Personally i would prefer if we follow the story line of different companies over just one, having competition and curveball of the market events influence the future (next round/decade) instead of just one company.
Nonetheless, excited for this challenge!
The Mk12
Trying to bring comfort to the survivors with budget. Cutting costs where it wont matter but keeping quality you’d deserve. Comes only in this green color (excess military camo colors) and no chrome options, only recycled steel… Cloth Bench seats but offers AM radio and AC! And a powerful I6 engine from excess military car parts!
Kinda?
Something like parody of Benz, BMW and Audi as one, a VW and Opel as another for domestic markets, something from eastern communists (Lada) and a western importer brand instead of a single company focusing on rebadging the cars. The competition would be between the 4 while a Japanese inspired one appears in future (70s era?).
And events in market can be influenced by the products that get green lit for the era…
Eh, as cool as that sounds it’d force people to make cars for 1 of 4 pre-determined brands. I don’t want that, I want people to be as free in designing their cars as possible. Maybe in another challenge though
Hold on, I think you’ve misunderstood me. When you say “multiple companies instead of just one” - are you thinking this is a sort of badge-engineering/rebadging situation? If so, it’s not, I’d like people to enter with their own companies- whether they’re from Ernstland or not.
For example, I don’t want you to say, make a Ford and then it’ll get badged as a VW once judging starts. If it starts as a Ford it stays as a Ford. Have a look at the challenges I linked- that should give you an idea.
Honestly it might be better to have nothing, if not something balanced (import tax but higher techpool for imports), making 1 type objectively worse than the other is going to reduce variety
no like us being treated as engineer/designers that work for those companies, offering options on companies that focus on performance, affordability and etc… the western import i suggested was a way to include a western influence of the post war into a single company name instead so the ruleset can be easier to manage for import cars…
I’m not sure I really understand. Options for performance/affordability focused companies are available if you want, through subsidiaries. Like Ford/Edsel, one was a broadly focused company whereas Edsel was more focused on luxury, whilst still being under the Ford brand umbrella.
The round starts in less than 24 hours, and I reckon that rules deliberation is pretty much over. Therefore, I think it’d be fair to allow you all to start building your entries- aesthetically.
Engineering can be done later, when the rules are announced, but for now you can start with the visuals- as such, here is some inspiration.
Round 1 has a shorter time frame for cars than others (Roughly 1946-1948 for engineering, lorewise a car could be earlier if you wanted), mainly because I want to focus on the immediate-post war cars available to consumers- by 1950 design had changed quite significantly, and I’d like to save that for Round 2.
Yes, absolutely, that’s preferred. Ideally one car for each market but I know people might not want to enter a specific market for whatever reason- enter as many as you’d like.
Are we allowed to split our entries over unrelated brands? For example, what if I wanted to submit trucks as Ford, but passenger cars as Toyota? Or what about related brands, like Ford/Lincoln?
Also, are there any traffic or market tastes we should follow beyond the ones in the main post? Or just follow the model of “Postwar Europe?”
