1990s Vinyl Seat Goodness
Background
“We have to make a competitor to the Culgoa, sir! That's our market share that we're loosing!”
The central A/C hums quietly as the senior manager reads over sales numbers of their competitor's newest vehicle.
“I ain't convinced by this, Duke. Take me to the dealership and I'll see for m'self, surely it ain't that great,” He grumbled.
“Why do you need confirmation for a guaranteed success?!” Duke’s face scrunched up. “Think of it, a new luxury vehicle from us! The magnum opus of the car world! People're gonna flock to our dealers and buy 'em up! With our management, its bound t' happen!”
“God dammit... it ain't happenin' with our design team right now, if we even have one after how bad Jackman fucked us up after that supposed "deal".
“Look man, even GMC is havin' a kick from selling premium trucks, even though they're rebadged upscale Chevys. If we can't design something, even from another team if they design it, then we'd might as well dig our own grave right about now.”
The manager would sigh heavily.
“Where’s that passion of leadership and innovation that we need, huh? You know that the luxury sedan, especially if we make a new millenium-esque design like Ford did with the Taurus is gonna get
a shock and everybody'll want one. We'll get the boys from lower down in the company chain to share the platform in the future maybe.”
The manager leans forward and lights a cigarette. "Maybe, but that's a huge risk. Ford got lucky, and that thing about sharing the platform if it sells? I personally don't think so, we shouldn't stoop as low as GM. But, good idea. I'll consider it, and if it don't work, yer gettin' booted off the team, y'hear?”
“Thank you, Mr. Kessler!” Duke nodded. “I’m betin' a twenty that you'll be bowin' down to however designed our car in a year’s time!”
Background
“We have to make a competitor to the Culgoa, sir! That's our market share that we're loosing!”
The central A/C hums quietly as the senior manager reads over sales numbers of their competitor's newest vehicle.
“I ain't convinced by this, Duke. Take me to the dealership and I'll see for m'self, surely it ain't that great,” He grumbled.
“Why do you need confirmation for a guaranteed success?!” Duke’s face scrunched up. “Think of it, a new luxury vehicle from us! The magnum opus of the car world! People're gonna flock to our dealers and buy 'em up! With our management, its bound t' happen!”
“God dammit... it ain't happenin' with our design team right now, if we even have one after how bad Jackman fucked us up after that supposed "deal".
“Look man, even GMC is havin' a kick from selling premium trucks, even though they're rebadged upscale Chevys. If we can't design something, even from another team if they design it, then we'd might as well dig our own grave right about now.”
The manager would sigh heavily.
“Where’s that passion of leadership and innovation that we need, huh? You know that the luxury sedan, especially if we make a new millenium-esque design like Ford did with the Taurus is gonna get a shock and everybody'll want one. We'll get the boys from lower down in the company chain to share the platform in the future maybe.”
The manager leans forward and lights a cigarette. "Maybe, but that's a huge risk. Ford got lucky, and that thing about sharing the platform if it sells? I personally don't think so, we shouldn't stoop as low as GM. But, good idea. I'll consider it, and if it don't work, yer gettin' booted off the team, y'hear?”
“Thank you, Mr. Kessler!” Duke nodded. “I’m betin' a twenty that you'll be bowin' down to however designed our car in a year’s time!”
Welcome to my very first challenge, '90s Vinyl Seat Goodness. Your task will be to design a "new-millenium luxury sedan" for a company in the gutter, named Anniston Motor Works.
The vehicle that you will be designing to compete against will be posted at the bottom of the post so you may have a good baseplate of what to focus on.
You will be submitting one vehicle only, with resubmissions allowed if your vehicle does not meet regulations. (i.e. no turn signals, wipers, mirrors, etc etc)
Rules:
Your boss at your design company has tasked you with creating the design of Anniston's new luxury sedan to release in 1999 or 2000.
General rules:
- Car MUST be in a stable build of Automation.
- No meme entries AT ALL.
- Interiors not required, however seats, a dashboard and wheel will net you some extra points.
- If any rules are broken, this will guarantee an instabin.
Car build rules:
- Body style MUST be sedan as sorted by the game.
- Family/Trim years must be between 1998 and 2000.
- Base model cost must not exceed $41,000.
- No negative quality.
- No race parts at all.
- Car must “look and function” as a normal production car should (headlights, wipers, gas cap, etc).
- Default techpool (all at +5).
- Tires must stay at 0 quality.
- Car must run on unleaded pump gas (unleaded fuel only, octanes no higher than 93 AKI). V10s and V12s are not allowed and using such engine will result in an instabin.
- Luxury.
- Premium.
- Family Premium.
Car Submissions:
- Naming convention:
- Car model: 90VSG - USERNAME
- Car trim: Car name - (ex, Newvehicle Beretta)
- Engine family: Legit anything
- You must post an advertisement of your vehicle. Instabins will be handed out like candy for nobody with an advertisement for their vehicle. (Some sentences and labelled ad pics is fine, no extra points added for a cool ad but you will get bragging rights when the reviews come out)
Design Inspirations
Production Car Submission Deadline: TBD
Production Car Rule Deliberation Deadline: Jan 26th 2025 - Feb 2nd 2025 CST
Jackman_Culgoa_-_Luxury.car (78.7 KB)