Car of the year 1996

Community Challenges & Competitions
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1996 Mid Size car of the year

It’s that time of year, for this one you will need to submit three trim levels of your car to be tested as the car of the year.

I need to see your car in

  1. Base Trim

  2. Performance Trim

  3. Luxury Trim

Common Rules

Across all trims
name scheme CTY1996 - (Username) trim name free name plus SE , GT / SS / TA, LX for example *

All trims must meet WES 8 or better*

All Cars must be based on same chassis but can be facelifted and rebadged as upper class company (Example Nissan / Infiniti - Toyota/ Lexus - Honda/Acura - Ford/Lincoln Dodge/Chrysler)

Tech pool is 50M and cant be adjusted between cars
No negative quality or Tech pool (if NA you can set turbo to 0)

2.5 to 3.0 wheel base*

Must be road legal (mirrors, fuel door, wiper, etc.)

Advanced settings allow within reason

Cars must have different colours between trims
variations are encouraged to have features to set them apart from other models (Grill, tail lights, rims, ETC)

Interiors are not required make up a max of 2 points, one point for just putting seats and dash in the car to show an effort
These are road cars, not special trim versions that say the name but are low key race cars.

No race parts / race tyres

Keep it era correct as you can

troll entries will be trolled not not binned so long as they meet the requirements to enter

Base Model Rules

20,000 max price*
Max loudness of 40
91 Ron fuel only
Hard tyres

Performance Model Rules

35,000 max price*
Max loudness of 45
95Ron max
Sport tyres or medium

Luxury Model Rules

45,000 max price*
max loudness of 35
95ron max
Medium or hard tyres

Deliberations
2024-11-24T05:00:00Z→2024-11-29T05:00:00Z

All right tear my plan apart and help me put it back together.

Scoring

across all trims

Realism
Service cost
Reliably
Looks

Base
5 Star
fuel economy
drivability
4 Star
practicality
3 Star
performance
safety
2 Star
comfort
1 Star
prestige

Performance
5Star
sportiness
power to weight
4 Star
drivability
looks
3 Star
safety
practicality
2 Star
prestige
Fuel economy

Lux
5 Star
comfort
prestige
4 Star
drivability
looks
3 Star
Safety
Economy
2 Star
Practicality
Performance

Will include examples before the event starts

Competition
2024-12-01T05:00:00Z→2024-12-31T05:00:00Z

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So 1 model for 3 trims? And must we use the same engine family throughout?

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Yes 1 model , 3 trims.
The engine can be differnt in each car.
@abg7 sorry i keep clicking the red reply button insted of the arrow haha

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This one brings to mind the second season of Themed Car Challenge, but with all three trims being launched in the same year (1996), and the option of using multiple engine families for the whole range, whereas TCCS2 required four trims to be released in consecutive years (1995 through to 1998) and with a single engine family shared between all of them.

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that seems fun too, updating and face lifting the same car. :thinking:

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How to name each car? Im talking about model names. Coty Base - Username etc?

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name scheme CTY1996 - (Username) trim name free name plus SE, GT ,LX.

Good point that was an oversight SE base, GT performance, LX for luxury

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Why have set model names? Why not let people name their trims how they see fit?

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Agree i ment more for example. I updated it, but im currently running my family around, and my service is spotty at best. #kentucky

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Is the wheelbase as is or rounded? So is 2.74 m ok or does it has to be exactly 2.7 or under?

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Rounded

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Wheelbase range should be wider, up to 2.85 at bare minimum, better 3.0 or soft limits altogether. BMW E34 (2.76) and E39 (2.83), Mercedes W124 sedan (2.79) and W210 (2.832), Toyota Aristo/Lexus GS (2.779), and Ford Taurus (2.756) are just a few mid-sizers that the range wouldn’t allow.

Luxury should be way more than 25k, and allow sport tires.

The budgets are all too low, for that matter. In the campaign, in 1996 in all markets averaged out, Family car budget is $17700, Family Sport Premium 40200, and Luxury 69200.

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Sport maybe should allow semislicks?

Must they be the same body, or can they be, for example, a base-model hatchback, a sport coupe, and a luxury sedan?

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I don’t like how the wheelbase restriction is so restricting

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I’m fine with the wheelbases tbh, 2.5-2.7m rounded is right in mid-size for the mid-90’s to me. I know I’m not American, but for the time anything more than that is more akin to a full-size car to me (hell, the Commodore of the day is 2.73m and that’s full-size according to Wikipedia, so).

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I think overall footprint is a better determinant of size class than wheelbase alone. I updated my previous post with several examples, only one of them American, of midsizers that fall outside the range.

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Alright I made a few adjustments on price still cheaper than the game suggest but its based of a family car so i think it fits the scene better. 20K-35K-45K and adjusted the chassis size to fit mid-full size cars (plus it opens up more bodies so everyone are not fighting over the same 3 models)

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Sounds good. What about the bodies; do they need to be the same, or are variations within the same model ok?

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variations are fine. just shared platform is the main constraint.

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Any limits on emissions?

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good looking out, I may have forgotten about emissions. WES 8 is the global standard in game for 96 less in a few countries but since this is a car of the year and not a Gasmias best challenge we’ll do WES 8 haha