By 1975, the British company Cambridge found itself quite behind in the supermini category that was selling successfully throughout Europe. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the funds to engineer a whole new car, forcing them to use a shortened variant of their compact Kobold line. Christened the Mite, it was available with 1.0 and 1.3 litre engines and proved to be a least a profitable stop gap.
For 1979, they decided to produce a spicier model by using the world’s biggest shoehorn to stuff the 1.6L under the bonnet. Coupled with a slew of suspension enhancements, the Mite HS was born.
The OHV inline four makes 89 horsepower and 90 pound feet of torque. This allows the featherweight hatchback to reach naught to sixty in 9.1 seconds and a maximum top speed of 129 mph.
Submissions are now closed! We have 25 competitors and only 1 disqualification, which has to be a record of some kind. At least for my competitions, anyway.
In 1 hour from now, I will stream the first race on my youtube channel, and I’ll link the stream here once I go live. The first race will take place at the Industrial Site Curved Race Circuit.
ImkaeR looks to be comfortably in the lead, but both the Armor and the Wells Juliet beat it on the first track so there is still potential for lots of movement in the top ranks.
The next race will be held on Saturday, 2nd of October at 6pm CEST.
Really surprised he thought my car looked Mercedes-ish, since that was nowhere near its inspiration material. Still, 5 points for styling is better than I expected for a car that I cobbled together with limited time and didn’t expect to be competitive whatsoever.
I might recommend to you to set direct limit steering at speed filters at 37 kph to 67 kph. it’s help less front brake lock, and improve cornering grip. (and stabilize at high speed.)
After analyze my car why that itsn’t in 10th or highter. I found out is that exit cornering is flaw. That car use open differential is indeed problem but that much worst that i though. Suspension is too high cause roll high and side of wheel ship too much.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. After having a talk with him and him admitting that he didn’t ask you for permission, I decided that rather than simply disqualifying him I should give the car a generic and unoriginal name as a form or punishment. The car will now simply be known as the OCC Costco V12. I re-exported the car to BeamNG already, so it will be called that on video as well, and on the spreadsheet too.
The second race is over and we had an unexpected winner, I think that’s fair to say! The first little bit had technical issues but I was able to resolve them, the rest should be fine. Although I forgot to place the chat overlay on top of the game after the old Top Gear clip so no more stream chat in the video from that point on my mistake, I fixed it after the stream so it’ll be back for the next one.
With another solid 2nd place, the Armor is now leading overall, just 1 point ahead of the Economo. I think the overall winner is gonna be one of these two, since the Automation Handling Circuit is kind of similar to the Industrial Site track that we had previously with it being very tight and technical, and they have a reasonably big lead over the rest of the field. But it’s not over until it’s over!
It was a lot of fun being there for the live show. I don’t normally watch livestreams (for a reason, seeing as I had to use the bathroom and missed a whole lot of interesting content), but I might have to keep an eye out for more of these challenges in the future.
Watching the races is as much, if not more, fun than building the car itself.
Now we’ve had 3 different winners on the 3 tracks, another car that took 10 points for styling and yet another car that was the most economical. But the most consistent out of all of them was the Armor Highland Turbo, coming 2nd in all 3 races which ended up giving it the overall win! Here are the final standings:
Big kudos also to the Economo, it was by far the most economical car in the competition but still managed to be very competitive in the races, finishing in 2nd overall.
3rd place is a tie between the Bakerfield and the Hennesissy Supahot, with 5th place going to the Wells Juliet.
Well done to the top finishers, especially to @GassTiresandOil for winning. Thanks to everyone who participated, it’s been a blast!
How the heck can my 58 horsepower, 1.6 liter, three-cylinder powered Sinistra not actually finish last on that track? I mean, I understand that handling matters more on the Automation Handling Circuit, but surely I didn’t have it tuned that well. I clicked ‘Normal’ and tweaked the dampers until the game stopped whining that my front/rear dampers are too hard.
Again, far from the best, but at least I did better this time around thanks to a good styling score (although my actual track performance left something to be desired). I wonder what the next round will be about?
my mistake, I fixed it after the stream so it’ll be back for the next one.
