Aeromaxxing was the road not taken.
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>>28956947>not takenIsn't that why everything is egg shaped now THOUGH? For peak aero
>>28956947Nice Porsche with supra headlights
>>28956952This is 4 decades later and also an electric vehicle, which because of battery constraints need to embrace low drag.I guess the point I was trying to make is we could have been getting 50+ mpg in the 1980s at very mainstream vehicle prices.
Absolutely delusional, literally everything has been minmaxed for aero that's why we never get badass square rides no mo'
>>28956967>80'swrong product for the time, everyone was starting to featuremax with power windows, a/c, electronic seats, performance packages, especially as gas prices dropped. you forget these are greedy bastards who want to make a buck off of normies, and dont actually give 2 fucks about what you want or whats ideal
>>28956947we've just learned a lot about aerodynamics since 1984
>>28956952This was my first thought. The latest CLA also just breezes in the wind. OP got what he asked for in these cars. EV manufacturers are crazy about decreasing wind resistance. >>28956967Back then focus was on power and premium, not MPG.
>>28956967>need to embrace low dragAnd yet they produce fuckhuge cars, where any gain in c_d gets obliterated by the increase in cross sectional area.
>>28957020>Back then focus was on power and premium, not MPG.I would push back on that. There is a direct line from the oil embargo to Nixon's CAFE standards to the more radical aerodynamic concepts that emerged in the 1980s. It was clearly with an eye to maintain the American lifestyle that had been developed with fewer inputs.Then of course we got the Reagan deal with the Saudis and other oil producers to get the price down and everyone had goldfish brains.
>>28956947>Aeromaxxing was the road not taken.Only works in societies where the peak social status in that civilization are hardcore nerds who only care about efficiency, so if Volvo or SAAB at the time figured it out, you'd have a bunch of autistic Scandinavians driving long-tailed aero wagons faster than an American NASCAR racer.
>>28957032>And yetYou do realize that you're berating two competing engineering teams, don't you?They were siloed between the GM Technical Center division in Warren Michigan and the plain Line engineers.
>>28957175>Only works in societies where the peak social status in that civilization are hardcore nerds who only care about efficiencyFALSE.Most of the public remains perpetually ignorant as to technology and what constitutes "cutting edge".The engineers that created the best products ever mustered by GM didn't have the means to communicate their importance to the average American.
>noo not like that!
>>28956967My '85 CRX would consistently hit 54mpg.We had it.They took it away from us.
>>28957416>My '85 CRX would consistently hit 54mpg.And that was with a cD comfortably over .3. Get it down to .2 and you're probably looking at another 12mpg on the highway.
>>28956947Lowest cD (coefficient of drag) of any aerodynamic concept car.
>>28956947Reject bar of soap. Embrace teardrop.>>28957409This is the worst betrayal--a beautiful teardrop with a hideous rectangular slab added to the front.
>>28957032This. BEVs are extra tall since there's a giant protected and shielded battery pack below the cabin.
>>28958179those seats
>>28958180In fairness, they had to put the engine somewhere.
>>28956947>What?
>>28956947Why do you think EVs look shit?It's all Aero Maxing.
>>28958191You'd be astonished how much dead space is under a regular gas car's carpet
>>28958348that's not maxing. this is maxing.
>>28956967Aeromaxxing only removes one component of energy use and it only affects it when above 45mph, and statistically at 45mph the differenxe between 0.1 and 0.3cD is like 2% mpg.The most aero efficient blimp of a car would still get 15mpg city with an LS1. Sure sure maybe it would get 32mpg highway instead of 25 but city use (~18mph average moving speed) is something like 70% of all car miles.
Posers.
>>28958548The ironic part is that the average speed implies that all the tards overtaking and speeding are doing it for nothing, because a red light or a bit of traffic negate all the time gained. Since accelerations are the most energy demanding maneuvers, in essence they're tanking their fuel efficiency for no practical gain. This knowledge makes my commute slightly funnier, since I keep a constant speed and all the impatient fucks behind me seethe as they overtake and speed away, just for me to quietly reach them at the next intersection.
>>28956953What is this troonish speech pattern?
>>28958975>cant recognize tumors from that site immediatelynewfag
>>28958179they had one more after that they claimed checked in at .137
>>28957409>bvilt4autobahn
