Cool car from the 1920′s: The first auto designed with aerodynamics in mind

The Persu…

From Wikipedia…

Aurel Persu (1890–1977) was a Romanian engineer, and the first to apply aerodynamics principles to automobiles. He came to the conclusion that the perfectly aerodynamic automobile has the shape of a falling water-drop.

Persu implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile that could reach very high speeds for that time, and it could take curves at up to 60 km/h. It was the first car to have the wheels inside its aerodynamic line, which we take for granted today.

(via Retronaut, Menduza)

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Category: History, Tech

4 Responses

  1. Jonathan says:

    Looks like Ace & Gary’s car

  2. Adrian says:

    Looks more like a phallus to me. But maybe that’s just the inner Freud speaking.

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