View Single Post
Old 10-13-2021, 11:29 AM   #3867 (permalink)
aerohead
Master EcoModder
 
aerohead's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A.
Posts: 16,272
Thanks: 24,394
Thanked 7,363 Times in 4,763 Posts
VW platform

Quote:
Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
They'll always have photo-chromic spray-on compound curve LED screens to work with.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/t...tos-40808.html

edit: I think one would make that basic body shape with a VW Beetle floorpan, tube roll cage with fenders integrated and a cut-down Previa windshield. Sound feasible?
Seems like one could put 'anything' on an air-cooled VW platform.
1) That basic body would be problematic though, as Buchheim et al. found out when they tried to do the same thing to create the VW 2000.
2) The severely-slanted windshield created intolerable forward vision light refraction.
3) Same at the rear.
4) From Elliott G. Reid's 1935 aero research at Stanford University, we can anticipate that the full-width rear track will cost them. Losing the plan-view taper down the flanks cost Reid 16% in added drag.
__________________
Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/
  Reply With Quote
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to aerohead For This Useful Post:
freebeard (10-13-2021), NeilBlanchard (10-14-2021)