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Originally Posted by aerohead
We can circle back to him later.
I just looked at ' ars TECHNICA's' website on the new Prius:
Toyota Motor Company told them that the LE, with 17" wheels/tires is the only Prius with Cd 0.27.
The Limited and XLE are 'more like Cd 0.29'. That's from the horse's mouth.
It's something about both the tire's frontal area, and the ventilation drag of the more 'open' spoke pattern of the alloy wheels, just like Tesla, just like Lucid Air, just like KIA, Just like Genesis, just like Hyundai.......................
It's not about 'killer' mass.
SAE INTERNATIONAL wasn't even informed, with respect to their report on the 2023 Prius.
I don't have enough time to get into 'Engineering Explained', so that will have to be for Monday.
As 'consumers', our biggest beef ought to do with the Munroney stickers on new cars. In a perfect world, they'd provide official drag coefficients and projected frontal areas for the specific model they're affixed to, allowing the potential customer to 'do the math.'
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Do you have any break downs on why the new Prius has so much higher drag coefficients than the previous models? Many casual people think it “ looks” the most aerodynamic of any prius but clearly it’s not
I’m just curious to what you’d say pops out to you visually