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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,312 Thanks: 24,439 Thanked 7,386 Times in 4,783 Posts	Pressure drag and aerodynamic drag ' [P]ressure drag is the largest component in the aerodynamic drag. Its minimization is the true objective of motor vehicle aerodynamics.' Wolf Heinrich Hucho, Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles, Second Edition, 1987, page 119. __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/

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' [P]ressure drag is the largest component in the aerodynamic drag. Its minimization is the true objective of motor vehicle aerodynamics.'
Wolf Heinrich Hucho, Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles, Second Edition, 1987, page 119.

Yes that was so in 1987, and remains so for normal road cars today.

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