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In this paper, benefits of high performance CFD computations for ground vehicle aerodynamics are discussed with the examples of Ahmed body and Formula SAE external aerodynamics. Both problems are highly compute intensive in terms of physics and their grid resolutions. Grid resolution is usually kept high to resolve flow separation, wake kind of complex physical phenomenon. For this, computations have been performed for more than 20 million cells grid. Firstly, Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)-based turbulence study of Ahmed model is done for three slant angle variations, 25°, 30°, and 35°. Sensitivity of solver on solution is analyzed by a grid refinement study. The 2 million and 22 million cells mesh are used for the detailing of solution accuracies and solver speed up. Commercial solver, CFD++, and open source solver, OpenFOAM, are used for RANS computations. Their speed up test is done on supercomputer Eka.