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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
This is one reason that I keep posting. You have been sucked in: you are working on the fallacious notion that the template = the lowest drag shape for a road vehicle.
That is simply not so:
I guess when the accepted - but incorrect - wisdom has been in place for so long, it's hard to see the wood for the trees.
Or do you really think the Honda Insight designers made some sort of concession to styling on the angle of the rear hatch? That really they wanted a larger wake to match the template - but stylists said no?
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* All three shown would fail, on skin friction, compared to the template. They'd fail on usable interior volume. Center of gravity. Approach, break-over, and departure angles would have to be considered.
* You'll find it structurally impossible to defend your thesis about the template. The fluid mechanics leading to it'd genesis are watertight. Unimpeachable.
* Decades of dimensional analysis were involved in arriving at the template. If you'd had the courtesy to actually read the threads you would have known that long ago. It wasn't the result of some half-baked brain ejaculation as you're fond of burdening us with.
* Go ahead. Pick it apart. Let's see what you're made of.