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It would have been a more refined package, but it would have lost the easy comparison to the familiar Ford performance.
It is curious that although Bucky regarded his car as a half-built roadable aircraft with inflatable wings, it was not stable in a glide. One gained a tail fin to help. Other sketches show versions with an inverted V bottom, intended as an "air keel" and a way to lift the rear wheel, with its job being taken over by an air rudder. The sketches don't show the CG moving forward much, though.
Modern cars make much better use of space, too, but we seldom use it.
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There is no excuse for a land vehicle to weigh more than its average payload.
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