I think the fact that the Warpwind is only 50K is more impressive than any aspect of this car.
##Dimension Paradox 6 KHT
In order for Dimension to survive, it cannot simply continue what it was doing for the past 30 years, which was essentially being a manure plant that occasionally ships out fine quality gems. It has to go upmarket at every level, now that competitors have flooded their home market. We canât use Buy American ads anymore because we all know that none of these cars are made in America, instead being made in Canada or Mexico. Well technically they are still in America, but we mean the only America that matters. We canât churn out shit anymore and expect it to sell. We have to churn out incredibly formulaic bland designs that supposedly try to look more and more unique but ultimately incredibly ugly. Yuppies love ugly cars with a name badge.
This car is the prime example of that philosophy. Well minus the bland design. Or ugly. Well ugly is subjective.
The 2013 Paradox is a far cry from the working class retiree country club boulevard cruiser image that it had sported through most of its lifetime. It is now an upper middle class retiree country club boulevard cruiser. Well you can also lease it if your midlife crisis hits quicker than expected. But now it has actual sporting prowess. The car is now made of AHS steel with fiber glass panels, and double wishbones on all four wheels, a far cry from the tractor suspension found on the previous model. In order to be competitive with the world, we contracted renowned racing team and tuner Kraft Haus Technik to tune the suspension, chassis and engine. It now has actually acceptable handling for a sports car, and performance figures that can match contemporary sports cars for half the price.
The GE series overhead valve V8s are Dimensionâs new line of V8s for the current generation, featuring direct injection technology, finally. In this car a 5.7 liter V8 dubbed the GE57DE was installed, and tuned by Kraft Haus Technik. Unlike most American large V8s, the engine was tuned heavily towards high end power, and drives similarly to a European gran tourer than and out and out super muscle car. Which makes fuel economy a challenge. As you can see here, we made alot of compromises to ensure we donât suffer a hard blow because of CAFE. We still do. Ah who cares, we get enough tax breaks already. The engine produces 514 hp at 7200 rpm and 550nm of torque at 6000 rpm. Not the most impressive numbers, but not lacking either.
A lot of effort has gone into making this car go as fast as possible on track. While extremely difficult because FR cars in Automation have really awful traction, the car still manages a Ring time of 7:54:88 and an airfield track time of 1:21:12. To compensate for lack of traction, KHT has used special threads, and incredibly wide ones too, 345s on the rear with a 325 front. Power is delivered through a 7 speed manual gearbox with a geared limited slip differential to maximize power put down and remain as one of the last cars to still offer a stick shift. The car also features little in way of driving aids, because this is a burly chested macho sports car, and nothing helps compensate than one of these to prove your masculinity. For the first time in a while, the interior is not unremittingly awful, and is fitted with more than adequate safety features. Suspension is lifted straight off the Boson GT, standard springs, with adaptive dampers and semi active sway bars tuned for sports driving.
This car was meant as a world competitor. Can it?
I can see quite a few visual changes and a N-ring lap time 5 seconds faster than what I done. Nicely improved.
##Dimension Rift 2.2DX
The âmalaise eraâ. The term was used to describe the 1970s. After the fuel crisis. every car was simply awful. Horrendously unreliable, virtually zero power due to emissions restrictions choking the engines severely, poor handling, safety standards creating the ugliest cars of all time with their 5 mph bumpers, and generally poor engineering and thought placed into the cars, which allowed Japanese and German manufacturers a significant foothold in the US market, their local brands have proven that buying American is synonymous with buying inferiority.
Thankfully those years are far behind us. However for Dimension, the malaise era wonât end until restructuring. So here is a poorly engineered, ultra bland, dreary to drive, but safe and somewhat reliable rental grade trash that will be the butt of jokes to come.
Styling blander than poor quality table salt, super budget construction. Whatâs not to love in this car? It didnât do anything wrong. No but it sure as hell didnât do nothing right. This is the DMV in car form, horribly inefficient, extremely boring, and will never die. Only you need to deal with the DMV first before getting the car. So thatâs double the boredom. A steel body with polymer panels for minimal cost and decent safety, with very cheaply made advanced safety technologies, because it looks good on the brochure. A plastic fantastic interior, built out of horrid quality ones at that, all wrap a package as the sort of car that sucks your soul everytime you drive it.
Powering the car is the LE22EI 2.2 liter inline 4 engine, built to be fool proof, except when it isnât so it inevitably gets recalled a year into production. It churns out 130 hp and 193nm of torque. Yawn. Power is transmitted to the front wheels with a four speed automatic gearboxxxxâŚzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Oh you know what describing it is already agonizingly boring. Rent one today and try it out for yourself!
Dimension Rift SSP Turbo 4WD
The early 2000s saw a rise in the popularity of sports compacts, thanks to some Japanese racing game making youngsters think that they can tune their econoboxes to very high power outputs with no ill repercussions and some other cheesy street racing movie popularizing the rice rocket fad. So it became clear that young people want a fast, cheap, and gaudy looking car. And what better platform to start on than our cheapest?
The dreary looking body of the base Rift was aggressively kitted, trying to imitate the Japanese rally based performance sedans, which were very conveniently still not exported to the US, which gave us a huge advantage in coming first. Massive flares allow 265s on all fours, and a gaudy looking rear wing ensures popularity with the flat brimmed crowd. The suspension is switched to double wishbones for actual cornering performance.
The packed engine bay of the car necessitates the deboring of the LE22 to a 2 liter. However it is fitted with a turbocharger, so you wont be losing power any time soon. It is significantly more powerful than the competition, with 340 hp and 350 Nm of torque, it can outrun contemporary high end sports cars. The turbos are quite peaky however, and only come on past 4000rpm, which can make it a bit more difficult to drive daily. Fuel efficiency is not good, managing only an 18 mpg.
340 hp and a very light weight body means the car can get going very quickly, at 4.3 seconds to 60 mph, that is still faster than the Paradox 6. 4WD ensures maximum traction and helps significantly with launches, which makes the car very quick in shorter courses. However due to drive line loss and high drag from the wing and body parts, the car loses acceleration quickly as it goes faster, which hinders performance on longer faster courses. Interior has been uprated for a more premium feel, but in traditional Dimension quality, the parts are very cheaply made. 265s medium compounds wrap the 18 inch wheels, and the suspension has received adaptive dampers and sports tuning for maximum cornering performance and drivability.
Base price of 25K which is nearly double of the base Rift.
So what do you guys think?
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Iâve been making time attack variants of my cars. For some reason downforce doesnât do much in this game.
Still managed to shave alot of time from my cars.
Wow Iâm way overdue for an update. I havenât been playing for a while so I canât think of a better way of revitalizing the old thread with a significant rework of the one car Iâm most proud of. The 2010 Boson.
Car is rebuilt from the ground up and has some significant styling changes, but letâs just say I retconned the original design to resemble this more
2011 Dimension Boson Noir
More power, much cheaper to make, and infinitely more badass looking, the Boson Noir returns to devour hypercars and track records after the competition caught up real quick with the original car. While the original car was supposed to a much more sedate, user friendly, subtle but still a savage and uncompromising supercar, you can tell the Noir wonât like you as much.
Gone is the aggressive but subtle styling and replaced with uhh all aggressive. Bigger and moar vents, more canards than a Super GT car, a massive Carrera GT style active spoiler, and a roof scoop complete the styling package. Body remains an aluminum monocoque with carbon fiber panels.
The familiar HB40DITT Direct Injection Twin Turbo 4 liter V6 recieved a mild power boost in form of a racing intake, an RPM limit increase to 9000 RPM, and turbochargers tuned to take advantage of the higher RPM. The block and heads are now made of aluminum silicate to save weight. The engine now produces 860 bhp a 60 hp bump over the standard Boson and 850 Nm of torque, a 50 Nm increase over the regular model. With slightly less of a concern to regular usability, and of course with the addition of more power, fuel economy has dropped to 13 MPG and CO2 emissions rose, however the car still runs properly on premium gas like the regular Boson. However it is a much smoother and responsive motor than the standard HB40DITT, which helps with the spirit of the car as the enthusiastâs choice, providing not only more performance but also much more of a joy to drive as well.
The suspension has been switched to a pushrod setup to allow for significantly better vehicle dynamics and cornering performance, and it came from the factory with a circuit oriented setting. Suspension is fully adjustable and there is a section in the manual that deals with setting. Or you could just pay your mechanic to do it because youâre rich. Doing your own work on your car? Preposterous. A downforce undertray complement the aggressive aero kit, the car produces 340kgs of downforce on the rear at just 200km/h. The interior and audio have been significantly uprated, with better quality materials all around. Brakes are 380mm 4 pot carbon ceramic rotors up front and 390 mm 2 pot vented rotors rears. As we all know ceramic brakes are very very pricey so by only having the fronts, which often suffer more wear, as ceramics this helps save costs in brake replacements as well as lowering the price due to not using ceramics on all four corners. Rear ceramics are an option at $6000 extra however.
(Times are done with semi slick tires)
A top speed of 342km/h, some 2km/h down due to the somewhat higher levels of downforce this car produces over the standard, 0-60 in 3.2 km/h, a .2 second improvement,a .3 improvement in 1/4 mile time and a .4 improvement in standing kilometer times. The car pulls a massive 1.65Gs on the 250m cornering test, an improvement over the standard the car which already pulls insane skidpad numbers. Fat 345 semi slick threads on the rear and 255s up front allow the car to achieve 1:09:820 in the airfield test track and 1:31:750 on Laguna Seca, times which are up there among the hypercars and hypercar killers.
All in all the Boson Noir starts at 220K, with only one color option available. Which is obviously white. Duh. Dimension plans to use the Boson Noirâs motor in standard models starting the next model year.
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0-60 in 3.2 km/h? Did it also make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs? 
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Less than 
Just curious how many cars per day the factory is listed as making (with a monocoque, itâs forced to be at least Medium-sized), and (theoretically), if you could realistically move enough 200 grand cars to justify it.
I understand if youâre not focused on the economics/marketing, but itâs the sort of thing I like. 
Hmm it appears I can use small factories for both engines and cars. A daily rate of production of 5 cars and 5 engines, kept intentionally at 5 a day with minimal automation.
And we make a 40% profit for each model sold so while a halo car such as this wonât exactly be a money maker, it can pay for itself somewhat, and the experience and not to mention the marketability this car will have (video games, licensed merchandise and what not) will help improve brand image considerably. Since Dimension is a large company (when I made it I had in mind a GM/Ford parody), our brand image isnât exactly the best so cars like these will only help.
I did check and found that glued aluminum monococques can be built in small factories.
Sorry Iâve been inactive way to long. But expect many new designs and models from various points in the companyâs history.
##2009 Dimension Rift 2.0 GE
The Dimension Rift returns for a complete redesign after the bailout as part of the companyâs attempt to âreinvigorateâ its brand image after years of producing rental grade garbage that havenât left the days of the malaise era while the rest of the competition was leaps and bounds ahead. Along side the Boson supercar that was released earlier in the year, the Rift is the first mass produced direct injection engine to be offered by Dimension, if abit late in its introduction. A sharper and more modern styling help disguise the fact that this car is just as dreary as the last the one.
Car is now built out of a AHS steel monocoque and corrosion resistant steel body panels, macpherson struts up front and a multilink suspension in the rear for better and easier handling. Interior and entertainment is nothing out of ordinary, made of somewhat better materials than the last generation Rift and safety is nothing out of ordinary, sufficient to go well above the NTHSA standards but not necessarily death proof either. Suspension and is tuned for ease of driving and road comfort, with usual springs and gas mono tubes and standard sway bars. Tires are all seasons run flats, 175mm threads on all fours. Single piston disc brakes up front and drum brakes up rear because discs on all fours are considered excessive for a commuter car such as this one.
Powered by a 2.2 liter Inline 4 LR22DI, a direct injected and slightly modified version of the last generations LE22FE, it produces 155 horsepower at 6200 RPM, which happens to be the redline of the engine as well. Not exactly powerful but sufficient for most daily use. Gets 36 MPG average which is more than acceptable for commuter duty.
An inexpensive commuter for city use? How can you fault it? Itâs like the automobile equivalent of a cubicle worker, smart and cleanly dressed, professional, has no personality whatsoever outside the job, a complete bore when you take them out for drinks and cries itself to sleep every night over its miserable life.
##2010 Dimension Rift SSP Turbo 4WD
The miserable cubicle worker now gets a fitness hobby, a steroid habit, and canât stop talking about his expensive sports equipment despite only taking up the hobby just a few weeks ago, the next generation SSP fills the role the previous one did, a four wheel drive high powered sports compact car. An obnoxious and unapologetic one at that.
The standard Rift body gets massive flares to fit 265mm all season performance tires on all four corners, and aggressive and dechromed front fascia, a rear bumper that wouldnât be out of place in a mid-2000s racing game and a massive rally style rear wing. Body panels are switched to fiber glass for weight reduction, and to compensate for the safety drop, the car received additional braces in the doors and bumpers, which serves to improve chassis rigidity as well. Suspension was switched to a double wishbone unit upfront with adaptive dampers and semi active sway bars for better cornering. Massive four pot vented disc fronts and single pot vented disc rears help stop the car quickly. Interior quality is slightly uprated but is still a far cry from luxurious or comfortable. At least in the base Rift the suspension was tuned for comfort.
The LR22DTI motor is the same cast iron four valve block found in the 2.0 GE although debored to 2.0 liters to fit the turbo. A high boost unit allowed the 2 liter motor to churn out 370 horsepower and significantly strengthened internals were used to be able to reliably handle the 8500 RPM redline, which for a long stroke engine such as this one is not an easy task. The motor was mated to a 6 speed manual transmission with a viscous limited slip differential and four wheel drive system at a 55:45 front rear split, allowing blisteringly quick 0-60 times of 4.0 seconds.
A top speed of 262 km/h, mid 12 quarter miles and 4.1 0-60 times allow it to battle muscle cars stoplight to stoplight than just making excuses about beating them in the backroads. 1:20 and 1:45 at the Airfield and Laguna Seca are acceptable times from a car around this level performance.
Dimension denies having copied off the styling of any model of car from any sort of universe and insists it is an all original and a natural Evolution of the last generationâs design 
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Dimension is also eagerly looking for racing teams and tuners wishing to make participate in WRC or create demo cars based on this and is willing to send in a few cars to anyone who contacts us.
Desperate magazines and shady âautomotiveâ websites have begun spreading rumors that a Boson successor is scheduled for a 2017 release. With KHT and Gryphon Gear announcing their ultimate hypercars for the 2017 Hypercar Shootout, its not exactly far fetched to think Dimension is planning to send one of their own.
Renders made from sneaky photos taken during prototype testing implies the rumored successor is supposed to look like this.
Or could it be something else entirely?
Excellent. Bring on the track tests.
##2016 Dimension Entropy Izanami
Named after the ruler of the underworld in Shinto mythology, the Izanami is Dimensionâs latest and last hypercar for a foreseeable portion in the companyâs future. Built to challenge the likes of KHTâs Mistral and Gryphonâs offerings, naturally it must have impressive numbers and tech. Well it has the first but the latter ehhhâŚ
The Boson GT never used a carbon monocoque in any time of its production, but doesnât mean we havenât been researching into carbon chassis construction. This machine features all carbon construction to minimize weight, chassis rigidity and safety. Dimension plans to use carbon fiber more liberally in future vehicles by researching cheap methods of construction but as of now it remains exorbitantly expensive, not helped with the carâs limited production numbers.
Suspension is a pushrod set up on front and rear for optimum handling but uses a standard spring set up with active dampers and semi active sway bars instead of active springs. The car features a carbon fiber aero undertray and active wing to produce downforce numbers of 360kg at just 200 km/h. 21 inch magnesium wheels are wrapped in specially developed for the Izanami Toyo Proxes R444 (yeah Toyo makes the Proxes R888 which is also an R compund tire, but the lower number of 4 instead of 8 is because 4 is considered the number of death in Asian myths and thats kinda the thing I got going on in this car), R compound semi slicks that provide massive levels of grip and also hilariously expensive (thing made up 10% of this carâs material cost). These allow a skidpad number of 1.7G at the 250M cornering test. Brakes are oddly 2 piston 250mm vented discs up front and 380mm 2 piston vented discs at the rear. The reason we donât use carbon discs or fancier calipers is because⌠they stop quicker. We donât get it either but hey if it stops you in under 27 meters with no fade, why the worry?
Interior features all leather and brushed aluminum trim but otherwise nothing too special. Fancy digital gauge clusters with tacky graphics and an overabundance of modes and displays up the wazoo, paired to a basic stereo set (the cheapest type our supplier makes dressed up in brushed aluminum to make it look fancy) with advanced safety for maximum protection in case things go wrong in the track. The car features electric power steering, anti-lock brakes, traction control, ESC, and launch control, but naturally, all those can (save for power steering duh) can be turned off easily.
The heart of the car is a twin turbo DOHC 30 valve 4.5 liter V6 dubbed the HX44DITT, a modified version of the HB40DITT used by the Boson GT to use a magnesium block as well as increased bore and stroke for more power. The engine remains 5 valves despite fuel economy concerns due to the added weight of the VVL system and because Dimension has never produced a V engine with 4 valves per cylinder to date, which would just add in to engineering costs. Multiple powerplants were considered including a prototype twin turbo V12, but it ends up being to heavy and expensive for this vehicles use (despite getting better fuel economy in a much much heavier prototype). The engine produces 1004 brake horsepower at 8200 RPM and 951 Nm of torque at 6500 RPM. Redline remains at 9000 RPM. Running on 98 RON fuel, it is cleaner and more efficient than the motor seen in the HB40DITT, however slightly less smooth and responsive. Mated to a bespoke 7 Speed manual gearbox driving the rear wheels, one of the last of itâs kind to use one, and in the only part of the interior thatâs reasonably fancy, the center console is made out of glass to display the shifter linkage. All that power is sufficient to power the car to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 217 miles per hour.
As part of its marketing campaign, Dimension entered a bone stock Izanami into a time attack weekend at Tsukuba and while it didnât exactly post the quickest times of the day, it was fast enough to hang with highly built dedicated track monsters that could run with a full blown Super GT car if given race slicks with a time of 56 seconds on a flying lap.
1.07.60 on the airfield is reasonably quick for a car of this level of performance.
.10 of a second of the current Laguna Seca lap record holder (How that thing is as fast as it is still fascinates me)
And a 6:50.862 at the Ring. Mighty fast for a production car.
So there you have it. Competitive with you folk for the 2017 Hypercar shoot out?
Also wouldâve posted more records but Spa and Suzuka laps are standing starts, while the car Iâm trying to beat does flying laps⌠wouldnât be fair to assume how much quicker the car would be in a flying lap.
Also wouldâve done a VIR lap record, but our test driver here seemed really scared by the car to the point of braking hard on a very very high speed section⌠and thus is currently 20 seconds behind record time. We need a new test driver.
I need to stop building sports and supers. Weâre not a supercar company after all.
Production limited to 444 units. If we can even move 444 units.
Base MSRP of USD$350,000. Much more expensive than most your offerings Iâm sure but that engineering cost scares me. Considered mass production but eh the market of 350K hypercars isnât exactly that big.
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Sorry mate, the looks are gorgeous, but this needs to be faster.
I was specifically shooting for your Mistral because I thought fighting GG was wayy to expensive but it appears I am still 50 KM/h down on the top speed lol.
You said yours made 1000 horsepower and about 1022 NM of torque so that was about my benchmark⌠then I realized that was the initial designâŚ
Well thank lord I have that V12 ready then.
Youâre aiming at the wrong car. Mistral is a 400hp car and costs 120k. It is about 17 seconds slower around the nurburgring yes.
If youâre aiming for the Eau Rouge - youâre in the same-ish price and power category, thatâs for sure, a 100% markup gets me in about 300k MSRP before factory settings, but the nordschleife lap time is 6:41.
In any case, we need a reviewer who wants to pit hypercars head to head again.
P.S: V12 is a mistake 