surprisingly. Did you know that the 4x2 has had more ground clearance than the 4x4 for several years now?).
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