Manufacturers were less concerned with making cars more aerodynamic than with streamlining time, picking up the pace of obsolescence.
The new Cherokee ditches Jeep's traditional boxy look for a more aerodynamic style.
They are more aerodynamic and have low-rolling-resistance tires to boost fuel efficiency.
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The bindings supposedly made the Swiss's position through the air more aerodynamic, but the International Ski Federation (FIS) said they were legal.
The look is functional as well as aesthetic, since the steeply raked top and resulting smaller frontal area make the car much more aerodynamic than its predecessors.
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Resting too much weight on the upper body and forcing riders into a hunched position may be more aerodynamic, but it also puts undue strain on the human body.
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When he was 12 and took science classes at Northwestern University, he saw a school bus, and had an idea: what if the clunky, right-angled school bus was more aerodynamic?
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Montgomery lobbied Scott designers for a new line of bikes targeted at triathletes. (These bikes are more aerodynamic--with tear-shaped tubes instead of round ones--because, unlike cycling racers, triathletes are prohibited from drafting, or riding single file to beat wind resistance.) The market is tiny, but triathletes are visible and voluble.
The car appears to include a number of innovative features - including a top to the chassis in front of the cockpit which is lower than on other cars, and a more extreme aerodynamic treatment in front of the sidepods alongside the driver.
The redesigned 300, introduced last year, dials back the goth froth in favor of a more practical, mature and aerodynamic design (the windshield is much more raked than before), and yet the car retains its from-a-mile-away profile: the big and bluff hood, the blingtastic grille, the pillbox roof, the chopped deck.
"If you speak to (aerodynamic and hydrodynamics) experts they say there is a lot more that can be done because our computational power will be at a level where we can understand the nuances of small changes, " he said.
It is made more complicated this year by the presence on many cars of the F-duct aerodynamic device, pioneered by McLaren but since adopted by several other teams.
Fernando Alonso reports the Ferrari feels more competitive without the F-duct and the team, like Red Bull, have canned the aerodynamic device.
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