This German supercar breaks the mold of what you think a German car should have: a whole lot of engineering issues that they took their sweet time engineering.
[Binned for over Chassis ET by 13.4]
Sometimes life comes at you with difficult questions. Other times, it asks if you want to spend 50 grand on an oversteering uncomfortable deathtrap.
Depending on who you are you may say yes please but Jakob was not that kind of man.
@Aaron.W - Tanaka X4 Street
Nice looking car, but definitely has a lot of the group B dna still in it, as it is not exactly the best roadcar. The weird tire sizes don’t help either, do they need to be ordered over from Japan?
@yangx2 - Hirasawa 455R Longtail
The Hirasawa was much like the Tanaka before it, with a real racy design and engineering. But it is a fair bit faster also and doesn’t have as many uncommon parts so its worth taking a further look at.
Jakob added the 455R Longtail to his consideration list.
The Rolland 4400 Roadsport was a nice looking coupe that unfortunately is in a field that costs more and thus outguns it by quite a bit. Also its a bit too tail-happy for Jakob’s tastes.
Using the same base Farox engine as the Rolland, though tuned up a bit with .2l higher displacement, the RJM looks to provide a very solid car for a low price tag. A bit low on safety equipment however but it is workable for Jakob’s purposes.
The RJM was added to the consideration list.
The following has made it passed this round of the bin:
@yangx2
@titleguy1
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Judging Part 3.5
Seeing as he now had a considerably large list of cars to consider, it was time to get some test drives…
There was of course, no way he was going to get all 15 high end cars to test drive in any reasonable amount of time. The list was going to have to be cut down to size.
This of course, was no easy feat, each car was picked for one reason or the other. So, he had to sort the cars out in a logical way. Simplest one was by price point, to take out anything that simply wasn’t worth it, and thus will be left with the strongest cars with the best value.
For the ‘cheapest bunch’, all hovering around 60k or under, was the RJM, the Sendo, the Gallagher and the Voltari. The Voltari was definitely the fastest of the four, with the RJM just behind. That said, despite being the cheapest of the four, the RJM was also the best equipped of the four cars, matched by the Gallagher. Really, the only downside the the RJM compared to the rest was its below average safety equipment… It wasn’t an easy thing to do, but it meant the Sendo, Gallagher and the Voltari were eliminated.
Next was the 70 grand gang, with the Turbol, the Imola, the Zephorous and the Arion. Comparing the four like this, both the Imola and Arion were slightly weak compared to the packages the Turbol and Zephorous gave. The Zephorous was the strongest of this group on paper, while also being the second most expensive, but with the Turbol being the cheapest and still very capable, Jakob decided to keep both on the list for now.
The fastest group was next, with the Howler, the Morton, the Hirasawa and the Nazzaro. All priced around 80 grand, the Morton was immediately the outlier, being the least powerful and the slowest of the group. The other one was the Howler, though comparing it to the other cars it was a bit suspect. Could he really trust the numbers it was putting out, especially with how fast the other cars with automatics go? Jakob decided he’d rather take something he could trust than a performance wildcard .
Either way, that left the Nazzaro and Hirasawa, which all in all were very similar cars in the end, though from different origins and thus different approaches to roughly the same solution. Ultimately, Jakob preferred the Nazzaro’s approach, with a big V12 rather than the turbo V8 in the Hirasawa. That and it simply was faster.
Last group was the roughly 90 grand group, consisting of the Galera, MAHG and LCE. The MAHG with the aforemention understeering tendencies was the first to go, as that did not suit Jakob’s driving. The Gelera and the LCE were similar in many ways, but the LCE seemed to be more worth it with the V12 and AWD system.
The final five remaining now was:
1987 RJM 55-8R GT
1988 Turból F4
1982 Zephorus Kigore V12 S Touring
1988 Nazzaro Tempest
1988 LCE LP12 AWD Concept
Jakob then made a call, arranging for one of each of the cars to be available for a test drive.
. Not surprised that monstrosity didn’t make it on looks - even I didn’t like it! The longitudinal mid-mounted boxer 6 twin turbo was also a bit out in left field 
