In 1934, Chrysler bet big on teardrop-shaped cars

The streamline shape is still more aerodynamic than most cars today. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In 1930, English engineer Sir Dennis Burney told Popular Science that his teardrop-shaped car would cut fuel consumption in half. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. From the start, cars were built wrong. At least, that's what Chrysler's head of automotive research, Carl Breer, thought in 1930. Automobiles had never been built to be aerodynamic, he posited, and he was right.