When Sportiness and quarter mile time are two of the most lightly weighted criteria, you shouldn’t complain about lack of acceleration This really was designed to be a working man’s truck. Lots of early torque to help with towing, great utility and practicality, reasonable price tag and low running costs, comparatively speaking. Also, a safety stat of 56 is not bad by any means. If you have a frontal accident with, say, a Vauxhall Astra you will certainly be coming out on top because this truck has a long nose and a big V8 for absorbing the crash before you get hurt.
Anyway, nice review and I’m happy to be 4th I never expected to do this well and I’m looking forward to stage 2of the Farm Truck Challenge!
You don’t understand the frustration Americans would have with a slowly accelerating truck. Just trust me lol.
I think that came through in the review. If it didn’t, I meant for it to.
Consider yourself graded on a curve. The competition ranged from the high 40s to the mid 80s and there weren’t many folks in the 56.5 range, especially for those using thecarlover’s body.
It was a really good truck overall and it earned its position. You definitely made some great design choices. Hope to see the sporty Buffalo make up for the lack of acceleration in FTC Stage 2.
We have an expression here in Norway that goes “å hoppe etter Wirkola” which roughly translates to “like jumping after Wirkola”. Wirkola was the worlds best ski jumper by far for several years. So for us petrolheads it comes to something like “driving after Ayrton Senna”, you’re just not going to be as good. Well, I think you just set the bar for feedback/reviews after competitions on the forums, great work!
I really threw the truck together in a short time, that is why there was a difference between the model and the trim fixtures, some illogical choices like the 7 gears, aluminum wheel, and VVT. And yes, hydropneumatic was the only way to get those offroad sway bars.
I was not expecting much, therefore i am super happy i made it the 3rd. Even more happy now that i am 3rd, because the wait for my review would have killed me
Every times it gets betters, first the blurps, then the full review, and now the video review … next time it will include stop motion of a clay-model of the second place with an special apperance of Jason from Engineering Explained and his white board Seriously, great work!
You can also have offroad sway bars using Air suspension. Which (I think) is only available using Double wishbone.
C’mon guys, y’all will kill me if I have to improve for every position. At that rate, I’d have to go out back, actually build the winning truck, and then ride it around my hometown IRL and show you the review with Go-Pros mounted everywhere. You want that? I’ll be taking donations in increments of 10,000 USD.
Glad y’all liked it. Thanks to TheTom for helping me out with the video software. It’s opened doors to future collaboration. Stay tuned for that and the next two reviews when we coordinate our schedules again.
Yeah, well, SURPRISE!
That was my intention. I hope y’all don’t mind the extra time these take. I think it’s worth it.
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Appreciate all the comments like this thus far. I wasn’t sure this would be the best idea, it really drags out the results stage, but what fun is a challenge with no suspense? I’m going to do my best to work with Tom to get the top two released pretty close together. No point in keeping the winner waiting when all the other positions have been announced.
I have no problem with the extra time taken. Effectively, car-magazine review blurbs for the general public, full-fledged reviews for 4th and 5th, and video reviews for the top 3? No way in heck I’m gonna complain about a little extra time being taken. You’ve set the bar high, and I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing.
I was hoping to do the recording with Tom yesterday, but I got sick from working Double OT in the snow, did some wheelin’ and dealin’ with my work colleagues to trade some shifts so I didn’t have to work 3 consecutive nights last week, and wound up working all day Sunday in the several resulting shift swaps.
Anyway, I intend to knock this out ASAP. I don’t enjoy not having the results out any more than any of you. I’m in the midst of an abnormally busy time of year, so I’ll try to get the top two out relatively soon.
I apologize for the length of time it has taken to get to the final reviews. I said I wouldn’t be one of those challenge hosts who keeps the participants dangling waiting for results. I got really close and I thought I had planned the timing well. Then life and my second semester of law school happened and I had to drop everything.
You have probably seen me poking around the forums, but you’ll notice I have not participated in any challenges in quite some time. However, I am on break until August, even though I will be working full-time in the interim. Therefore, I will be finishing these reviews (hopefully) today. I apologize that they will not be video reviews. I have not had the time to collaborate with Tom and I don’t want to inconvenience him as I know that he works. In hindsight, I should have saved the video review for our winner. Unfortunately hindsight is 20/20, not forethought.
Regardless, I intend to crank out some thorough written reviews for our top two trucks so that I can finalize this challenge and get to work on my summer idea. So without any further ado, I thank you for your patience and understand those that ran out of theirs months ago.
Finally the results and the reviews are in. Congratulations to all entrants on a closely contested battle in the Farm Truck Challenge. Your Top-2 trucks are listed below and the reviews, as well as the detailed scoring spreadsheet, are attached below.
This is soooo long overdue, but I somehow never got around to start on the new forum. As I remember it, Automation changed forum during this challenge. I have been away for a long time, but recently found my way back again, to see that I won. How great is that?!
I’m kinda blown away by how much effort you put into this challenge. I just looked through the whole thread, and that’s a lot of work you put down.
Now to the review for my truck… I have to say I laughed a lot, reading it. Mainly because I apparently made several involuntary jokes/innuendos. You see, I’m quite colorblind, and was sure that my truck was a shade of white. Well, it seems it wasn’t. The name Grinder, was genuinely with the “work” meaning in mind. However, when combined with the color pink, I see how it all could look like a huge joke, but I can’t take credit for that. (I showed it to my girlfriend, while reading this, and she cried with laughter)
So even though it’s almost two years late this reply, I still felt you deserved one. Thanks for the work you put into it
For what it’s worth I have also become substantially less active as I became fully involved in law school. I hosted this tournament in my first semester and I’m now in my last. Funny how things come full circle.
It was quite a bit of work, but I was very happy to see so many people enjoy the finished project. I do intend to one day host another competition, as it seems like I am better at hosting rather than being a competitor. That probably won’t be until after I take the Bar Exam in July, but it is on my radar. I have to get acclimated to the newest versions of the game, first.
I’m glad you enjoyed all of the innuendos I created. I guess I read into something that wasn’t quite there, but if y’all enjoyed it, I’m glad.
That makes sense. I can imagine law school demands quite a lot of attention, if you want to succeed.
I’ll definitely participate, if you host another challenge, provided that I’m active on the forum, of course. I run a small startup, so my sparetime changes a lot…
This really was designed to be a working man’s truck. Lots of early torque to help with towing, great utility and practicality, reasonable price tag and low running costs, comparatively speaking. Also, a safety stat of 56 is not bad by any means. If you have a frontal accident with, say, a Vauxhall Astra you will certainly be coming out on top because this truck has a long nose and a big V8 for absorbing the crash before you get hurt.
… next time it will include stop motion of a clay-model of the second place with an special apperance of Jason from Engineering Explained and his white board 
Seriously, great work!
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anyhow,just keep ur priorities right, this is just a game.