Budget bash

[undercoverhardwarema]

Due to a computer issue, combined with the server issues Automation had, I’ve lost all my Pegasus models, except 1. This is not it. The Porter van, despite my best efforts, doesn’t score higher than 99 in any category. However, I have re-created the Courier. For lore reasons, there was never a sedan, but in this case, the sedan trumps the coupe by a good 20 points. Also, it originally had a 1300cc OHC 4 cylinder, which I have replaced with a 1500cc pushrod 4 cylinder. I bring this up, because anyone who visits my company thread will likely note the differences. All of my lore, is based on lite campaigns that I ran: That being said, if I had ran this in my budget campaign, I may have broke the high score.

Anyway, enough boring exposition; the sight you’ve come to see. The Pegasus Courier Sedan. At $5,728 with 0% markup, and 49.1 hp @ 4000 rpm, 73.1 lb. ft. of torque @ 2500 rpm, topping out in 3rd gear at 76.0 mph.

Fun Budget: 139.7
Pony Budget: 126.3
Family Ut. Budget: 113.5
Utility Budget: 102
City Budget: 102
Commuter Budget: 101
Available in any color, as long as it’s black.
Courier - Sedan.car (19.1 KB)

[HighOctaneLove]

2006 Proletariat 1K

Decadent Westerners are damn hard to sell to!

Commuter B - 120.9
Family Utility B - 109.9
City B - 108
Family B - 107.9

Budget Bash 2006 - Proletariat 1K.car (22.7 KB)

2016 Proletariat 1K

Better than you’d expect; but you need VERY low expectations!

Commuter B - 129.6
Fun B - 109.8
Family B - 104.1
City B - 103.3

Budget Bash 2016 - Proletariat 1K.car (24.3 KB)

[Zabhawkin]

@HighOctaneLove really took to this challenge.

[VicVictory]

Of course. It’s tailor made for him!

[Zabhawkin]

The first generation 1946 DMA compact truck

Offroad Budget 216.8
Utility Budget 136.5

CT10 - Budget.car (23.8 KB)

[HighOctaneLove]

1946 Wentworth Womble

The first Womble poses outside the new Wentworth factory

After the horrors of WWII, Sir Reginald Wentworth decided he needed to build a small sports car to help the returning troops re-acclimate to civilian life. Using his connections within the Ministry of War and BMC (Bleurgh Motor Company), Sir Wentworth procured a number of ‘A’ series engines and paraphernalia with which to build his dream upon.

Having no idea how to design or tune an engine, Sir Wentworth scoured the Ministry of War’s labour pool, looking for an engineer and architect to make the Womble possible. Sir Wentworth was able to recruit an aircraft designer, Percival Smith, and an aero engineer, Harold Brewer. With the help of these men and a workforce of underpaid women, the Wentworth Womble was ready for sale in March of 1946…

Womble!!! What is it good for?

Track B - 114.4

So nearly absolutely nothing

Budget Bash II 1946 - Wentworth Womble.car (22.2 KB)

[Aaron.W]

2001 1st Generation TSR Taikan Type S

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The perfect cheap sports budget car for you. And, it’s mid engined! And, an advanced all-pushrod suspension!!!
Sport B - 100.8
TSR Taikan (TM1) - Type S.car (22.1 KB)

[HighOctaneLove]

1956 Wentworth Womble

2nd generation coupe with a secret that’ll shock the purists!

Ten years (and about 40k units) after the first Wentworth Womble hit the road, the Mk II Womble went on sale. There were a number of changes, chief being updated styling, but there were two shocks in store for the Womble enthusiast. The first was changing production from a ladder frame to a monocoque frame, which reduced weight and material costs, and the second, which proved to be very controversial, was a switch to longitudinal front wheel drive!

But the Mk II was easier to drive and sportier than its predecessor so, for every die hard enthusiast lost, Wentworth gained five fresh fans!

So, why do you even care?

Light Sport B - 117

Making budget sports cars is really hard. Not because it’s especially difficult, but because of the hideous mutations you have to spawn!

Budget Bash II 1956 - Wentworth Womble Mk II.car (20.9 KB)

[flop404]

1955 SARA 3 - 36L

The best Family utility budget on the market

(preproduction design - final product might slightly vary)

A bit of a preview for my upcoming lore thread update, the SARA 3 in the 36L trim !

Complete characteristics undisclosed yet, but SARA is proud to boast its SARA 3 unprecedented (*) mileage of 30 MPG (us), while offering increased comfort, security and drivability over the SARA Armistice it replaces.

And it’s cheaper, too (by 1$)

(*)Unprecedented for any SARA car

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SARA 3 - 36 L.car (20.5 KB)

Utility B 122.6
Fam Util B 134.9
Commuter B 127.4
Family B 120.7
Fun B 126.9
City B 135

And it also manages to reach around 120 in Pass Fleet, and regular (not basic) family Utility, Commuter or City car segments - not to mention being the car you’re looking for if you hope for a City Eco, at more than 140 relative desirability !

Buy Wise, Buy SARA !

SARA, everyone deserves a princess !

This is a (upcoming) lore car, not intended specifically for this challenge.
Though I’m nowt tempted to build a dedicated subcompany for budget cars
The shameless bragging and autopromotion is also intended to be read in-lore, I’m aware this is not the greatest car ever, by far…

[stm316]

Released in 1962 with a whopping 155hp, the Oldman Privateer, their second 2 door with sporting aspirations.

• Sport Budget 107.3
• Convertible Sport Budget 99.1

[HighOctaneLove]

1966 Wentworth Womble

Luckily the 3rd gen Womble looks like it goes fast!

For the 3rd generation Womble there was a changing of the guard at Wentworth. Lord Wentworth (yup, he’s of the landed gentry now!) decided to hire a new designer. A young Italian lad by the name of Antonio Sperelli replaced Percival Smith and Robert Barker, an aspiring F1 engineer, replaced Harold Brewer.

The result? A mid-engined buzzbox with multiple carburettors and an enhanced rev-limit! (compared to the Mk I engine)

What’ll it do, mister?

Light Sport B - 104.9

Yup, just scraped this one over the line, but I learnt heaps about min-maxing!

Budget Bash II 1966 - Wentworth Womble Mk III.car (25.0 KB)

[flop404]

Is it the camera angle, is it the wheel size, is it the trims, is it the color ?

I’d buy a 3rd gen Womble. Twice. Just for the looks.

It echoes strongly of the Lotus Europa, with some Dino thrown in to make it look even better.

Now, sure, I doubt it sounds like the Dino while handling like the Europa, but it certainly does look the part

[VicVictory]

@flop404

Buy Wise, Buy SARA !

Gets the popcorn and watches the Bogliq and SARA lawyers hash out the impending lawsuit for too-similar taglines

[albacete84a]

Thi is My car HABICHT 650 producted in East Europe in 1960

HABICHT - 650.car (28.3 KB)

[flop404]

Gets the popcorn and watches the Bogliq and SARA lawyers hash out the impending lawsuit for too-similar taglines

Yeah, I realized I might usubconsciously have thought of the amazing Bogliq cars while writing this … oops.

Worse, I made a mashup between Sophia and Sarah - it is Sophia that means wisdom, not Sarah (which mean princess apparently, but I cannot spin “princess” in any way with those cars)

My apologies to @HighOctaneLove for the unintentionnal plagiarism - excessive focus on finding my checkbook for the Wentworth Womble MkIII distracted me - that punchline won’t be coming back !

edit : punchline edited

[flop404]

I did some experiment out of the lore… Which basically shows that the market competitiveness, as it is, is a bit… unpolished.

The lack of “true” convertible bodies (recognized as such) does not help, but by making some… Well, absurd, actually settings, you can manage some pretty high scores while actually making a worse car.

I aimed at at least two market segments for each car

1950 Sport Basic / Conv Sport B

I was actually aiming at light sport, then realized my setup was much better for higher end, score-wise

Sport Basic 121.8
Conv Sport Basic 141.2

Seems good, no ?

Yes, the 1200cc , I4 DOHC (75 hp) is enough to reach close to 100 mph…
But then who would ride a sports car that needs well over 100 yards to go from 60 mph to 0, has a mediocre 0.8g skidpad figure, and costs over 10 000$ @ 0 markup and requires premium fuel (and 1000$ yearly service costs) ???

Sport - conv B - Trim 8.car (9.7 KB)

1968 Convertible Basic / Premium Basic

I went to 1968 in search of a “true” convertible body - yet there is still the body type penalty apparently

So, premium, Gasmea, sixties… I obviously thought of a V8, but then, as silly as it might be, the V12 brought soooooooo much smoothness you couldn’t make another choice if shooting for score…

A “small” (3729 cc) V12, pushing 129 hp, obviously running on premium

From then on, just put some insanely long automatic, bad brakes, overengineer the cooling airflow, and you get some sort of statistical anomaly

Convertible Basic 157.1
Premium Basic 149.2

But also over 180 as a plain convertible, some 130.4 as a SUV, 120.5 as a commuter car and 110.9 as a City Premium (with a V12 !!! On a 120’ wheelbase !!!) -

Overall it managed to be over 100 competitiveness in 16 market segments while being, basically, an unreliable and somewhat dangerous car

BB Premium - Conv Premium.car (9.9 KB)

I guess this will work much better with actual competitors when LC3 comes, as it is, min-maxing (even with low skills like mine) makes for some fun, but irrational builds

No images as I didn’t think these deserved working on the fixtures - though I might save the engines for future use

[flop404]

You can directly import the cars

That’s too much green…

[Chickenbiscuit]

Jonrosh Car Company - Workhourse.car (18.6 KB)

This is awful, but it scores high

[Zabhawkin]

[undercoverhardwarema]

This is the Giusseppe G-120. I know it says EXT, but I changed it to the coupe you see in the 2nd picture. This coupe has 2+3 seating, meaning the back seat is like a utility bench (I don’t know if you’ve ever ridden in the back of a CJ5 before). It has a 1203 cc 3 cylinder that produces 41.5 hp and 60 lb ft torque, although being an Italian marque, should post those numbers in metric -G-120 - Coupe.car (15.1 KB)