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Old 10-12-2020, 04:09 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sgtlethargic View Post
How so, when the Gen1 Honda Insight is 0.25?
Yep, and the Insight is now 20 years old. 0.28 is nothing special at all today.

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Would you say the car necessarily has a higher drag coefficient? I could see a scale model missing some drag that the fully functioning car has. But are scale models inaccurate due to size?
Drag coefficient testing of models is notoriously inaccurate.

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The Wikipedia page claimed it was the lowest drag car for 30 years. It seems that low number would've been challenged in that time, but then again, maybe not.
Some people believe all sorts of numbers!

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