| Today’s modern minivan and SUV are | | | | need a more aerodynamically and efficiently |
| quite stylish, however aerodynamically speaking | | | | designed SUV, but society needs to put their |
| quite lacking in laminar airflow efficiency. Convert | | | | money where their mouth is? We see that |
| this statement in gas mileage and you can readily | | | | environmentalists are upset with large SUVs, |
| see the need for massive aerodynamic | | | | some extremist rogue criminal elements of the |
| improvement. The Modern Soccer mom needs a | | | | environmentalist movement have taken to arson |
| complete retrofit in her transportation choices. | | | | of car dealerships selling the largest of SUV, the |
| Drastic shape changes should be made but | | | | Hummer. It might be interesting to see these |
| unfortunately those companies, which make too | | | | groups turn their efforts to the public to entice |
| advanced or radical changes early on are not able | | | | them through proper reasoning and education to |
| to meet the demands of the mass-market | | | | buy the most efficient SUVs and minivans. |
| consumer. For instance it doesn’t look like a | | | | The best design for an efficient minivan would be |
| minivan or SUV, it is ugly, not hip or cool. | | | | one with a full undercarriage shell, rear wheel |
| Some early adopters may opt to buy and drive a | | | | covers or fairings, a bulbous nose and rounded |
| radically new design in a minivan or SUV however | | | | tapered rear. The bulbous nose would need to be |
| unless that design can gain “Cool, The | | | | rounded in the front and then come back to a |
| Bomb, Trick, Awesome” status then wide | | | | contoured indentation which would be similar to |
| spread acceptance will not continue the trend. Car | | | | the indentation on a shoe arch after the first 1/3 |
| manufacturers test new ideas at auto shows and | | | | of the vehicle, however the indentation would |
| with artist’s conceptions in trade journals | | | | need to be all the way around; top, bottom and |
| and do lots of surveys before introducing new | | | | both sides. The second two-thirds of the vehicle |
| models. They know in advance what will sell and | | | | would need to contour back out to the widest |
| what will not, sometimes they will throw caution | | | | point of the bulbous nose and continue back to |
| to the wind with a radical design, but there are | | | | the end of the vehicle. As the vehicle come to an |
| plenty of failures from the EDSEL to modern day | | | | end it would be rounded out and slightly tapered |
| models such as the Pontiac Aztec, which flopped | | | | to complete the shape. |
| [ | | | | Scientists have studied these concepts in fluid |
| Re-tooling for a new model costs millions and the | | | | dynamics for boat hull design, light aircraft design, |
| R and D involved takes years to recoup. We | | | | over the road trucks and racecars. |