You receive some mail… Are they the taxes?
To you
Congratulations! You have successfully passed the first rounds of the selection process, and have moved onto the in-person evaluation.
For this next stage, we have sent you a package containing a parts bin, a Polaroid camera, and a complimentary IED.
You will then design your car with the parts supplied, take some photographs of the design, and then send it to our headquarters in Curacao, which will then be evaluated by our design department.
Failure to do so within one month will result in the detonation of the complimentary IED, though shipping costs will be fully reimbursed.
Successful entrants will be provided a fully reimbursed round trip to our headquarters in Curacao for in-person interviews. We thank you for your time, and expect a submission back within the month.
From
Johnny Di BetterDeals,
CEO of BetterDeals
Welcome to CSC63!
SUMMARY
As part of the hiring process, you are designing a car for evaluation by the BetterDeals design department. The car is meant to be directed to restaurant owners. The best entrants will be hired onto the design department, complete with high starting salaries and benefits.
- The entrants are designers who have passed the first stages of the hiring process.
- The designs are a way for BetterDeals to evaluate the skills and creativity of each designer, and see who finally gets hired on as a BetterDeals designer.
CONTEXT
BetterDeals is primarily a company that tries to find weird and unique solutions to problems, that maybe don’t even need them. Sometimes the problems barely exist. One could say they are a joke.
Creativity and weirdness are the name of the game.
At this point, BetterDeals is well known for their… Lets say questionable designs.
RULES
ENGINEERING WILL NOT BE JUDGED!
The “Model” and “Trim” Year must be set to 1980.
The wheelbase can not be longer than 2.6m.
Usage of Advanced Trim on the wheelbase is not allowed, unless very minor.
Needs headlight, taillights, and indicators, if meant to be road legal.
At least one person should be able to fit inside of the car.
At least four wheels must be present on the car. Their arrangement is up to you.
Only 1 entry per person!
PRIORITIES
Before we start with the actual priorities, it is important to state a few things.
The car is meant to be directed at restaurant owners.
The cars will be rated like they are being reviewed by restaurant owners.
Keep this heavily in mind. Consider how useful they are for them.
Make sure to remember that Restaurant Owners need cars for a lot, such as delivery, transport, possibly cooking, and many other things. Think about it before you make a car, I would say.
Functionality
The design must be functional above all else.
This will be judged by how functional it looks. For example, being able to transport lots of food is considered functional.
This will be judged separately per car. If your solution to a problem works really well, you’ll do better than if someone else’s solution to a problem doesn’t work.
NOTE: It is important to come up with your own solutions to problems, no matter how radical or unnecessary they may seem! This will always be reviewed better than something super conventional and generic.
Compactness
There’s no restriction on length, width, and height (apart from wheelbase), but it is encouraged for the designs to be as space-efficient as possible.
For example, being able to transport more food is better. Of course, being able to transport more people is useful too.
Originality
Try to be as original as you can be. It is heavily recommended to take a look at the “inspirations” and “previous cars” at the end of the post though.
Try to come up with your own weird or creative solutions to problems.
Beauty
As the name of the post says, this is all about how functional it looks, not if it actually looks any good. But if you can manage to make something that is both, that’ll be a bonus.
NOTE: 3D fixture cars are not at all a requirement!!!
SUBMISSIONS
The deadline of this challenge is the 3rd of March, whatever time.
Model: CSC63 - Username
Trim, Engine Family, Engine Variant - free
State what your design’s primary function is in the submission post, or Discord DM.
Make sure to say how it works if that is unclear as well.
NOTE: Entries from Discord are allowed as well!
My Discord username is Djadania, if you would like to send there.
PREVIOUS CARS
A small scale truck with enough space to walk around in.
Car with an engine on the side for extra interior space in the front and back.
A sports car made from parts from other cars to save production costs.
An extremely small FWD race car to save weight.
The infamous HPD. As simple as it gets.
A tiny Le Mans car to save fuel.
An MPV built to be a cube to save space.
Land Speed Record car with an extremely weak engine to be cheap.
Nuclear powered car with an extra ICE engine in the back.
INSPIRATIONS
Delivery van built to last as long and haul as much as possible.
No need for 2 seats in a Terminal Truck.
A funny looking food “truck”.
Interesting looking delivery thing.
The restaurant needs to be kept clean, no?
A restaurant on wheels! One wonders if it’s comfy or not.
If you can’t carry it, tow it! Not counting as wheelbase.
Why not just heat food up with the engine?
Why not deliver over water instead?
Oh god… What is that?
You can try putting food on the other side of the car too!
