According to Motor Trend, Insight's cD is 0.05 higher than the Civic Hybrid's.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...xperience.html
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A lot of us raised our eyebrows when the Insight's mileage numbers were officially released as they're actually lower than the older-tech Civic Hybrid (Civic-40/45, Insight-40/43). The culprit? Well, sacrificing the three-stage i-VTEC mechanism on the altar of the Insight's squeaky-tight IMA budget probably hasn't helped. However, we're completely baffled by the car's drag coefficient, which somehow or another is slightly inferior to the Civic's.
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^ They removed the 0.05 number from the online version of the article
How can that be? The Civic Hybrid is a sedan with a fairly steep rear window, and the Insight is an aero-optimized kammback.
Could it be those wheels alone??
