If the shape with the least air-resistance is a raindrop 💧, why are most cars shaped like a backwards raindrop? 🚗

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I am basing my question off this [image](https://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/dragcoefficients8851096396303799158.png)

Edit: Okay, okay, I should have said “teardrop” instead of “raindrop.” Talking about the *actual* shape of raindrops doesn’t really help given the visuals I provided.

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Answer 1

Because the idea is not to increase the aerodynamics as much as humanly possible.

You don’t want the car to fly.

There are actually many things in place in a car to make it *not* fly, such as the grippyness of the tires, the weight, etc.

If you look at race cars, which are designed to maximize speed, they also aren’t shaped like a teardrop. They’re as flat and as spread out on the ground as possible so that the car doesn’t take off.