Actually, you voted 5 times. ;p Don’t worry, I can fix it. (I’ll keep your first vote)
I’ll close the poll later today and post the results
Results from the Aesthetics voting:
| 1.71 | Krait | 10th |
|---|---|---|
| 3.42 | Mongoose GT | 8th |
| 3.42 | Meteor XT | 8th |
| 4.19 | Husar | 7th |
| 4.87 | Bandit | 6th |
| 5.28 | Typhoon | 5th |
| 6.50 | Phi Super | 4th |
| 6.76 | Hurricane GT | 2nd |
| 6.76 | Fosse GT | 2nd |
| 7.09 | Whaler | 1st |
On the left you see the normalized scores on a scale from 0 to 10
Congrats at @HighOctaneLove for winning the aesthetics section with the Whaler
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The Top 4 scores are super tight!!
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Man, I knew I phoned it in a bit but it looks like EVERYBODY put me in last!
Pretty much dead in the middle, not good but not bad either. Id say that was a decent showing for a more Euro-Style car up against so many… American Ponys.
I liked yours
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Wow. I’m stunned. I would have thought that the Hurricane GT would win, since it looks like all the best bits of the glory days of the muscle car era skillfully melded together! Maybe if @GassTiresandOil had painted it bright orange… 
I have to give a shout out to a couple of peeps who helped me achieve this success; @VicVictory for pointing out USDM specific flaws for me to fix and @Marcus_gt500 for making me learn how to design better!
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You also had my vote 
I just loved the fact that you stuck a sliding roof that was a common accessory here in the 70s/80s. Gave it that OEM+ style.
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A small update so you don’t think I’ve abandoned you guys 
Our test driver has started doing the track runs with your cars but ‘real life’ stuff is eating into his free time so we’ll have to be a bit more patient with the final results. They will come, sooner or later.
As it stands, here’s a summary of the standings so far:
- Fighting for 1st: Phi Super and Whaler
- 3rd: Husar
- 4th: Mongoose, Typhoon and Hurricane
- 7th: Meteor
- 8th: Krait and Bandit
- 10th: Fosse GT
Quite some interesting fights happening and 26% of the score is still to come.
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Ok, it’s 2021, and we finally have a winner!
Our designated driver had to deal with some real life issues and was unable to finish the time trials but in the meantime, @Count_Quackula stepped up and did them all instead!
Before showing the results, here is what out test driver had to say:
The speed of the times depended mainly on three factors: how well I could put the power down, how good the gearbox was and how much confidence I could have in the car. The automatic transmission vehicles were slow because the gearboxes were terrible, while the top 3 cars had shorter gears and therefore a better power band. The actual power figure mattered very little because there was almost no chance to use it. The cars that were more stable also did well due to the icy section, as the speed a car could carry through that had a heavy impact on the times. The biggest impact was definitely the gearbox so, in future, cars will do better with shorter gears and manual transmissions in terms of time. The 6-cylinder cars handled well but lacked torque so their acceleration was compromised, which affected them quite badly.
Mr. Winthorpe himself also decided to try out the cars himself, and as he is not a professional driver, he just took them for a ride on the East Coast. Here’s are some of the things he was heard muttering as he was stepping out of the vehicles:
Oversteers like crazy…Nice speed, no brakes…Nice acceleration…Easy to drive at slow speed; Goes fast too and is loud…Handles like a truck, too slow to 50km/h, Very fast from 50 to 100. Needs gearing work…Can’t turn above 100…1st gear reaches 110? Good power but undrivable above 70km/h…Brakes? What brakes? Great at 120km/h but you’ll probably die after that. Feels like a tank.
THE RESULTS
(I normalized all the results from 0 to 10. As a rule, if there was no max or min for that part of the challenge, then the best score was a 10 and the lowest a 0. For the automation rating part, 100 was the 0 and the best was the maximum)
Automation Scores:(33%)
| Phi Super | 10.00 |
|---|---|
| Whaler | 8.04 |
| Husar | 8.09 |
| Mongoose GT | 7.86 |
| Typhoon | 5.63 |
| Hurricane GT | 3.95 |
| Meteor XT | 4.77 |
| Krait | 5.50 |
| Bandit | 0.04 |
| Fosse GT | -2.85 |
Aesthetics(26%)
| Whaler | 10.00 |
|---|---|
| Hurricane GT | 9.53 |
| Fosse GT | 9.53 |
| Phi Super | 9.17 |
| Typhoon | 7.45 |
| Bandit | 6.87 |
| Husar | 5.91 |
| Mongoose GT | 4.83 |
| Meteor XT | 4.83 |
| Krait | 2.41 |
Mr. Winthorpe test drive(15%) (scored on a 0 to 10 scale)
| Bandit | 7 |
|---|---|
| Whaler | 6 |
| Husar | 6 |
| Phi Super | 5 |
| Meteor XT | 5 |
| Mongoose GT | 4 |
| Typhoon | 4 |
| Krait | 4 |
| Hurricane GT | 3 |
| Fosse GT | 2 |
Time Trial(26%)
| Meteor XT | 10.00 |
|---|---|
| Hurricane GT | 8.80 |
| Krait | 6.71 |
| Whaler | 6.08 |
| Husar | 5.13 |
| Mongoose GT | 4.81 |
| Fosse GT | 4.56 |
| Typhoon | 3.35 |
| Bandit | 2.59 |
| Phi Super | 0.00 |
THE FINAL RESULTS!
| Whaler | 7.73 |
|---|---|
| Hurricane GT | 6.52 |
| Husar | 6.44 |
| Phi Super | 6.43 |
| Meteor XT | 6.18 |
| Mongoose GT | 5.70 |
| Typhoon | 5.26 |
| Krait | 4.79 |
| Bandit | 3.52 |
| Fosse GT | 3.02 |
So yes, the Whaler by @HighOctaneLove is the overall winner!
And because it’s so close(much closer I would imagine on a competition with so many parts and variables) I declare the Hurricane, the Husar and the Phi Super joint seconds! Congrats to @GassTiresandOil @ImKaeR @S31
Thanks to everybody who joined and made this challenge super fun!
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I was happy to help, thank you for the opportunity! There were so many great cars to test, and I thoroughly enjoyed driving them. Well done to everyone, and I hope to be invited back in the future 
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Perfectly average! I’m fine with that result. Thanks for hosting this competition dude!
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Ho. Lee. Fark. That is a close one! Proud to have had a hand in the winning car (the engine is an Ardent design with carburetor modifications). Great job to all, and good, interesting competition, pcmoreno!
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Thankyou @pcmoreno for this fun and entertaining competition. It was structured well, judged well and attracted a lot of excellent competitors; the last being a sign you’ve formatted your ruleset well, hahaha!!! I will definitely enter any competition you choose to run in the future.
Thankyou @VicVictory for supplying the strong foundation of this project. His engines and tuning (especially of this era) matches the real life setups of American Iron well, which makes for an authentic driving experience and period correct soundtrack! You need help with the technical side of Automation? PM VicVictory and he’ll do his best to help you out. There’s a reason I enter all his competitions; he’s tough but fair and he makes it just as fun to participate as it is to win.
Love ya Vic!!! 
Thankyou @Marcus_gt500 for helping me lift my designer game, ensuring that the Whaler would at least look good. My original vision was that @patridam would design the car (he’s brilliant at period correct USDM designs) but he wasn’t available. So I did my best attempt and, thankfully, the Whaler looks handsome as well as period correct. The effort I took to make the Whaler look good has inspired me to, eventually, redo my lore cars with superior aesthetics; it really lifts the spirit knowing your car actually looks like it could’ve existed, hahaha!!!
Want to learn to design cars? Then check out Marcus’s threads; lots of design inspiration and he’s also really helpful if you are willing to shoot him a PM, hahaha!!!
A father is saved by his son...
James was kept busy at Bogliq by Design, learning the ropes, so he never found out if his dad’s job was saved or not. The details of the Whaler project were far from his mind as he watched the designers pen the sketches of the first generation Ungoliant; Bogliq’s first supercar!
Time passed.
April 1999
James had risen from strength to strength in Bogliq USA, he was now a top tier manager and knew how to make a car company hum with efficiency. But, on this early April morning, two events came together to derail his neatly laid out plans… His dad had suddenly died and Ardent recruiters were waving fat sums in his face to go work for them.
James had resolved to stay where he was, but he’d just found a note from his dad inside the immaculate 1969 Winthorpe Whaler that James had inherited from his father’s will…
James took the Ardent guys up on their offer; James knew just how important to his dad it was for James to follow in his fathers footsteps. James hoped his dad would, somehow, know just how much James missed him and would be pleased with his son’s decision to finally work for Ardent…
October 2004
James stood down from the podium, pushed past the agitated knot of reporters and got into his beloved Whaler. It started up first time, as always, and he left the onlookers a set of loud, smokey “11’s” out the front of the Ardent HQ.
It was time to go home, look after his mom, wife and kids. In particular, his son needed a stay at home dad, he had something called “Autism”, so James was gonna do what his dad would have done; be by his boy’s side so his son would have the chance to thrive…
James felt the tears run down his cheeks.
“I love you, Dad”
THE END
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This was my first challenge so I think I messed something up regarding the rules but it was a lot of fun and I was glad to have participated. Thank you for having me!
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by the way, for those who have not noticed it yet, there is already a sequel for this one…
http://discourse.automationgame.com/t/car-design-competition-the-light-sports-car-with-style-and-perfomance/37422
Also, would you guys be interested in an informal multiplayer race(on beamMP) with the your pony’s?
Congratulations on the win with the Whaler, again my apologies that I wasn’t able to help. It turned out quite good looking nonetheless. If the idea for collaboration strikes you again I will try to be better available.
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Some racing would be cool, but damn those cars are tricky to handle
yes, it would be hilarious. Especially if everyone would use a simple gamepad or keyboard.
If I had to choose between gamepad or keyboard, I would rather choose my wheel 
Other options are just pure masochism