Subaru Accidentally Predicted Modern Cars With Its XT Coupe
https://www.carscoops.com/2022/05/su...urbo-xt-coupe/
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While many cars are built with aerodynamics in mind, they are usually economy models, not svelte sports coupes. The design was the responsibility of Kyuchi Akari who lived with an aerodynamic engineer when he was studying car design.
The XT, therefore, has all sorts of tricks to make the air move around it as smoothly as possible, such as flush door handles, retractable wipers, headlight covers, and pop-up headlights. The rear window was also perfectly styled to reduce aerodynamic drag.
Overall, the sports coupe managed to have a drag coefficient of just 0.31 for the all-wheel drive model, and 0.29 for the front-wheel drive one. For reference, a Bugatti Veyron has a minimum drag coefficient of 0.36.
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Did they measure drag any differently in the mid 1980's? That number seems artificially low or optimistic to say the least.
Video in link calls all Subaru's weird and out in left field. Maybe why I like them?
Nothing worse than being called mainstream in my opinion.
