Introducing Cossack Autos, with their “Vorsprung durch Preis”. The idea is that in its early years it’s cheap to the point of crappiness, and later, they still value budget costs, but try to be good for budget cars.
Here is the 1993 Cossack C series, sportish liftback, that can make young person drive enjoyably without ruining their wallet with car and fuel costs.
2009, the new generation of Cossack M series has been released. M series is the most important model in Cossack Autos - It’s the one that CA sells the most and commercial failure of this one could severe its finances horribly.
In the same year, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Ataman fouding (Ataman is the supersports brand of Cossack Autos), the very short serie of Cossack M - the Cossack M Ataman Concept - was released, topping at 401 cars - 1 for each horsepower the original Ataman generated. Powered by a twin turbo 2.0 V8 somehow squished into the car, it generates 298 HP.
And here is an unrelated design, a late 90’s compact sedan, with more effort spent on making it practical than on making it look revolutionary. 1998 Compact Sedan Vanilla.lua (17.5 KB) 1998 Compact Sedan.lua (17.4 KB)
One of them it THE original Ataman. The Ur-Ataman. Officially, it’s known as Ataman 400, from it’s 400 HP (more accurately, 401). It was 1989 and it was the Cossack Autos entry onto the supercars market, lauched under separate brand because of main reputation being a bit low. It’s powered by 4.0 twin turbo V8, which featured MPFI (Cossack Autos is ahead of the time a bit. It just uses its Techniks to lower the Preis usually), but none of that weight saving bullshit. Cast Iron is cheaper.
OK, let’s undig this one, because I’ve got a new design for ya.
The Cossack brand is mostly known for boring, extremely cheapboxes with no power at all (alternatively, sporty ubercheap chav-mobiles with enough power not to embarass you in front of your friends). They’ve started using Transverse FWD in late 60s already, because “it’s so cheap”. But, the Cossack company is full of contrasts. When they want to go badass, they do. They take those boring FWD platforms and transform them into hottest boxes humanity has ever seen, while still being cheap, all under the brand of Cossack Tuning Experts, CTE in short. One of the earliest examples of a CTE is 1981 Cossack 2200 CTE (will probably be CTE 2200 in actual game, as I’ll make CTE a separate brand). Based on their main line of boring ecoboxes, it’s the hottest hot hatch of the 80’s. It features a 2.2 Twin Turbo V8 (I6 could not fit in) squished into the transverse engine bay, generating 220 hp, powering front wheels, which is pure awesomeness, or madness, depending on how you call it. Interior has almost only the basic necessities (we at Cossack say it’s to save weight (and money), even though its engine is fully cast iron), but truth to be told, normal Cossacks have almost only the basic necessities as well. The 0-100 acceleration is 7 seconds (game gives 6 seconds, but it assumes modern tires and drivetrain), very good for its time, even if you don’t take it being FWD into account (the first real world FWD car to break 7 seconds barrier is the Corrado, introduced seven years later).
Also, top speed given by game is 225 km/h, but it’ll be less considering more lossy drivetrain. Still should break the 200 km/h barrier. Due to that, I can’t give an accurate 0-200 time, even though game gives 24.90 s.
OK, here you go! The original, 1946 Cossack 1000! 680 kg of weight! 35 hp of power! 0-100 time of 26.7 s! 121.7 km/h of top speed! And, on top of that amazing performance, it’s cheap!
Anyways, here’s my another design. In my vision, it’s NOT a Cossack model, as Cossack competes with such coupes with hot hatch line. This, is its unnamed 80s competitor.