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the 'ideal' form for a road vehicle is neither an axisymmetric teardrop nor a half teardrop, but a cambered version, slightly flattened on the underside, with the optimum geometry being dependent on the ground clearance.
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My octahedral geodesic aeroform isn't a half teardrop, more of a Dymaxion. It's asymmetrical top to bottom and front to back. Supporting examples would be the fuselage of the ME-262 or Aeron26. The only changes I'd make today would be a concave truncation/boxed cavity or the Magic B*tt Trumpet.
In this case shown on a [mathematically definable]
superelliptic cross-section rather than geodesic.