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Old 04-04-2009, 01:51 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post

GM engineers are so much better than this. They could have optimised details to end up with a less embarrassing Cd - without affecting the overall styling - if they'd wanted to. Maybe the bean counters held them back.
How do you figure? They wanted the square nose and notchback body. How would they reduce the drag of that?

My Miata has a shark nose and smooth lines, but the convertible/notchback causes the cD to be 0.38
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