S2000 Drag Coefficient
Originally posted by JoeD
damn...why so high for sports car standards??
shit, even the Insight has a cd of .29
damn...why so high for sports car standards??
shit, even the Insight has a cd of .29
AFAIK, the Insight has the lowest Cd of any production vehicle (EV1 was considerably lower) at about 0.25-0.26. Teeny tires, reduced rear track, etc. Low Cd*A was one of the design goals, at the expense of traditional measures of performance.
Rag tops always have a worse Cd than a similarly shaped hard top, and the S2000 suffers more due to the angle of the windshield being so upright. It's not a mistake, the S2000's Cd is quite high. It makes you think of what the top speed of the S2k would be like if it had a Cd of .29 or so. Of course, it wouldn't look like the same car, so I'm happy how it is.
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