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Old 09-19-2008, 08:56 AM   #17 (permalink)
lunarhighway
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not to fond of the looks, but it might be it's american styling... and the fact that it's still desinged to get noticed, but in the end that's just styling. i'm glad they did alter the original design extensively to get better aero, although GM is not short of designs on the 0.3 - 0.28 Cd range.
all the way up to 80's you find practical designs that have reasonable good aero. if they'd used those cars in the wind tunnel and took them trough another session the might end up in the sub 0.26 range (wich they touched with the calibra....)

the good think is the volt seems to have the overall dimentions of an average car wich sugests the technology might not take to long to trickle down to other GM cars... with strong rumors for a hybrid version of the next gen opel meriva and corsa the ones who killed the electric car might help resurect it.

but for now "we'll see"
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