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Hyundai's full-scale wind tunnel


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If that's not all, the Namyang facility also boasts of Hyundai's very own full-scale wind tunnel, just the third aero-acoustic wind tunnel in the world, according to Hyundai and capable of producing wind speeds upto 200kmph. Other car makers also have wind tunnels but these only estimate air flow and wind resistance but the Hyundai facility can also determine wind noise and how to take measures to iron it out. Earlier Hyundai made do with a small scale wind tunnel in Seoul with full-size prototypes having to be shipped to the MIRA wind tunnel (on Hyundai built car carriers via the Hyundai Merchant Marine arm) in the UK for final tweaking.

 

http://www.indiacar.com/index2.asp?pagenam...nata/index1.htm

 

It's unfair that Komoco bring in only the lowest of trims of Hyundai into Singapore and tarnish the actually rather good brand name. They should at least bring in a few trims. India got such nice Sonata leh!

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I don't understand this, Hyundai has a full-scale wind tunnel yet it's Coupe still has a high drag coefficient of 0.34, whereas the 1/1.3l Daihutsu Boon/Toyota Passo has a Cd of 0.31!!

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wah, not easy to find lehz. But don't you know what are search engines for and what THEY ARE [:p]. Just go Google.com and type 'Hyundai Tiburon(cos more coupes under tiburon then tuscani) Coefficient drag'. Or type aerodynamics or anything similar. I tried to find Matrix's one but can't find lol because Hyundai didn't disclose the specs.

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