Well, many people here says that Subaru's aerodynamics are close to a brick. Understanding that aerodynamics isn't just the air drag multiplier, it's very complicated, but how much is it anyway? It is the only factor that prescribes the top speed, excluding how much torque does the car put on the wheels. Of course the gear box's one gear should be counted optimal, but in theory the AD multiplier is one major factor in top speed. It also heavily affects in mileage at higher speeds.
Might forgot something....

Sorry about the incorrect language.

tony

depending on the model it's .33-.35

you're mistaken about this being the only value needed to compute top speed, you also need to at least know frontal area, which I don't know offhand.

have fun!

The pre-2002 numbers can be found here (Prova/Eifel Sedan w/spoilers, etc.)
http://www.jprova.co.jp/motoracing/fudo2.html

ColinL: I think you're right about the area thigie. I was wrong, you were right. I'm fysics student in university and being wrong in cases like this irritates me :) Well you know the summer ..urph..and sun and flowers and birds and urph...just excuses :)
In fact the air resistance is directly proporional to air velocitys third potency and proportional factor is proportional to the air drag multiplier. F=K*v^3. Well shame shame me...

Watched BBC yesterday and there was a somesort of a car that had the ADM of 0.2 (and turbine motor) and compared to the ~0.35, seems that Subies have a huge multiplier. There is something to develope in our cars, tough one though.

Is there some plugin to install to be able to read the Japanese text?

Thanks ColinL and mhj

tony

To paraphrase Douglas Adams: Our cars are aerodynamic in exactly the same way that bricks aren't...:p

:lol:

If you are using Internet Explorer, go to the View->encoding->more-> japanese auto detect

then copy and paste the japanese text into
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
and select "Japanese to English" to get the translation.

It may have been a R&T article awhile back. I remember reading that the Impreza RS 2.5 had a coefficient of drag (Cd) of about 0.34, but that it would be 0.32 without the non-op hood scoop. The hood scoop area is actually worse than a brick because it is a cavity, then becomes a brick.

You folks have been entertaining me for several months, but this is my first post. Whew, not a virgin anymore!

Thanks:cool:

is that an argument in favor of a front mount IC?
and an RS hood on the new WRX? that'd be a sleeper...