Ford Mustang: Drag Coefficients For Fox Mustangs

That they are bricks with wheels.

Hykel wrote: 

They are also probably the best priced high performance you can buy for the
buck. Bar none.

Ya don't have to convince us, Bob... that's why we're all here. Well, most
of us anyway. ;-)

JS

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Just some geewiz numbers... today's trivia. (Aerodynamics is free
horsepower.) And some people are amazed that a GT with all its "aero
aids" is less aerodynamic than a plainer LX.

As for being "bricks on wheels", yeah, by today's standards the Fox
body's numbers are not very good. (But no worse than the '94-'03
Mustangs.) Slippery cars have CDs under .30. An average for today for
cars, I'd guess, would be in the low .3Xs... .32, .33. Trucks, SUVs,
and vans, obviously would be much higher.

Patrick
'93 Cobra
'83 LTD

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I'm not overly amazed. There's more nose on the front of a GT that really
isn't scluplted that well. More flat areas for the air to want to stop
against. The only thing I think that could help the GT over the LX hatch
would be the spoiler... where some of the air can at least go under the
thing.

A few winters back I found it interesting that, when snow was left on the GT
wing, very little of it was removed by the air in the complete center of the
wing, and also on the outsides. I could see how the air tracked at an angle
off of the top of the car and over the wing in two distinct paths towards
each other.

JS

At least they are faster (more aerodynamic) going forward. Remember
the Porsche 928...It was actually faster (more aerodynamic) going
backwards. Just a little internal humor us Porsche owners used to
snicker about.

IMO, the 928 was one of the best looking cars ever sold. It lead the
way for the design of many "jelly bean" cars all through the 1990's. In
fact, many current Porsche's still have remnants of it's shape. I take
it it wasn't a favorite among Porsche enthusiasts.

Barrett wrote: 

Thinking back, one of my favorite Porsches was the old Speedster.
Sort of looked like an inflated bug on steroids. Very cool car.
Here's a '56:

http://volition.chooseyouritem.com/exotics/files/53500/53791-1.1956.Porsche.Speedster.html

Joe
Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies
Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC


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