CSR166
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CSR166 - Legends (Enhanced)
2025
What is the reason for working your hours, days, years away at a job, watching the numbers go up bit by bit as you tirelessly slave away most of your life? If it is to survive, one can simply go off the grid, live off the planet with the bare minimum. And some are content with that. But for others of us, its for dreams, goals, ideas ingrained into our very core desires from a young age. Something to work towards, build for, that final step of ‘making it’. And while there were other goals and dreams met along the way, those were more attainable. More useful. More responsible. More ‘grown up’.
With car enthusiasts, the majority of us would say we have a dream car. The one on the bedroom poster. The one in the video game that for whatever reason captured our heart. The one that passed by on the street and burned itself into memory. The toy car that was randomly chosen for you and became an attachment. The one in the movie or show that just looked so damn cool especially under rose tinted glasses.
For Stefán, he could now say he had comfortably reached the stage where he could feasibly get that ‘dream car’. However, years of casually discussing cars, buying ‘attainable’ dream cars, looking them up and seeing them in reviews as he indulged in his interest has also given him a curse. A curse of knowledge. That old cars, the ones he had in his childhood dreams, were flawed and often met with shortcomings in this modern age. Sure, those flaws helped shape their story, their heritage and image, but it was a case of never meeting your heroes. Or at the very least, there was a need to hamper your expectations.
Fortunately for Stefán however, there was people out there with the mechanical knowhow, with dreams just like he had of the cars he desired. Those who understood that their heroes were flawed, but also had the power to make them into the hero we always pictured or even better. That you can in fact meet your hero and enjoy every moment with them.
It just was going to cost a lot.
Short Summary:
Stefán wants a professionally restomodded classic performance car, built off a platform with significance.
The Brief
The client Stefán, is a man who had grown his wealth and has much of his life goals met. He was very much a man of stealth wealth, putting quality and craftsmanship over flashiness and needless gimmicks. His every day needs are met, and thus, the only goal for you here is to fulfill his fantasy of ‘automotive perfection’. A car that is is the one.
As there is many different dreams and fantasies one could take, the broad stoke of it is that he is looking for a specially crafted, restored and rebuilt performance car that could feasibly be used everyday - one that isn’t about showing off with big numbers, big wings and how fast it is, but rather about how how well its constructed and perfected. One with a distinct character and built for the pleasure of driving. And preferably, this car should have the history to for there to have had a connection to form.
While budget is not a concern for him, there is always other factors that are a priority…
The Priorities
Historical Significance
The reason to care about the vehicle in the first place. This can be anything, from motorsports pedigree to cult status and followings to just simple popularity - or infamy. The important thing is that there should be a reason to care about the car and what it is, and most importantly - why its desired.
[Lore - including its glories, failings and reasons for the changes made is recommended. If you need to justify some design decisions, feel free to put them here as well. Original car is not required for submission]
Style and Design Choices
There’s many ways to go about restomodding a classic, Stefán wants the car to not only be visually stunning, but also feel right. The car must look like a classic, but modernized elements and details can also give it that extra bit of flavour that didn’t exist before. However, it isn’t just about what it looks like, but how its operated should make fit with that exterior as well. The car should be updated to keep up with the times or even improved to what it could have been, but not to a point where its simply a new car overloaded with big screens and new technology that dulls and takes away from the characteristics and experience of a classic. Conversely, there is also a reason he isn’t just buying a classic and keeping it all original, there is a balance here.
[Visuals, Component and Part choices (If convertible, convertible type will be included here). I will not judge interiors unless every entry in a given round has them]
Vehicle Dynamics and Engagement
If the car didn’t drive well, what’s the point? He has the money to buy a shell and get a designer to spruce it up so it’ll look nice if he wanted it to be a lawn decoration. Sure, this isn’t expected to be THE daily driver that Stefán has, but its also certainly not going to be a garage queen. If Stefán is going to spend the money for it, it better drive and ride as well as it looks. Stefán also intends to use it primarily on the street with only minor track use.
[Drivability, Sportiness, Comfort, Engine Smoothness / Response, General Tuning, Practicality to a minor extent. Performance figures will only matter to an extent. Convertibles will receive a 1.05x multiplier to stats in this category]
Build Quality and Cost
Stefán is willing to put out the fat stacks for a very high quality product - if he wanted something that was only okay, he wouldn’t be going to a professional outfit and instead would just buy the base car himself so that it can be a project stuck in the garage till his time on this planet is over. The vehicle should be built well, reliable, and finely tuned. At the same time, it should be worth it - just because the budget isn’t limited doesn’t mean the costs can’t go out of control and reach far into depreciating returns. Where is that limit? Stefán will see how all of the competition stacks up.
[Quality use, Reliability, Safety, Price (minor) - relative to competition, Service Costs (minor) - relative to competition, Fuel Economy (minor) - relative to competition]
Build Time to Delivery
Stefán understands that a quality product takes time to be built, especially a bespoke creation like the one he is looking for. But every project needs to be delivered eventually, even if he is willing to wait a couple of years.
[Build time in months will be calculated as:
Quirks
There’s always that one thing - that one special thing that made a car weird, interesting, or remarkable that could just tilt the decision over.
[Something unique about the car, rather if it’s from the base car or something the shop has done. Don’t go overboard however, if it is to the detriment to the priorities above it might not be worth it!]
The Rules
Game Version: STABLE
Model: Between 1951 and 1990
Trim: 2020
Family: Between 1951 and 2020
Variant: 2020
Car Model & Family Name: CSR166 - [USERNAME]
Car Engine & Trim Name: Free
Body Styles: No Legacy Bodies/ Meme Bodies. Convertibles will receive a 1.05x multiplier for Drivability, Sportiness and Comfort stats.
Interiors: Not needed - will only be judged if every entry in the round has one.
ATS Settings: Within reason. Ask if you need to!
Minimum Doors: 2
Minimum Seats: 2 Full sized
Tyres: Non-race radial ending in 5
Emission Standard: WES11
Max Loudness:
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with Exhaust Bypass Valves: 75
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without Exhaust Bypass Valves: 55
Fuel type: Unleaded Super 98 RON or Ultimate 100 RON
Budget, Techpool and Quality:
Maximum Budget: Unlimited
Maximum Techpool: 30M Total Max
- No negative techpool, negative quality is allowed but not recommended
Lore
- Due to the nature of Automation, I do not know the lore of the vehicle you have built nor where to find it. As such, you must provide historic context and lore of your vehicle otherwise it would be assumed to be “just another random kit car” and mark it as out of scope. It does not need to be an essay, just enough to get an idea of what makes the car is and why it is desirable.
Cars that are out of scope will be binned under reasoning of being out of scope. Please ask if clarification is needed.
The Submissions
A Forum Post Ad is required along with a picture.
A blurb regarding your car’s lore is required - either in the ad or through DMs.
All submissions should be sent to me, @Xepy through the forums DM. If you do not have forum DMs unlocked tag me in the thread and we’ll sort something out
Submission Open: May 7th
Submission Deadline: June 6th, 2025 11:59PM MDT
Extensions: Only if needed (Submission drought/ multiple requests with active builds)
Resubmissions: NONE - unless there is a game update on stable
Final Notes and Changelog
This CSR Round I am aiming for a slightly different approach, with a bit of inspiration from CSR 163 in prioritizing the reasons - that being the story and lore - a car could have to be desirable rather than the usual of what is best at a given price point. Just with a much more expensive twist - one that aims for a price point that exceeds any other round in recent memory. Hope you have fun building for this!
Changelog:
4/30: Posted
5/1: Extended year range to 1950s, fixed typos.
5/2: Specified multipliers of stats for convertibles.
