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Originally Posted by aerohead
It's not obvious to me at all. I have no way to vet what Motor Trend publishes, one way or another.
I've said nothing about wind tunnel working numbers.
I simply stated that, in order to satisfy 6.3% higher drag than the value which was provided, required 6-decimal place accuracy.
Do you want this thread turned off also? When I tell you what I think about your knowledge of wind tunnels?
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Well, we can now add that you don't know much about car magazines, too! Motor Trend would simply have been quoting Fiat, and Fiat would have provided the 6.3 per cent as a rounded number.
To even try to pretend that the figure was
exactly 6.3 per cent, and therefore solving for the Cd of the 500 pop requires calculations to 6 decimal places, is typical of the sort of mental knots you tie yourself in when trying to prove your point. It's pretty sad.