What is your car(s) terminal velocity?

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes) 03/08/2018 at 17:06 • Filed to: None

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You car got tossed from a plane at 40k ft, what would its terminal, there is this handy !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for the lazy. The surface area I used was that it was falling parallel to the ground. The calculator showed me I be doing 80.76 m/s or 290kph.

Ash78, voting early and often > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 17:25

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The Juke would never hit the ground because the earth would reject it.

But the ground would open up to the waiting arms of Satan himself.

Carry on with your calculations.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 17:47

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Hmmm..Terminal Velocity. That almost sounds like a cheesy 90s action movie.

and 100 more > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 17:51

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2012 Joop Cherokee Laredo, mall-wheel-drive, 1.8L I-3 (x2), 4470 curb weight:

157.732 m/s

(517.493 ft/s in Freedom units, or 352.836 mph).

How did you calculate the surface area? Length x width, or width x height? I used frontal area, as though it were in a nose-dive.

Nibbles > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 03/08/2018 at 17:52

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Or a great 90s video game

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_(video_game)

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > and 100 more 03/08/2018 at 17:54

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L x W.

and 100 more > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 17:56

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But it’d be more fun in a nose-dive.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 17:57

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A rough calculation of my car’s footprint (l*w) says my terminal velocity is 207.6 mph. The real number would be a bit higher because obviously my car is not a rectangle and would present a smaller cross section.

If it goes nose down the cross section is cut by two thirds and my terminal velocity jumps up to 413.3 mph.

TheRealBicycleBuck > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 18:37

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2014 WRX - 379 mph (nose down). That is, if the numbers are right.

RacinBob > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 20:51

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Stock 2007 Civic Si. This is as fast as it would go across a 3 mile flat valley while nervously looking for deer to sprint out of the cornfield.....

wafflesnfalafel > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/08/2018 at 21:53

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I wonder if there are any cars that could outrun their terminal velocity?

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > wafflesnfalafel 03/08/2018 at 21:56

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maybe the Koenigsegg Agrea RS.