Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "" video.

  1. The DS was a weird gutless car that only sold fairly well in France. It was not mid-engined, but due to poor design the engine compartment was excessively long. Perhaps Citroen thought that would fool people into thinking it had a big engine and was fast. It had silly gimmicks such as pivoting headlights linked to the steering, which was dangerous and the authorities in various countries required that the headlight turning be disabled. A car that LOOKS aerodynamic (eg Citroen DS, Jaguar E-Type) isn't necessarily low drag in practice. Lowest drag comes from a teardrop or raindrop shape, ie the largest cross section near the front - the opposite to the DS shape. When I started doing an engineering degree at university, they were wind-tunnel testing cars. The car with the lowest drag turned out to be the Volkswagen. However, I agree those old Nash cars weren't very good. They didn't sell well either.
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  2. What an ugly looking car. There's no front wheel arches - since that would force a narrow front track, it must have noticeably degraded handling. And the film shows it wallowed around a lot even by the then American standards.
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