Some changes to the rules:
As for including the GT demographic, I made a quick test with a coupe body and managed to get it over 90% in some demographics in less than 10 minutes, so no change there.
Yes, you get a desirability penalty but coupe bodies also have a drag advantage so it’s a trade off.
Why are aluminum panels banned? That’s basically limits us to steel which feels weird IMO.
For production sports sedans from the 70’s? How many were build with aluminium panels
the 3.0CSL (the E9 coupe is one of the inspirations) partially used alu panels in road spec
For homoligation specials its probabaly more common. However can’t honestly comment to much since Im not really educated on as old cars as this.
Where you’ve said wheel/tyre width and diameter can’t be tweaked, does that mean we have to submit the car with stock settings? i.e. if it autoloads on 185mm tyres then that’s what you have to use?
I think he just means in the advanced settings. There is a graph for Max tire width per weight class elsewhere, he’s just saying that you can’t go into advanced settings and make the tires look like something they’re not.
At least that’s how I read it lol
I did some digging on this and I found an FIA page with the original homologation documents.
The Alfa Romeo GTA is the only car with an aluminium body I could find but there might be others.
The BMW 3.0 CSL just says “light metal” on some parts, which I guess could be aluminium.
Important to note though that the 3.0 CSL was homologated in 1973 and the 2800 CS in the inspirations is full steel.
Here’s the database of all Group 2 cars if you’re interested. You should focus on 1970-72 cars, although 73-75 should be fine too.
The language of the documents changes depending on where the car was made, some of them aren’t even consistent. On this one the document is in French but they filled the gaps in Spanish.
Aluminium pannels have been unbanned.
Homologation phase is open.
I will try to check all cars to tell you if something is wrong with your submission, but I’m not making any promises, specially for late submissions.
The Sparrowhawk is an $18,000 four door sports saloon with a 3 litre straight 6 engine with dual overhead cams and mechanical fuel injection. It produces 230 horsepower and 252nm of torque, pushing the car to a top speed of 233kph, it can reach 100kph in just 7.8 seconds with it’s 5 speed manual transmission. The Steel constructed Sparrowhawk still only weighs 1194 kilograms even with it’s high quality interior.
We here at Comanche feel we have built the best possible blend of a practical family car and a raw and ready sports car, and we have already sold over 2000 cars in its first month alone!
The Comanche motor company has a passion for motorsport and are happy to see as many of our cars whip around a track as possible. Teams that achieve a victory with our cars are eligible to receive a Comanche Driver’s certificate of excellence.
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You don’t need to post the .car file for privateers here, I’ll send it to the user(s) myself when the time comes.
Which reminds me, anyone interested in running a private team should tell me so I can start making a list.
I’m interested in running a private team, decent chance I don’t get a car done and styled. Where should people let you know they’re interested? Here, DMs, Discord?
Any of those is fine.
One rules clarification, when you say “leaded 92 RON fuel (or lower)”, does that include unleaded 91 RON? There’s no lower-than-92 leaded, after all.
Leaded 92 RON only. That’s a leftover from an earlier iteration of the rules, I’ll change it.
Still adjusting the stats for this one, but design-wise it’s (mostly) finalised.
1972 Ikeda Lunette 1300SS (standing for Super Saloon), a first-generation model in its coupe two-door sedan guise.
As the name states, it’s got a 1.3 litre twin cam four-cylinder under its hood (measured at exactly 1299cc) putting around 90hp to its rear wheels, but the car measures at just 750kg, which provides decent enough performance (and 90% desirability in Fun).
took inspiration from the Corolla/Familia/Sunny trio as well as the fact that the original Toyota Starlet was a FR coupe rather than a hatchback
This is a lovely idea
I´d like to run a privateer
If anyone is still unsure of what to enter, I bring you pictures from the 1972 ETCC Nurburgring race:
May I take #878 and #952?
