The start
The story simply starts at 1889, somewhere in Europe, with the two folks, Mr Frank Carsten and Fredrick Berg merge their coach building occupation to a larger capacity, which came to be Carsten Berg coaches. Later by 1902, they shifted focus to make perfumes, purchasing large gardens and laboratories and shortening the name to CBC but soon it proved a tough market.
The change to automobile industry.
Selling the gardens and labs at a loss, they lost most of their possession and work force, only having the original coach building sight. Berg inspired by the new mass production line in his visits to US, proposed the shift to motorized coaches, which started as a small, case built production line with engines bought by the customer itself. But the production grew fast and by 1914 the production line proved decent enough to help with some government deals (trucks and large chassis bases).
Before 1938
1920s was hard for most industries in the region at first but traction was there, which gave room for more expansion, now producing their own engines, and their own models.
Mk3(1921): An enclosed chassis meant for mass production, It was crude but decent in production.
MK4 - MK11(1922-1936): Improvements on the same chassis most of the time, making the body and engine improve over time with better technology and features, by Mk8 models, they were more premium and higher end than their original crude and functional models.
Model Alpha(1924): Their first attempt at a sport chassis, it was meant for hill climb competitions with a straight 5 engine, it performed poorly but managed to finish not last.
Model Beta (1932): Based on the corresponding chassis, MK10, stripped of all its luxuries and mounted another big engine, now a V10, it yielded better results, earning the company some very much needed prestige.
Other projects they held was some aviation exploration, designing some air craft chassis based on license built DH Moth and etc, using their own engines.
The not so great years (1939-1945)
While most of their works during this time is unclear, the company did create some original models with what resources they had left, starting the design segment for Mk12, and their best work, the project named “Cetta” but later took the name “Nasim” (Soft wind in Persian). Both models remained on paper until the end of the chaos of the world.
What didn’t remain on paper was their industry being pushed to build licensed Inline 6 engines (for light trucks and jeep like cars) and a V12 aviation engine which later was fit to the Nasim chassis.
Recovery (1945 - now)
As the chaos died down, CBC was fast to push Mk12 and later, Nasim for production, while Mk12 moved masses, Nasim was meant to rebuild the prestige once more.
By Mk13 model came to view, after a fear of sale loss due to superstition, the chassis took the name “Quest”.
- Model names and their general purpose
Carrier: Inspired by the piegion message carriers, the light sports car took the name Carrier. They are small, nimble and a middle class hero for CBC’s sport car selections.
Cruiser: This model, meant for Grand touring purposes, is a coupe, usually based either on Carrier or Quest models meant to be comfortable and reliable for long distance drives.
Diva: The utility model, made originally for the military contracts, but sticking around as a fun off-roader and general purpose vehicle.
Fresh born: was meant to be the cheapest way to have a car withi a lot of power, filling mostly the muscle car and pony car demands for the company.
Nasim: The top of the top, the halo car and later super car of the CBC, it became a major money sink for CBC for major fails and such, but none the less, it gave the illusion of prestige.
Outsider: Originally a Quest pickup version, it evolved to earn it’s own chassis due to popular demand. It’s just a light pickup meant for farmers and towing.
Quest: The bloodline of CBC, it’s the car they produce the most, and sell hundreds of thousands… It comes in. All shapes it can, Wagon, coupe, limo and etc and has been the money maker for CBC for the longest time.
Tanner: The entery level car for CBC, it came to be a smaller Quest due to popular demand for a small city car for less fortunate. Mostly sold as a hatchback, but it also comes in compact sedan form.
Honorable mentions:
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Demon Baby!
A special package for Fresh born series cars, it holds the biggest engine package for the model, usually tuned to make more power. -
Utility models not mentioned
While CBC focuses on its main automotive production, it has sub companies that make Vans and heavy industrial trucks under CBC name. -
Fierce Company
The export focused company, to reduce tax and shipping fees by local production, it was heavily implemented in the west during 60s. -
Package defaults
All models follow the similar naming scheme, NX being base models, SX being Sport and LX being luxury models.
Engines usually use a latin name for number of cylinders and it’s format, for example “FlatHex-18TTV” -
Aviation and military contracts
Surviving two of the major events in the thick of it, a defensive focused department established itself within the company, making modern aviation models as trainers and cargo focused as well as MBT, IFV and etc… -
JX models
Often outsourcing certain gaps in the market to Jyznyr tuning company, the JX models came to be a rare and highly sought after models for CBC community.
(Pictures will be added later, I was ony phone and bored, so thought I do lore.)