1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen sedan - photo

[Altair]

1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen sedan.

Fullsize image: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...r_fullsize.jpg



Previously:

1911 Reeves Octo-Auto and Sexto-Auto - photos
1914 jury transport - photo
1938 Phantom Corsair sedan - photo
1923 Hispano-Suiza H6A six-wheeled luxury car - photo
Rolls Royce Phantom l Jonckheere Aerodynamic Coupe - photos

[mklotz]

Gosh, there really is something uglier than the Pontiac Aztek.

[DIYSwede]

-Yup, but you can't get a CdA @ 0,28 just for free - as it was the world's first aero-dynamically designed auto.
Its 2.6 L Siemens & Halske (sic!) engine of 36 hp pulled the 3000 lb car up to 70 mph a hundred years ago...

No early April joke here, check for yourselves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automo...ag_coefficient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpler_Tropfenwagen
https://www.carfolio.com/rumpler-tropfenwagen-98219

Cheers
Johan (with a measured CdA of 0.34* on my time trial bicycle, and NEVER ever doing 70 mph)

*Bigger than my then car had: An Audi (Typ 44) 100 Avant with a CdA which achieved a record breaking 0.30 in 1982...

[Toolmaker51]

Gosh, there really is something uglier than the Pontiac Aztek.

Yeah, but it took decades! In between could offer Edsel, Plymouth Valiant, late 50's Belvedere, 1966 Chevelle.
One of those is a fake entry, any guesses?

[Toolmaker51]

-Yup, but you can't get a CdA @ 0,28 just for free - as it was the world's first aero-dynamically designed auto.
Its 2.6 L Siemens & Halske (sic!) engine of 36 hp pulled the 3000 lb car up to 70 mph a hundred years ago...

No early April joke here, check for yourselves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automo...ag_coefficient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpler_Tropfenwagen
https://www.carfolio.com/rumpler-tropfenwagen-98219

Cheers
Johan

3000 pounds at 70 mph? I don't see adequate brakes, can't judge suspension; but the Autobahn wasn't known for bad paving.

CdA was unfamiliar abbreviation for drag coefficient, we use B.C. (and BC interchangeably) in ballistics; so I rang up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient.