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The Aero was a range of concept car studies created by General Motors as a testbed for future aerodynamic improvements to car bodies. The first model was the 1981 Aero X, a five-door hatchback.
In 1982 the Aero 2000 was shown, a smaller two-door car, it had several unique features, such as front and rear fender skirts, a kammback design, and a smoothed underbelly. Almost all of these features have been incorporated into modern hybrid car designs at some point, with the exception of front fender skirts. The Aero 2000 had a drag coefficient of 0.23, but had no engine so could not be driven.
The Aero 2002 was shown a year later at the 1983 with its much improved Cd of 0.14. Designed by Irv Rybicki, it was to influence the 1984 Chevrolet Citation IV concept.
References
- Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles. Edited by Wolf-Heinrich Hucho. (c) Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1987. Boston (c)1987.
- Five GM Concept models. Car Styling 44, Autumn 1983, pp 6–23.
- "Revisited: The GM Concept Cars". Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.
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