Once again, I was looking for something else.
www.totalsimulation.co.uk: The first downforce car?
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Little is known about the car designed in the 1920’s by Rene Prevost, which he briefly described with a diagram and photo in his letter published in a1928 edition of The Automobile Engineer. He did however, mention the possible benefits of increased stability and power by sucking the car to the track. Based on this info, 3D cad was generated by Stuart Brown of 3D Engineers (www.3d-engineers.co.uk) and a CFD model created by TotalSim.
It did generate downforce, although the stagnation under the nose produced a lot of front lift which would have made the handling pretty interesting…
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Not sure where to put this so I'll just add it here:
The nautical themed Rolls Royce Hyperion Concept
My VW Beetle barrelback has a running light stanchion.