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> Volkswagen just build the world's most aerodynamic road car ever.

A drag coefficient of 0.158 is not quite setting a record. Aptera's road-legal car has a coefficient of only 0.13, while Hyundai achieved a drag coefficient of 0.144 with the Aero Challenge concept car [1] (but it's not clear whether that vehicle is road-legal, or even what it looks like).

[1] https://www.azernews.az/region/245135.html

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Aptera is even more vaporware-y than this though.

Aptera is getting pretty close to shipping first customer cars this year, or at least seems to be, while this is a one-off research prototype - I think your comment is not quite fair.

Yes, it's a prototype. But it's from a company that has built countless production cars, and which also produced a road-legal limited production run of a pretty similar car (just with ICE instead of electric): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car

I'm pretty sure they could bring this to market almost immediately, if there was a sizeable market for this kind of vehicle.

Aptera on the other hand has been around for a long time now, changing their product strategy every now and then, making announcements... I wish them all the best, I really do, but until they actually ship something, I will also stay skeptical.

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