Talk:Automotive aerodynamics

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Katz, Joseph (1995). Race Car Aerodynamics: Designing for Speed (PDF). Cambridge, MA: Bentley Publishers. ISBN 0837601428.
Katz, Joseph (2006-01-01). "AERODYNAMICS OF RACE CARS". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 38 (1): 27–63. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.38.050304.092016. ISSN 0066-4189.
Katz, Joseph (2016). Automotive Aerodynamics. Chichester, UK. ISBN 978-1-119-18572-7. OCLC 1153046337.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Earlier observations

Has too little content on aerodynamics, maybe some calculations or charts might help. --Venny85 16:55, 29 March 2008 (UTC) I think so to ait should have more things on cars and the definition of aerodynamics-Chase Goldsmith 12/13/17

Poor reference

I already registered a similar sentiment about the reference http://www.mayfco.com/tbls.htm used widely on Wikipedia for aerodynamic values pertaining to passenger cars. They clearly state that the figures are derived and not in any way official. By using it as a reference Wikipedia is almost bestowing official status on derived numbers, which I don't think is correct. If the reference is to be used, it should be in a context of deriving values from others in an automotive application, and articles which purport to list official figures use sources that use actual figures. Again, not sure how to proceed or even if to proceed.

More about Coefficients of Drag

It seems that the aerodynamics data from the Mayfield page may not be accurate. If you look at the source here, there's a notice saying that some of the data is obviously derived and as a result, I infer that it may not be exact. I'm not sure about what to do. Since some or much of the data at Automobile drag coefficients#CdA seems to share the same source, I guess I can merge it. It seems this is the idea of the editor who put the merge template on the page. I also have a post about this at Talk:Automobile drag coefficients. Also, I apologize if I'm not doing this the right way, but I'm not a very experienced editor. --The Quirky Kitty (talk) 19:51, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Copying

After searching online, I saw several sources that had some text from this article, but I'm not sure if it was copying from or to wikipedia. Some of them seemed to be something other than just copies of Wikipedia articles. To me, it seems like a complicated case of copying because I found several possible sources. The URL I gave is just the most obvious example. Please investigate this more, sorry I can only provide limited information. I also edited this page several times before realizing it was a possible copyright violation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Quirky Kitty (talk • contribs) 22:13, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Google does come up with a lot of verbatim texts, but they all look more like external copying from Wikipedia, especially given their age. The website you provided is copyright 2009 but the WP article has had the relevant phrases at least since October 2008 (see revision). Also this is a direct copy from Wikipedia, forum post referenced "from Wikipedia", etc. I don't see a problem here. De728631 (talk) 13:57, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Historic cars

Could you add the Rumpler Tropfenwagen, the Chrysler Airflow and the Czech Tatra T77 to the list please?--95.91.33.186 (talk) 16:44, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Vague and unencyclopedic tone

This part could be stand an edit...

"Aerodynamics is extremely important to get past that limiting barrier that you go through all the time on the highway. Although spoilers may look cool ..."

"that limiting barrier"? Is it identified in the article? "that you go though"? You do?

"all the time"? Really? All the time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:CA10:18A0:803B:5C21:2B09:A979 (talk) 03:22, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]