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Old 10-21-2008, 12:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
.299 Cd! So much for "fineness ratios".
haha marketing... When you think about it, car makers touting Cd without mentioning total frontal area is almost a meaningless index for the consumer's purposes. What consumers really need is a new index that combines the two numbers that more directly relates to total drag at say, 65mph (or pick a speed). I don't ever recall seeing total frontal area stats for a given model unless I dig, deep.

Still, a good direction to be headed if you sell cars for a living. Large firm selling tested crashworthy car that get great FE... what a concept! But will the general population buy or rent them?
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