Backstory
Three months ago, Kontir Texas dealership
It is relatively enjoyable day in Kontir Texas dealership and James Beer was going through work routine.
Phone rang at his table, and he answered
James: Hello, Mr. Beer from Kontir Texas, how can i help you?
Other side: We have an idea of getting a fleet of offroad-capable cars. Some additions that would improve their capability out of beaten path would be very welcome. And since someone informed me that you happen to be interested in that kinda stuff, we thought to get in touch.
James: Well, you are on right place. How big said fleet needs to be?
Other side: We are thinking ten would be a nice number. But, more could be sorted out if really needed.
James: Any other requirements?
Other side: Well, it needs to be 5-door, able to fit 5 people nicely, be modern vehicle with 4WD, manual locker and offroad tires. However, we do not require it to be particularly massive: we have lot of experience with 1992 Cunningham we bought there and we know that is way too big.
James: Loyal customer, eh? How did it serve you? Do you still own it after 22 full years?
Other side: chuckles We bought it for purpose of participating in Shitbox Rally 2022.
James: Oh
Wait
I presume you are my boss in a sense?
Other side: You presume somewhat correctly. Not exactly a direct boss, but i do manage couple of companies in our corporation.
James: Not my fault VerBanka was never interested in off-roaders.
Andrea Chicota: Yeah, she wasnt into cars at all. I could name some off-roaders that technically could be seen as my competition, but they are either too old or not oriented enough towards going off the road. Or atleast, thats what i think.
Also, Rosanda wasnt much of car enthusiast either.
James: Ah, true. So…i will see what we can do and will get in touch. Will need some more time.
Unspecified time later, in unspecified place
James is now looking at stuff related to task at hand. Certain advertisement attracted his attention
**Successful game dev company looking for offroad vehicle models for their next game
Producers of “Nitro Nights” have been busy in last six months. After enjoying great success on aforementioned game, they are working on survival time-travel driving game. Its called “Back To Reality” and is set in near future. Our sources are not fully sure, but it seems that they are looking for good offroad vehicles…
James: Tempted to contact them…
Hello?
Oh its you, Andrea…
Andrea: So, what is the progress on our offroaders like?
James: I think someone sent me some information about it…lemme send you that.
He, in fact, sent the wrong thing
Andrea: While the premise of this “Back To Reality” is intriguing, it wasnt what i was looking for
James: tries to maintain composure Wrong…file…
I was thinking that we could try to enter the competition for that.
Andrea: Hmmm, i guess you could try. Not convinced that your more direct bosses would appreciate your enthusiasm.
James: They require very similar things as you lot do. So, we might just work around these features that should be implemented for them.
Andrea: sigh I guess that would work.
Yup, it would work.
James: Many thanks on opportunity.
**Present day, Kontir Texas dealership
For all the enthusiasm James Beer had in regards to this project, his colleagues and some doubts he had in himself resulted in work of very sporadic nature. Not to mention guy who welded containment for Power Object happened to have very questionable qualifications regarding welding.
Result ended up being…this.
2025 Kontir Lamar
Roof has:
- Yakima SkyBox 18 skibox: internal length up to 215 cm, has capacity of 510 liters
- Power Object
- Two E-MaxTrac 4S traction boards, flanking Power Object on each side
Trunk area has:
- two spare tires
- required supplies
- two toolboxes
- one spare transmission
Car itself has some features helping it go off beaten path:
- winch in the front
- two recovery hooks in both front and rear
- tow hook, in case towing a trailer would benefit the character
- nudge bar
- snorkeling
- raised exhaust so it can dive deeper without waterlocking itself
- wheels and tires comparable to that one competitor that uses horse-derived legacy name to great extent and adds mythical being to its name to denote especially capable version