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Originally Posted by AeroMcAeroFace
I don't think anyone disagrees that perfectly following the template with a true half body of revolution on a plane is incorrect. That is what that drivers pod is, the perfect and correct use of the template and that shape.
What is incorrect is to say that the shape can be applied universally to non half bodies of revolution, or that a car that doesn't follow the shape is somehow wrong.
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Hucho used 'optimum' and 'ideal' interchangeably in his 2nd-Edition.
All he said was that, if the design specification for a car included really low drag, then the template would be only the path to that.
We're not discussing consumer acceptance or anything else. Strictly low drag, related to something human beings could sit inside, as they do today.
Hucho provided the quanta. Hucho provided caveats and conditions. It's just technology, waiting in the wings, for 98-years now.