The original air-cooled VW Microbus has a coefficient of drag lower than a 2025 Formula One car.
What’s their point? That we should all ride cows rather than drive Wranglers?
It’s a pity the dinosaurs had to die so this could appear in the Internet.
Some kind of AI sez:
“The statement is false. The original air-cooled Volkswagen Type 2 (Microbus) has a drag coefficient ($C_d$) of approximately 0.44, while Formula One cars have drag coefficients ranging from 0.7 to 1.1 depending on the aerodynamic setup.
Although F1 cars generate significant downforce, their high drag coefficients mean they are far less aerodynamically efficient in terms of pure air resistance than the Microbus. The Microbus’s $C_d$ of 0.44 is actually lower than that of the original Beetle ($0.48$) and comparable to many modern SUVs, but it remains significantly lower than the values associated with open-wheel race cars. “
0.4 hasn’t been all that great for a hundirt years.