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Old 04-19-2009, 07:00 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by winkosmosis View Post
According to Motor Trend, Insight's cD is 0.05 higher than the Civic Hybrid's.
From your quote :

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However, we're completely baffled by the car's drag coefficient, which somehow or another is slightly inferior to the Civic's.
I understand that insight II's cD < HCH II's cD

From what I read, insight II's cD is around 0.26 and HCH II's cD [1] is around 0.27. This would means than the difference is only around 0.005 and so isn't as "slightly inferior" as they said.

To find 0.05, you can say that 0.26 is around -5% compared to 0.27.

[1] Automobile drag coefficient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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