Necromancer
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Cars are about nice looking design, heavy duty trucks and buses are about efficiency, especially fuel efficiency.
Aerodynamics is not about thin and pointy, its more about round corners. The Mythbasters motorcycle vs car episode illustrates it very well. Unfortunately i can't find the full episode, but as you can see in this short clip from the episode the much bigger but more round design is more aerodynamic. The round corners of trucks cause less drag and are more aerodynamic efficient then all the curves on private cars.
@russ331 - internet has a lot of false info about the subject, and the fact a lot of people call small trucks/pick up trucks as just "trucks" doesn't help with the confusion.
The table you linked just says "motorcycle" and "truck" and nothing specific. There are hundreds if not thousands of different designs.
Aerodynamics is not about thin and pointy, its more about round corners. The Mythbasters motorcycle vs car episode illustrates it very well. Unfortunately i can't find the full episode, but as you can see in this short clip from the episode the much bigger but more round design is more aerodynamic. The round corners of trucks cause less drag and are more aerodynamic efficient then all the curves on private cars.
@russ331 - internet has a lot of false info about the subject, and the fact a lot of people call small trucks/pick up trucks as just "trucks" doesn't help with the confusion.
The table you linked just says "motorcycle" and "truck" and nothing specific. There are hundreds if not thousands of different designs.
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