ARM38: Life’s Little Luxuries
Previous round: ARM37
What is ARM?
The Client
Carl is 36 years old and lives with his wife in Woking, Surrey. He is a fan of retro vehicles from the early 80’s up to the mid 90’s. Kind of the heydey of what were your boring run of the mill cars when Carl was a lad. His wife, Mandy however doesn’t understand this at all and much prefers modern cars with all of the amenities and safety that buying something built in the current century actually provides.
The subject of this ARM is a car he has currently owned for about five years now, but even though it is a high range model for the time it really isn’t what you would call a “premium” vehicle.
With this in mind the challenge in this ARM is to modify the car into a more upmarket vehicle that satisfies both what Carl and Mandy want.
Carl wants:
- The looks of the base car kept as much as possible, he much prefers the retro aesthetic to modern designs.
- Bright and interesting colours of 80’s and 90’s cars instead of the sea of monochrome in anything from the 2000’s and onwards.
- He isn’t a fan of the minimalism of modern cars and the ipad on the dash look of the screens.
- Will be using the car as a daily driver in summer and taking it to shows, so will need to not be a complete pig to drive.
Mandy wants:
- She much prefers the reliability and ease of drive of a new modern car to the hassle of something from 40 years ago.
- Safety of a new car, older cars are just inherently less safe by there very design.
- Mandy actually really loves the uncluttered look of new cars.
- Probably won’t be driving the car much as it is Carl’s car but doesn’t want to be sitting in a stripped out cardboard box.
For more info three questions are allowed to be asked in a direct message. These are private unless you really want the results public, it’s up to you.
The Car
The car for this round is another fictional Automation brand. It is the Knightwick Cosmopolitan classic. In its day this was the upmarket model in the Cosmopolitan range, the classic sedan body style only being available with the larger 1275cc engine.
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Priorities
- Design and coherence.
- Drivability
- Comfort
- Prestige
- Reliability
- Fuel economy
- Safety
- Cost for purchase and service
The Rules
- Use the stable branch of the game.
- Clone both the imported model and engine family before you start modding. Nowadays this can all be done with one button of the Car Designer tab in Automation - this is circled red in the photo below
- Set all the dates to 2020.
- chassis type and material must be left as it is.
- engine must stay front transverse layout and front wheel drive.
- No race parts or semi-slick tyres
- No V16’s ( i mean, why would you?)
- Default of +5 techpool everywhere
- Use premium 95 Ron unleaded fuel.
- Keep the supplied body type.
- Maximum cost of $25,000
Price Penalties
- Panel material swap is $1500
- Engine swap $2000
- Engine head only swap $1000
- Transmission swap is $1000, however a standard auto with any amount of gears is free.
- Suspension type change is $1000 per axle
Submissions
- trim and variant should be named “ARM38 - yourname”
- Round rules up till July 31 2025
- Round open from August 1 till August 31 2025
Inspirations of sorts
Changelog
- Updated the car model to add the steering wheel and pedals
- Added some more info to “the client” section
- Questions are in “the client” section now too.
- Added suspension change to price list too
