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1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen sedan - photo
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Gosh, there really is something uglier than the Pontiac Aztek.
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-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...
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Originally Posted by
mklotz
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?
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Originally Posted by
DIYSwede
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.