CSR Round 18: The Kit Car Dune Buggy
The year is 1967 and the kit car industry is in full swing. With simple tools everyone can build and customise his own little sportscar. That’s always something I wanted to do myself. This year I saw something new, which seemed to be rather fun: It was a dune buggy, big wheels, good offroad capability, while still being fun to drive. I wonder if something like this is on
the market…
Your job is to build a cheap dune buggy.
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You have to use the mass-produced base engine family. Don’t modify that. The engine trim is considered to be a modified version of the base engine from a mass produced car of another manufacturer.
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I will determine the sales price of the car and consider engineering time, production units and material cost. The engineering time and production units will cost $25 each. The base engine will be substracted from your engine variant, so only the changes you make will affect the cost.
So choose parts with low engineering time to make your car affordable. -
You don’t have to adjust/send engineering or factory settings.
Der Bayer - CSR 18 Template.zip (74.6 KB)
How will I choose the winner?
The scoring will be based on 4 criteria:
- desirability: mostly based on sportiness, drivability, offroad, convertible. smaller influences have comfort, safety, prestige.
- cost: anything related to cost - affordability, maintenance, reliability, running cost.
- visuals
- (off)road test: I will run the cars in the BRC simulation (single lap time trial with standing start and 20 kg of fuel) on a new, short track with offroad mechanics I already have prototyped some time ago. Your car’s performance will be penalized based on the offroad rating of the track segment compared to the offroad rating and tyre compound of the car. The track will consist of partly asphalt, partly gravel and sand. No heavy rocks, so you don’t need a heavy duty offroader.
You have to score well to at least be considered. But the highest scoring car may not be the overall winner. If your car is just not affordable, I will not consider it. The same happens if the car is just butt-ugly. So the judging is not only based on numbers.
Deadline: Monday, August 1, 6 pm CEST.
Please send the Automation Export of your car in a PM to me.
One car per participant only. No revisions.
Naming scheme: Car Model: CSR19-car name; Car Trim: CSR19-player name
Mods: Everything except weird morphing bodies and additional engine spot mods
Stable release game version.
Have fun! I will be away over this weekend, so get a feeling for the challenge and I will answer any questions from Monday on! I try to take a look in here in between to catch any major issues though.