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Old 08-26-2020, 12:32 PM   #52 (permalink)
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go measure

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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar View Post
Just having a quick look at the forum.

(My emphasis added to above quote.)

This is absolute rubbish. Just go and measure some car profiles and see for yourself. Honestly, saying something again and again doesn't make it true!

A fastback contour, compared to say a squareback, has far more lift.
Researchers that are WAY above your pay grade have done the measurements and published before we were even born. It would be STUPID on my part to duplicate such an expensive undertaking, only to arrive at the same result.
CAR and DRIVER tested a 'template' car at the A2 Wind Tunnel. It produced zero-lift. My 'template' pickup truck measured zero-lift.
You've never experienced a 'streamlined' car before, so you wouldn't have a first-order-reality experience with them. That, however, does not prove their inexistence.
Exceptio probat regulam.
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