Random garage in California
10am
“Hey Jason! I heard you were looking to get a bigger car?” remarked the mechanic as Jason parked his Kaizen FC22 in the garage.
“Hi Thomas,” responded Jason. “I am indeed in the market for a new car? I thought I would stop by for your opinions.”
“Sure thing!”
“You know the story of Blue Star right? Well, after a short-seller released a very damaging report on his company, the feds did an investigation on their own and have just charged the founder with securities fraud. The SEC also filed its own civil charges against him too. Blue Star had a promise of building a more sustainable and affordable “luxury car” for the future, whatever that is. Anyways, what the government alleges is that he deliberately misled investors into believing that their first car, the Blue Star 111, was entering production soon when he knew well that the project had barely made any progress past the brainstorming stage. In addition, the several prototypes he exhibited at the major auto shows to prove his progress was discovered to be merely “show cars,” barely functional and cobbled from donor cars with a smattering of parts. For example, they had two salvaged Suzuki 1.1L motorcycle engines welded together and jury-rigged to a single-overhead-cam valvetrain and two turbochargers just for the sake of it, and a junk 4-speed manual transmission that didn’t even work. Anyways, once the investors, many of who had no prior trading experience, knew of the disaster that befell them, it was too late. Some of them claim that they lost entire retirement savings because of this scheme.”
“oh dear…”
Note
“it turned out to be a titanic job for him”
Get the “titanic job” of submitting a proper car to CSR done right, and then we can talk.
But you got the “titanic job” of making such a bad car done so right, so nice job I guess?
This car was so bad that I could not justify it existing in the actual marketplace, and thus had to create a special dishonorable mention post for this. I honestly don’t even know where to start from this, as all of the fundamental components were just done wrong…for example, all steel body on frame construction, overly stiff suspension, and cheap corner-cutting in areas like brakes and safety. But what really drove me crazy was the engine…a 2.2L SOHC 32 valve 60 degree V8, bolted to two turbochargers, and running a super leaned out 86 AKI air-fuel mixture. Output? 128.3 hp and 134.8 lbft. Oh and it cuts off at 5k RPM cause the creator felt like it.
bruh
next section coming asap
Auxio AQ500 by @Aaron.W (the black car)