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06-11-2009, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

and the new Prius is 0.25 -- sweeet!

But unfortunately with the new Prius they also increased the frontal area slightly which offset the drag decrease of the lower Cd, so there was little net change in total drag between the gen II and gen III Prius. Total drag is a result of Cd AND frontal area.

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