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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Taking from aircraft design, very small and pointed to reduce the square foot plate equivalent
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The Prandtl/Lanchester surface of discontinuity created by the air itself creates a 'pointed' nose, as illustrated in Lanchester's 1907 text.
Since the nose is the 'least' important part of a car's body, for sub-sonic flow, the 'bulbous' nose is considered ideal. It will create the 'point' automatically, with less material, less mass, less tooling, less radical pressure gradients in yaw, etc..
'Paris Dressmakers' may dislike it.
Wheelophiles probably won't care for enclosed wheelhouses, which remain the state-of-the-art for low drag.