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Originally Posted by dichotomous
chevy is really good at making aero cars..... stingray corvette, cleaned up bodywise I doubt you could do much better
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and there are a few 7th gen civic Si's running around with RSX-s transmissions which are 6speed and have a taller final drive, they get signficiantly better gas milage. one guy thew the type s final on his Si gears with a TSX 5th added as 6th (confused yet?) for much taller gears (he also has a bored and stroked with a LOT more power) and gets around 38mpg out of it. this vs my stock motor with almost 100less hp and stock gears at 10mpg less.... |
Curvaceous lines is not an indication of an aerodynamic car
For example, 1969 Opel GT, lots of curvyness that screams to the masses "air just gets out of my way."
A = 1.51 m^2
cD = .41 --- not too bad for the time period
And the 1974, VW Scirocco... Screams "I'm a boxy car, listen to the turbulence I make!"
A = 1.73 m^2
cD = .41
There's likely many other examples with cars that are "boxy" versus "curvy" with identical form drag numbers
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For the OP:
I would put neither of those cars on the list
