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Minho Park is a newly successful up-and-coming lawyer whose law firm has started gaining traction. His lower-class upbringing and extreme work ethic has gotten him to where he is today, and imbued in him a sense of financial prudence. He grew up with his father, who was able to afford a small light sports car that he has obsessively taken care of. Like father like son, Minho loved driving it and learned to appreciate what sporty driving dynamics mean.
Eunji Lee is an architect and interior designer who’s been steadily gaining more and more high-value projects. Her privileged upbringing comes with a wide network and rich friends - including a taste of the finer things in life and a need to keep up socially. Eunji would need the car to be easy to drive to different project sites and practical enough to carry her friends when going out.
They both regularly use public transport currently, but feel the need of a private vehicle due to the increased need of sudden client meetings or project site visits, some of which are far away from public transport or outside the city. Eunji’s friends have also started to buy their own cars, and the couple would like their own as well now that they can afford one. Although Eunji mainly wanted a car that was comfortable and prestigious, Minho wanted one with character, not just another soul-less appliance that got you from point A to B. He knew it would be hard to find a sporty car that is both practical and comfortable in this day and age, but he would really appreciate it if the car has nice and sporty driving dynamics.
Both Minho and Eunji will need to drive the car every day to meet with clients, visit project sites or the occasional late night outing with friends. They want it to be easy to drive in any scenario - narrow city streets, congested traffic, tight parking spots, and highway cruising.
They both are willing to pay a premium for much better comfort, and will use the car very frequently - sometimes in traffic, sometimes out of the city, and would like it to be a very comfortable place to be in.
Social status and image are important things everywhere, especially in Korea. Eunji would like to show she can keep up with her friends whilst Minho figured it might help his career image as well.
They would appreciate good active and passive safety features and not have to think about being unsafe.
Both of them would really appreciate a well-designed car that looks expensive and classy and not some crazy aggressive over-designed cheap-looking appliance.
With extremely hectic schedules, they both really do not want to deal with any issues at all.
Minho would really appreciate if the car had the driving dynamics he once loved in his father’s sports car.
Eunji needs to haul her co-workers, clients, and friends around quite frequently.
They would rather spend the money on other things such as Subways and soju.
They are willing to maintain it well, but keep it reasonable.
We are designing and making a car for the 2024 year, but we will use Automation’s 2020 year.
- Model & Trim Year: 2020
- Engine & Variant Year: 2020
- Max Wheelbase: 2.8m or below. (110 in)
- Body Styles: Sedans, crossovers, wagons, hatchbacks, small SUVs.
- Fuel Type: 91 RON preferred, 95 RON allowed. (1.04x Fuel Eco penalty)
- Seats: At least 5 seats.
- Doors: At least 4 doors.
- Tyres: Non-race radials ending in 5. (No semi-slicks)
- Emissions: WES11
- Max Loudness: 40
- Max Budget: $30,000
- Minimum Quality: 0
- Techpool: $45M, Combined
- Minimum Techpool: 5
(The default techpool of +5 everywhere gives a combined $26.36M. An additional $18.64M should be plenty enough for individual brands to specialize in their particular expertise and bring costs down to match the budget. However, you are not forced to use the techpool if you choose not to - you can keep it at 5.)
Remember this is for a premium car, not a luxury one.
- Model and Family names: QFC43 - forum username
- Trim and Variant Names: Free
- A forum post ad on this thread is required, showing at least one picture of your entry.
- All submissions must be sent in via DM to @Oreology.
- Submissions open on March 30, 2024.
- Submissions close on April 11, 2024. (GMT-11)
QFC43 - A Car with Soul Countdown Clock - No re-submissions!
The priorities above should counter-act each other, and a well balanced car should do well enough. They are not looking for a luxury car, just a more premium and sportier option to a typical utilitarian car such as a Toyota or Honda. The one-star priorities are still important, although those in the two-star category take slight precedence.
Additional note - please do NOT bother with interiors, this is a QFC!
- Added new requirement: Must have 4 doors.
- Increased max wheelbase to 2.8m (110in) from 2.7m.
- Changed minimum seats to 5 (from 4). (full 3-bench rear)
- Added countdown clock for submissions closing.
- Clarified that a 95 RON vehicle will receive a 1.04x penalty since the couple prefers the cheaper 91 RON.
