Green Options » Vehicle Design Summit http://greenoptions.com/tag/vehicle-design-summit Posts tagged 'Vehicle Design Summit' Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:47:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Do Cars Really Need to Look Like UFOs to Save Gas? http://gas2.org/2008/09/15/do-cars-really-need-to-look-like-ufos-to-save-gas/ http://gas2.org/2008/09/15/do-cars-really-need-to-look-like-ufos-to-save-gas/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:47:12 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2008/09/15/do-cars-really-need-to-look-like-ufos-to-save-gas/

With the world focused on fuel economy, advanced car design seems to be converging around one point in space. And I do mean, literally, a point in space — a point sometimes seen flying over Roswell, or crashing in the Bermuda triangle.

Regardless of what you think about this type of design, it begs the question: do cars need to look like alien spacecraft to get decent fuel economy?

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