[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Funny

Indeed to stay on topic... The Benz Boxfish, the Aptera, the EV1 (not so much), design are radical aerodynamic designs that are hard to swallow in this current day-and-age's thinking. They are just weird to some people.

We have all heard from Basjoos about all the looks he gets, and anytime one of us makes an aerodynamic mod that is well, ugly..., for lack of a better word because ugliness is relative, it exposes the public to something they haven't seen before. That is one of the reasons that most cars today have the guppy mouth opening, along with a slew of other drag inducing additions to an otherwise "clean" body. They were widely accepted in the past, why not keep using them.

If we continue showing the public what aerodynamics can do for them, we'll just be the beginning of the wave of acceptance. I think that if all manufacturers were required to make an aerodynamic version of a current popular model using a body kit and selling it for an extra $1000, you would have people like us, just not as extreme, lined up at the doors waiting to buy them. In short, there is a market for radically aerodynamic vehicles, it is just in its infancy.

Rant over...

Historically,the Boxfish and Aptera would have been radical in 1922.