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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Because aerodynamics is a secondary concern for car manufacturers. The car being able to hold a person is more important, else why have a car
Most cars are in fact shaped like you’re saying, but they have to have a jut out to hold an engine. They compromise for the sake of cheap assembly and easy maintenance. The rest of the car will be as streamlined as reasonably achievable
Why is a sphere more draggy than a half sphere?
Most cars are in fact shaped like you’re saying, but they have to have a jut out to hold an engine. They compromise for the sake of cheap assembly and easy maintenance. The rest of the car will be as streamlined as reasonably achievable
Why is a sphere more draggy than a half sphere?
mostly cause people don’t like the way they look.
but GM made a car called the [EV1](https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/gm-ev1-true-inside-story/) that looked like a teardrop in the 90s and i think it has the lowest drag of any production car in history.
nowadays car manufacturers are using tons of aero data to make cars super slippery AND still look relatively normal…without the ugly long tail.
oh yeah there’s another cool teardrop shaped car called the mclaren [speedtail](https://www.caranddriver.com/mclaren/speedtail) that’s designed to have low drag so it can go super fast.
you’ll also see some weirdos put big tails on their [regular](https://www.aerocivic.com/) cars to make them more efficient. they work, but i mean, do you really wanna drive around in something like that?
Most cars are in fact shaped like you’re saying, but they have to have a jut out to hold an engine. They compromise for the sake of cheap assembly and easy maintenance. The rest of the car will be as streamlined as reasonably achievable
Why is a sphere more draggy than a half sphere?
Because a car, first and foremost, is designed to transport people and cargo. The most efficient shape for that is a box.
A car that is aerodynamically efficient but incapable of carrying people and cargo is a bad car.
Some supercars have that shape, but supercars are toy cars, not good cars.
In addition to other answers here, cars donβt experience too much air resistance until 75-80, before then friction between the tires and street, along with inertia, dominate the energy required to move.
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