Information About Aerodynamics

Now this might sound a little geeky, but it’s truly a great piece of scientific invention that everyone must know and admire about, at least just to know what another person is talking about when he means fuel efficiency. Well aerodynamics is everywhere around us, but let us see how it affects the vehicles that we use, it mainly affects a car in two ways reduces the resistance given by air to the movement of the vehicle, second it increases the control of a vehicle by giving it more down force so that your car sticks more to the ground. When you consider you daddy’s Lincoln or the Old Chrysler or even the present day one you won’t be able to see any aerodynamics in them, or in plain English look at their noses they are nothing but flat and extremely boxy, imagine an aero plane with such a nose, it wouldn’t even get off the ground, because for one simple reason ‘air resistance’.

Let’s put it this way the more area you give for air to contact an surface the more it will resist that object to pass through, so the front of anything that moves should be as ‘pointy’ as possible, that why we have airplanes, and rockets that look like a bird with a pointed, though we employed this for many years in the aviation industry no body really thought about its importance in the automobile industry. We only realized its potential in saving fuel after the fuel crisis began, and the result, today we have cars that look much curvier than those super models. With proper aerodynamics one can reduce the fuel consumption up to 48%. Imagine how much fuel would have been saved if we had thought of it a bit earlier, aerodynamics is also very important in the manufacture of sports cars and race cars, without it you will never be able to reach above 150kmph and still be on the road. Also the major impact of aerodynamics is the style it brings on to a car. Aerodynamics has a lot more than these but this little knowledge is enough if you want to save fuel and choose the right car.