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I figure anyone buying a car that costs over $100 K isn't all that interested in practicality.  They are about image, mostly.  This is why I don't think there is much market for the Celestique.  It's unusual, sure, but still a Cadillac, and one could buy a Rolls something, with a lot more cache.  I suppose at the "club" maybe everyone has a roller and you want to be different ...

As usual, the "value" component in a car's price drops way off as the price goes higher.  One can buy a perfectly decent comfortable car under $40 K.  Go to $60 K, I get it, you get a nice mark and more features and probably better performance to some degree.  

Ford should bring back the Excursion.

On a 1-ton pickup chassis.

1 ton is better.

3/4 ton would be adequate.  1 ton would be dominant. 

Aero is complex, no doubt, I know that how the tail is shaped has a lot to do with Cd, and a lot of that is not intuitive.  But a blocky square front end isn't as aero as one that is sloped.

Aerodynamic drag and lift of different car body shapes

How aerodynamics help make a car go faster

Aero is complex, no doubt, I know that how the tail is shaped has a lot to do with Cd, and a lot of that is not intuitive.  But a blocky square front end isn't as aero as one that is sloped.

Aerodynamic drag and lift of different car body shapes

How aerodynamics help make a car go faster

Yeah, as mentioned I don't profess to be an expert on this, or even a confident layman. 

It just seems to me that the most slippery cars on the market do NOT have a front end with the amount of slope that I think you're talking about. Given how aggressively these automakers--particularly EV makers--are trying to reduce Cd, it makes me think that they're already optimizing the shape as much as they can. 

This isn't the 1960s when a lot of this was theoretical and done by engineers with pencil and paper. They can model and iterate different design/shape choices extensively on a computer long before they ever have to prototype something. As with a lot of things, it's possible that there are design tradeoffs of a more aggressively sloped front end that they're forgoing better aero because the tradeoff they'd have to make for a change in shape has other drawbacks. But it's also possible that what we--as a chemist and an electrical engineer out of our depth--would intuitively think is best for Cd... isn't.