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Originally Posted by RedDevil
I feel Aerohead put it in the banner like that because it is such a dead-beat horse. The fact that roughly about half the fuel consumption at highway speeds is due to aerodynamic drag is something that often comes up in explanations of car aerodynamics to the general public.
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Maybe, But I don't take my aero knowledge from what the general public believes.
Some more accurate thread titles would have been:
- 10%=5%?
- 10%=5% at 55 mph in 1998
- Where I got 10%=5%
etc.
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Nobody on this site believes that the 10%-5% ratio is a precise and immutable truth for all cars in all conditions.
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Sorry, but I have seen it used in that way here - as a rule of thumb to be followed.