I really enjoy making a good turbo engine. I hope they’re just as fun after the forced induction revamp, too. 
So, basically, I turned the Peppermint into an American muscle car on all three variants. Good performance on all counts, horrible economy and emissions on all counts. I guess I should have gone for more performance! 
One of the fun little quirks of the competition was watching loads of engines that scored really well on performance but not economy end up in ties with engines that scored well on economy but not performance. It’s pure serendipity that I noticed the NE-1 was very economical and low-emissions and decided to include those criteria, but I like the result.
And I built an engine that did not perform too well and had the economy of a dragster!
Still scored better in Sport and C. Sport than the original Peppermint 1.2, though!
well, at least i tried to give a nod to economy, i seem to have completely buggered everything for the deluxe model though
Were I the only one building in-house engines? If so, I consider myself a winner in that category
I’m happy with the brand results! 
5th overall. middle of the pack as usual. not bad 
congrats to lordred
and thank you packbat for hosting this
You were, in fact, the only!
You’re welcome! 
Thanks for the competition, Packbat.
Glad to see one of my variants was consistent in its intended group, even if it wasn’t the best. Though in the Standard and Deluxe, it was good to see that a good ol’ pushrod N/A V8 held out so well.
I’ll be dead honest, I was surpirsed I even got as high as I was in Standard, and just at dead average in Delux, and while dissapointed, not so surpirsed in the sport category.
Besides how I had to rush (becuase life priorites even though that seems like a lame excuse), I did want to stick to what my company would actually build and/or use.
I know for one area the budget was uncapped but I was trying to keep things ‘cheap’ but also reliable and economical, along with some extent of power.
That and in some vein I knew i dropped the ball with the sport category, I got too frustrated trying to keep fuel economy while getting a higher perfomance motor and even considered using a turbo variant, but dropped it in favor of simplcity even if the fuel ecnomy was pathetic. The fact it’s a convertable did me no favors since outside roadsters/convertables built from the start to be such and open cockpit race cars, I didn’t like convetrable much even as a child before I knew what swear words were.
Which is why I feel a little more prideful with the standard version as I was able to achieve comparable mpg results while having a motor far more powerful than the 1.2 block.
The fact all 3 have 5 speed gearboxes with some attempt to put emphasis on fuel economy helped.
The Delux was me deicding to say ‘screw it’ and put in a ‘new’ V8 design, said design being the result of a challenge I failed to finish or enter, but the engine in question I at least was impressed given what I could get out of it with 1981 tech on a carb.
So I gave it a shot again with 1985 tech, and figured if I’m going to use a big engine that will decrease fuel economy, it may as well be a big, reliable and midly powerful engine with perfomance figures that would put to shame the likes of a mitsubishi Starion or even a Corvette so at least when the family does the haul, the car isn’t crippled.
I may try another challenge…maybe not, we’ll see.