delta 10% Cd = delta 5% HWY mpg
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I ran across an online paper by Douglass et al., from the University of Delaware, USA, in which they were still using the 10=5 rule-of-thumb as of 2006. Hucho has something close to it in 1986. It's a bit more liberal for Diesel-powered vehicles. William H. Bettes, used it in his researches in the Graduate Aerodynamic Laboratory California Institute of Technology ( GALCIT ) wind tunnel, reporting in 1982. General Motors' Aerodynamics Laboratory was using it in the early 1990s. 'Highway' is not to be construed with 'EPA HWY' protocols. |
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As soon as you see a rule of thumb like this in car modification - any type of car modification - you can be almost certain it's wrong. Rules of thumb don't work well in car modification - especially numerically precise rules of thumb. |
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