{"id":784,"date":"2011-03-02T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=784"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:57:56","slug":"aerodynamically-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/aerodynamically-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerodynamically speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you are talking about a car\u2019s aerodynamics, you are talking about the car\u2019s design.\u00a0 You are also talking about how easily the car\u2019s bulk and total surface area can slip through the air particles.\u00a0 Air friction causes drag on a car\u2019s exterior while it moves through the air.\u00a0 The less aerodynamic a car\u2019s design is, the more drag the air particles will have on the car\u2019s exterior surface.\u00a0 A car\u2019s drag coefficient expresses this friction.\u00a0 Obviously, a car with a lower value of drag coefficient, the slipperier it is through air. The drag coefficient is always associated with a particular surface area. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Well then: I wonder what the most aerodynamic car is in the world.\u00a0 Aerodynamics is hugely important to keeping your fuel bill down.\u00a0 And because aerodynamics has so much to do with fuel consumption, this is such an important area for any automobile design team member.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think about the cars that you look at every day.\u00a0 Think about the car that you drive.\u00a0 How do you think they would compare to the likes of the 2009 Mercedes Benz E Class Coupe which has a drag coefficient (Cd) of 0.24.\u00a0 This E Class Coupe is exceptionally slippery through the air.\u00a0 The Honda Insight combines its Cd of 0.25 with a hybrid motor.\u00a0 The result being that the Insight is one of the world\u2019s most fuel efficient cars.\u00a0 And I\u2019m sure that you\u2019ve heard of the Toyota Prius.\u00a0 The Prius has a Cd of 0.26, and is also a hybrid vehicle.\u00a0 Obviously, the Merc\u2019s bigger performance engine lets the fuel consumption get away a bit.\u00a0 The lower mass – as well as the hybrid engines – favour the two hybrids -making them exceptionally fuel economic.\u00a0 Both the hybrid cars manage well under 4 litres\/100 km fuel consumption.<\/p>\n

Now\u2026 I\u2019ve found what I was looking for.\u00a0 The most aerodynamic car ever produced in the world was the General Motors EV1, with a Cd of 0.195. \u00a0Below is a picture of what the car looks like.\u00a0 Not totally practical, but efficient none the less.<\/p>\n

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Looking at some of the sweet exterior designs that a number of production cars are coming out with these days – Audi\u2019s TT, Alfa Romeo\u2019s Brera, the Mazda 6 range and Peugeot\u2019s range of cars \u2013 I wonder how their drag coefficient rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enzo Ferrari once said that \u201caerodynamics is for people who can’t build engines\u201d. \u00a0However, aerodynamics is paramount today.\u00a0 Car manufacturers have a lot on their plates at the moment:\u00a0 A world recession, India\u2019s and China\u2019s ever increasing presence in the modern automobile world, fuel price rises and consumers\u2019 fickle tastes. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t make an automobile manufacturer\u2019s life easy.\u00a0 Handling all of these issues at once must be a difficult task. \u00a0But, we can do our bit.\u00a0 How about considering a car\u2019s fuel economy and drag coefficient next time you come to purchasing a new car. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/turbozaim-zaimy-online-bez-otkazov.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you are talking about a car\u2019s aerodynamics, you are talking about the car\u2019s design.\u00a0 You are also talking about how easily the car\u2019s bulk and total surface area can slip through the air particles.\u00a0 Air friction causes drag on a car\u2019s exterior while it moves through the air.\u00a0 The less aerodynamic a car\u2019s design […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12497,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/12497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}