Car from 2.03.2016, Geneva Auto Show. Posting again for sake of completiness.
BTW sales delayed to early 2017, development took quite longer that we thought
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Aha! I remember seeing that at the auto show. Feels like ages ago!
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Haha thx
I found them and thought that it would be nice to share them also here
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Time for new model!
MY2017 Airborne Mimas (Standard/Eco)
Some months ago we presented almost production ready concept Mimas for public. Surprisingly enough, mostly poor students/young people who were searching for their first car were mostly interested in production plans, however argued about some questions. When we prepared full-ready production version we listened to them and created practically new Mimas (concept was well, bit too extreme). These versions, especially Eco, were prepared as cheap commuters for poor people, those who don’t need very much stuff (just car to drive) and possibly most universal one.
One of achievements with Mimas is fact that it reached lowest mileage ever recorded on Airborne’s production car. Also, it’s achievable - hence our fuel mileage testing program tests this value on real roads, in real life, in real traffic.
The car will cost 13.995 $ in Eco variant and 16.140 $ in Standard version (both without taxes and fees), however students and young/learning people who need their commuter to go to school will get 30% discount on Eco version.
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2017 Airborne Mimas S
Sporty version of production car called Mimas. Still has FWD. Main differences are stiffened suspension, more power, fuckmassive wing on the rear (downforce yo), interior stripped out of two seats (prototype S had four seats, hence the weight difference, current one is below a tonne), sporty Sparco bucket seats, less entertainment equipment (reduced to basic radio with mp3 usb player) and steering wheel taken from Haiyan. Price - 18.380 $ without taxes and fees.
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Let’s bring one of our historical vehicles:
1982-1987 Airborne Persephone
Named after Greek-mythology goddess of underground world and wife of Hades, Persephone was the thing that post-1973 Airborne needed since presentation of A27; reliable, fairly cheap, competitive compact. After announcing in 1982 and selling first cars it became instant hit; in first year there were 150.000 units sold.
First variant released in 1982 was 3-door hatchback. At the time it was one of cheaper Airborne vehicles, costing 5.130 $ (hatch variant). It featured nothing special, but at the time was considered as one of perfect first cars for young drivers. RWD, hatchback line, pop-ups - everything that company needed to attract young buyer with. It wasn’t the most comfortable option but hey, it was cheap to maintain and that was the hit!
In 1982 World also saw another Persephone variant oriented to those who needed more trunk space; Persephone wagon. Technically it wasn’t differing from hatchback except for stiffness tweaks. In comparison to hatchback variant, wagon had better weight balance (F/R), was slightly lighter, had slightly bigger fuel mileage and costed 5.210 $.
1983 for Persie (coloquially nicknamed from Persephone) was the performance year. In this year three trims appeared: Coupe, Coupe Stage I (or Coupe S1, as another name), and the most powerful, Coupe Stage II. But back to “basic” coupe, this variant has altered rear lights, shorter rear than it’s hatchback/wagon counterparts and overall it was set up for sport. In comparison to hatchback variant (considered to 1987 as a base variant) it had lower top speed, but better acceleration due to gearbox setup that has been suited more for twisty tracks than straights. Persie Coupe has been also lighter and slightly better in turns. It was priced for 5.160 $.
Coupe Stage I, massivelly offered sportier variant of Persie was way less uneconomical than it’s “civil” counterpart due to excessive power boost and gearbox setups. Suspension was also changed to provide more sporty feel. Engine got almost 30 hp more power and redline moved to 6500 RPM. Aero-wise the car had also some changes; rear wing and hood scoop got installed for better aero efficiency and downforce providement. In 1990s and 2000s tuners and racers from Japan found Persephone Coupe S1 as great alternative for Toyota AE86 for drift championships, because it could be easily tweaked to perform epic drifts.
In 1983 it was 5.260 $ retail (without additional fees and taxes, like everything we sold xD).
OOPS. WILL PROVIDE PERFORMANCE DATA LATER.
In the same year Airborne Automotive was preparing entry for A-group championship, however due to costs of entry and team it has been cancelled and the project was released instead. Due to no official presentation, Stage II wasn’t very known and only few people actually bought the car (441 units are known to be made and sold). Persephone S2 was built on S1 coupe, but got more altered to be street-legal race car. By installing turbocharging system engine car got heavier, but also more powerful - reliable 160 hp from 1.6 I4 was almost unbelievable for fact that it was de-tuned race engine (race variant had almost 250 hp). Exterior-wise car got better, more reliable rimsInterior was stripped out of unnecessary equipment leaving only bucket seats, gauges and stuff necessary to drive and control the car. In 1990s every possible unit was raced or drifted to death due to potential even bigger than in Persie S1.
This resulted in fact that currently all over the world are only 33 Persies Stage 2 left, other cars have been destroyed.
It has been priced in 1983 for 6.920 $ and sales stopped in February 1984 when magazine with parts of the car got empty.
In 1984 last variant of Persephone was released - Delivery van. In comparison to wagon, it has been set up to be more efficient or reliable resulting in quite boring result. It has also 2 seats instead of 4 from Wagon. It got also AWD.
It was priced at 5.430 $.
I wpuld love an 83 coupe for the DSD museum if u r interested just pm myself cheers
Basic variant or those sportier ones?
Because I guess that getting mint Stage II for you would be like searching for unicorn.
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The original basic coupe please. I figure the highend have been raced/modified. If u send 2 i will gift one to my tame racing drivers lol
if you will only publish results of how the car was treaten then okay
(personally I would read this in DSD thread xD)
Any wishes to color? Because all cars that company has to sell are Championship White, haha
Eventually we can repaint the car to other color lol
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White is great lol. I will use one in the museum with a link to here and some further storyline for my staff which is in dire need of updateing. Pleasure to do business with you.
well, so the year of action is somewhere in 1980s or what? xD
I mean in your case
Nah modern times 2015 i am at so it’l be worded as i purchased a runner and a parts car and my driver and engineers will prep a modern version for the australia drifting championship
Oh, so modern drift car?
However I’m afraid that Persephones weren’t sold with Right Hand Drive… 
Np il swap a mk3 supra steering rack and chop the dash. The other will stay as if it drove of the production floor. Rh/lh drive meh lol most of my employees specialize in converting american cars to r/h for private imports
Don’t forget to show results after conversion! 
And I guess you won’t use 80hp I4 from 80s for drifting 
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It will b after the 1st i have a funneral that day so after then i will do a seperate page for company “toys” in the DSD thread. I will not let u down. And its a 1.6 i can should be able to get close to 4agze power
News from airborneautomotive.com
On main page, there’s an informatiin with Haiyan promo pic posted and headline “Haiyan is coming to an end”. Text of the article below
When we were presenting Haiyan in Q4 2014, we were proud of it and we scored 25.000 redeems for the car in the year. Sadly, sales started to slightly drop but still keeping acceptable level. Today, however we need to finish it’s route in Q1 2017 by releasing 500 last Haiyans, resulting in 17.237 cars due to lack of passing emission standards and the body isn’t strong enough to safe it’s passengers in today’s times. The demand also requires something different and we want to put our racing experience to make something more brutal but in meanwhile more all-around while keeping the same formula of the car.
Prepare for the end.
Sincerely
Mei Onashikara, Press Informator of Airborne Automotive
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Okay. Since my massive performance issues on current update of Automation I’ll sit and wait patiently for UE4 update which (hopefully) will be more optimized for weaker PCs.
For now, I put this company on hold and actually when UE4 update pulls out, I plan to remake all the cars and make something more storyline based with actually told names of CEOs, The Founder and all of them and put the cars in more chronological update and maybe better made vehicles more accurate to the era this time?
Tell me what do you think, for now Kee chapter of Airborne is closed.
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