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This Is Claimed To Be The Most Aerodynamic Car Ever. But It’s Not...Next time do better research, Chery
Motor 1 ^ | Nov 07, 2023 at 8:32am ET | By: Angel Sergeev

Posted on 11/08/2023 6:02:09 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/08/2023 6:02:09 AM PST by Red Badger
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Fiat Turbina may have a lower drag coefficient, but the Chery (Cherovlet, China?) doesn’t look like it wants to tongue kiss you.


2 posted on 11/08/2023 6:08:51 AM PST by dangus
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All of these, including the Chery, were concept cars. I remember the Ford Probe that actually made it to market had a very good rating. It never took off, and you don’t see them any more.


3 posted on 11/08/2023 6:23:14 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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Somebody got their Chery popped...


4 posted on 11/08/2023 6:25:55 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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It was intended to be the next generation Mustang, but Mustang clubs and owners all over the world raised hell with Ford, so they dropped the idea and called it the Probe....


5 posted on 11/08/2023 6:29:29 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I believe the AMC Pacer was the most aerodynamic car ever made...


6 posted on 11/08/2023 6:44:52 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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Pacer’s drag coefficient of 0.43 was relatively low for that time..............But hardly spectacular........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Pacer


7 posted on 11/08/2023 6:48:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I had a 1986 Ford Probe. Nice little car, great commuter.
It was no Mustang, though.


8 posted on 11/08/2023 7:01:44 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Evil is dropping it's cloak of disguise. Prepare for battle.)
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It would have been had Mustang Nation not balked at the name.................


9 posted on 11/08/2023 7:07:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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”the Fiat Turbina from 1954 had 0.14”

Wikipedia: Fiat Turbina

Looks like something from the Speed Racer cartoon.

10 posted on 11/08/2023 7:09:04 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Common Sense 101

LOL! The aquarium on wheels.


11 posted on 11/08/2023 7:09:50 AM PST by GMThrust
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I test drove one of those once, lol. It reminded me of being in the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder.


12 posted on 11/08/2023 7:39:42 AM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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With that front end it appears to have more coefficient drag than 1953 Studebaker commander.


13 posted on 11/08/2023 9:08:18 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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14 posted on 11/08/2023 9:14:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Beautiful car had one with a Cadillac engine it was a fun car to drive great design.

Many didn’t like some Studebaker designs but most were wind tunnel tested in fact Baker was one of the first to have a rounded front end on their pick ups.
Pop has a 1949 I put a small block with a automatic chevy in it he and rewired it he loved it.

Thanks for photo


15 posted on 11/08/2023 9:28:58 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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I don't know why Studebaker failed, but I remember it. They had beautiful cars. My parents had a 50 or 51 Studebaker. It was darker green that this, more like a Hunter Green...........
16 posted on 11/08/2023 9:33:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Indeed pop had one the rear window had a great view for a kid to check out the stars in a night ride.


17 posted on 11/08/2023 9:54:29 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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Indeed pop had one the rear window had a great view for a kid to check out the stars in a night ride.


18 posted on 11/08/2023 9:54:39 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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I remember I could stand up in the back, of course I was only like 8 years old....................


19 posted on 11/08/2023 9:55:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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My grandparents had a late 1950’s Studebaker. My grandmother, who never learned how to drive, never sat in the front seat. She always sat in the back seat with her Rosary beads.......LOL!


20 posted on 11/08/2023 10:06:04 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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