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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
The Ferrari CR25 was never a production car. It was a one-off concept car.
But now Aerohead says this:
There's either some fuzzy thinking going on here, Aerohead has forgotten what he wrote yesterday, or he is doing his usual trick of changing the definitions of words to suit his weird ideas - you decide.
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You may recall Hucho's explanation on page 201: ' To what extent basic bodies with high fineness ratios can be used as the starting point for vehicle development depends upon the value placed upon low drag in the future.'
According to Hucho, as of 1986, a Cd 0.09 'production' car was technically feasible.
In August, 1990, Sergio Pininfarina wrote in CAR and DRIVER, ' Basically, with the shapes to which the public is accustomed today, we can achieve values of around ( Cd ) 0.25.'
In his ' Low Speed Wind Tunnel Testing,' Alan Pope wrote, ' Drag is currently secondary to appearance...'
There are dozens of examples where 'the law of the Paris Dressmaker determines the product. Hucho mentions it throughput his book.
We had Cd 0.13 in 1922. As a BEV, 'camera' car, this would be 'off-the-shelf' technology.
Sighard Hoerner personally aero modified an 1935, ( Audi ) DKW Meisterklasse, by throwing away the OEM body, and replacing it with a Jaray Kombination-form, instantly reducing the Cd 0.85, to Cd 0.25. ( in 1935 ).
Aero 'production' cars require only a rearrangement of ink on a product specification sheet.