Background
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May 2021 - NYC, New York
The City Council sits at their long table discussing the typical political things, and then the topic of the NYC Taxis came up. The current lineup of Taxi is full of old dilapidated 90s Sisten GS’s, unreliable LaFettes, and other older cars that desperately need replacing, and with the recent introduction of the Mika eSport to the lineup.
The Council has decided it’d be best to spend the tax payer’s hard-earned money on a brand new lineup of taxi cabs for the city. “But what are we going to buy?” said a worried Council member. “Should we just buy whatever is popular?” said another. “No,” said the head Councilor “I have a plan” he took out his laptop. “Let’s set up a campaign to allow various automotive companies to send in their vehicles, and whichever three we choose will be our new lineup.” he exclaimed confidently. The other City Council members agreed among each other and the campaign was set up. ik, not a very good background but it basic and works
Trim Requirements and Preferences
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Trim and Model years can vary from 2018-2020 (2021 cars are accepted)
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Inline 4-3, EV (what the boxer engine is for), V6s, and certain Boxers may be considered engines (NO V10s, V12s, V8s, or V16s) The Council wants very fuel-efficient cars, and yes V6s and Boxers are traditionally not fuel-efficient but you can make them as such.
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Adv. Autos and normal Autos are strictly forced among the lineup, although DCT transmissions are allowed. They are easy to use for the cab drivers and help control the car better on bigger roads
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Maximum ET of 150
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The Taxis must have some cut technology slightly (doesn’t mean full on Basic, just no luxury, sport, handmade and to an extent premium as well) and visual components like panoramic sunroofs (as they’ll be holding advertisements and taxi signs) although LED headlights are preferred, this is to keep the price lower as they will be bought in bulk
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Vehicle must have a relatively high environmental resistance as the salted roads of NYC can cause a lot of rust over time
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minimum MPG rating of 30 US mpg or higher to keep the vehicle on the road longer and to be more efficient.
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4-door sedans, SUVs, Wagons, large Hatchbacks, liftbacks, and MPVs are preferred - No pickups, coupes, utility vans, utes, convertibles, or super/hypercars.
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5 full-sized seats minimum, 7 seats are allowed.
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Body unlock year must be 2005 or over - Like in abg’s CSR they shouldn’t look like rolling relics.
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Maximum cost $35,000 - since it’s going to be bought in bulk the Council wants it to be relatively cheap
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NO MEME OR 3-FIXTURE VEHICLES, meme mods will not be tolerated either.
Engine Rules & Recommendations
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Variant year must be between 2018-2020
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Engine can be fuel efficiently turbocharged or naturally aspirated
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No performance or race parts - You can most likely guess why
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Maximum loudness of 35
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Maximum engine emissions of 70
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Maximum ET of 150
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No V8s, V10s, V12s, V16s, or I5-6s and a maximum of 4 valves per cylinder
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91, 95 or 98 RON accepted
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3-way or high flow 3-way converters only
Major Priorities (in decreasing order of importance) 
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Reliability - The car is going to be spending the rest of its miserable days from the factory in a claustrophobic, overly busy city day in and day out until it is replaced so, reliability is a very big factor to the car since it cannot break down on the street mid transport
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Practicality - Since the cabs will be picking up people from train stations, airports, and bus terminals. A large boot space to fit all the luggage is needed.
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Drivability - It’s going to be driving for a very long time, so this car needs to be controllable and able to brake well in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Moderate Priority
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Running Costs - Since it’s expected that these vehicles won’t be the most performance-based vehicles in the world, the cost to run and service the vehicles is not as high as you would expect, but if a vehicle has expensive or hard to find parts it will be dropped from the campaign.
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Comfort - Like with Reliability and Drivability these cabs will be running for a long time sometimes overnight, so some comfy seats whether to keep the passengers comfortable or driver comfortable too will be a moderate contributing factor
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Safety - Although you’ll mostly be in the city or in bumper-to-bumper traffic, you will also still be driving on dangerous roads so a safe vehicle is required to keep the passengers safe.
Minor Priorities
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Sportiness - There’s no need for a sporty car on these roads, their always busy, blocked up and it’d be too expensive to have a sporty car unless it is a dumbed-down version
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Prestige - It’s a Taxi no one cares
Tips
- Be sensible and don’t min-max kids, you’ll be binned
- You don’t have to create an entirely new car for this challenge, you may use a heavily modified version of an already existing car whether even if its a traditionally sporty car, if you re-engineer correctly it’ll be considered
- Saving money is good, but don’t do too far under budget, you will be binned
- And finally, if it isn’t listed in the rules, then it isn’t a rule
Designing Tips
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Various Taxi Liveries you could do
I’ve seen Taxi Cabs with these little red reflectors (sometimes in front too) and window stickers
These rims are preferred but factory rims are allowed
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your entries with the .car file via PM on the forums using the following naming scheme:
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Model & Engine family name: NACC - your forum name
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Trim & Engine variant name: Your car’s make and model and engine’s model and variant
ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN AD (or a photo of the car)
Submissions will open Thursday, May 6th at 10:00 AM EST and will close Thursday, May 20th at 10:00 AM EST. If a vehicle is submitted beforehand then it will be insta-binned that goes with submission submitted 5 hours after closing.
Please note if there’s any feedback on things I should fix I am open to it, I am still relatively new to Taxi law so if I missed something or got something wrong please notify me.
Final note, if you end up not winning and cause drama I will take the image from CSR 94 and plaster it here, but in all, good luck, and have fun
, and I was debating increasing maximum loudness, I just don’t know what would be quite appropriate
