Alfa-Romeo Drag Coefficients

[liberty]

Does anyone out there have figures for the Drag Coefficients(Cd) of
Alfa-Romeo's current model range?

Cheers!

[Zak McGregor]

liberty wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there have figures for the Drag Coefficients(Cd) of
> Alfa-Romeo's current model range?

No, and as far as I know they haven't been released by Fiat's PR people
either. They seem to be fairly coy about them :(

Please let on if you find out though.

Thanks

Ciao
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[liberty]

Given that the top speed of the 2.0 156 is quoted @ 134mph, but a 320i with
7 bhp less has a top of 136mph (with a Cd of 0.29) and what looks like a
larger frontal area, I'd say they have a good reason to be coy.

Any speculations on what the 156's Cd is?

Cheers.

[Nicolai Kragh-Hansen]

Well, I don't know if these are right, they are from "Bil Revyen '99"
(danish anual-car-bible ;)).

145 - 0,32
146 - 0,31
156 - 0,29
156 (2,5V6) - 0,30 (?)
Spider - 0,38
GTV (24v ?) - 0,31

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[David Cannard]

Tyre size has a big effect on drag, the reason for the V6 being higher.
The slipperiest models are generally the basic low end spec with skinny
tyres.

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[Catman]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:41:18 -0000, "David Cannard" <da...@cannard.org>
wrote:

>Tyre size has a big effect on drag, the reason for the V6 being higher.
>The slipperiest models are generally the basic low end spec with skinny
>tyres.
>
>"Nicolai Kragh-Hansen" <n...@net.dialog.dk> wrote in message

May have an overall effect on the drag of the car, but as I understand
it, the Cd (co-efficient of drag) is only due to the wind resistance.
Granted larger tyres will present a larger cross sectional area, but I
would have thought the effect would be minimal

Catman
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright
Alfa Romeo 116 Giulietta 2.0l

[Biff]

Quack Quack

David Cannard <da...@cannard.org> wrote in message
news:87q2gs$sa7$1...@quince.news.easynet.net...

> Tyre size has a big effect on drag, the reason for the V6 being higher.
> The slipperiest models are generally the basic low end spec with skinny
> tyres.
>
> "Nicolai Kragh-Hansen" <n...@net.dialog.dk> wrote in message