The building of the upcoming Quadrant Thylacine 2023
Why did I built it?
All of this started 2 years ago, or even 3! It all started as a small car and one that would end competing with Galactis Elysium (fun fact, I’m the full designer of that car!) and some Sunburst Shenanigan, I mostly wanted to focus on those two because I was, first at Sunburst and then at Galactis so for me it made perfectly sense. But firstly I will present you… the first two iterations, under Malaxa.
Malaxa Code: Excelon
The car Lost in Time
It all started under Malaxa, back when all my cars would be under the Malaxa Banner. There isn't to much to shown but we can see the front fascia is quite simple, nothing rich, meanwhile I wanted for the headlights to be double circles, just like the Alpine, so all of it started as a base fo the Alpine A110.
Meanwhile, it came with an 2.0L inline 4 turbo, and would be fitted with an electric engine at the front, with the objective of hitting 440hp.
With the following changes, some design elements did continue into the bigger version, the rear was heavely idealised by some McLaren cars and the diffuser and such was by the Huracan. While it was more agressive design wise and possibly better, by this time it had an interior, with the plans of keeping it simple and very driver friendly. Sadly I don't have pictures of the interior.
Both car files we’re lost with time, could’ve been a crazy project back then, but that’s it.
Furuya SSX
Short lived
This unique japanese model was built from the ground up, it had a 4L V6 TT pushing 600hp, with the inclusion of an AWD system. While I wanted it to have an electric motor at the front, the source code I had was broken in BeamNG, so the ideia was ditched, but later on I and Wollank did fix it up some bits of it.
Photo Gallery - Furuya SSX
The front is heavely reiminiscent of the older model, as we can see by the headlights, the front bumper has some McLaren desiging queues.
The side was slighty redesigned, adding a top vent and some contour to the side skirts, nothing crazy here
The tailights and vents ideas mostly came from the Audi R8. The designing aproach of the rest, as the diffuser and the exhaust of course, did indeed come from a photo of a white car, that it does look like a Mercedez, it’s one of the default slideshows in the game.
As I said in the original post, I am quite saddened that this project didn't go as planned, yet it lacked so many things, including an interior, I hope someday I will revise the ideia of a japanese supercar, or that someone else picks the work where I left off...
Quadrant SX62N
It was so close
By this time, I’ve decided to add this project under my Australian brand, and the brand phylosophy is to keep it simple while having crazy tech under the hood. So basically, went full blown out with a 6.2L Pushord V8 Naturally aspirated, pushing 460hp and 640nm, coupled to a 7 speed DCT and the year set in 2023. While the specs sound good to be true, it lacked pure peformance. While I did add an electric engine into this, still didn’t felt good enough, but design wise, it was perfect.
Photo Gallery - Quadrant SX62N/H
Here at the front I’ve decided to go a bit more agressive styling with it, I did want to try something new too. Meanwhile, if you look closely to the hood and the side profile of the car, still keeps up with some changes while having same design elements as the Furuya SSX.
If you look more down under the side profile, we can see that it has some “body” lines, so I’ve decided to go with a McLaren 720s lower side profile, because It was looking quite great, but it also made a bit of sense, after all it’s a McLaren-esque body.
As I said earlier when explaining the front, I wanted to try something more agressive as you can see by the diffuser here. Now if we look closely at the tailights, I did want to made a 3D effect, while giving some retro vibes! Plus as a bonus, the Quadrant logo does light up as you go in reverse.
Onto the interior we can see that it’s really really simple, it’s something I wanted to still keep up as the Excelon V2. While you see brown clusters floating, I wanted to make them feel like a fighterjet cluster and also feel… like a hologram!
This one still has potential to be launched on BeamNG, but I do have to redesign some parts, and as someone said, "a Lotus-like side profile with an engine reminiscent of the C8 Stingray seem like a match made in heaven - abg7", and with that I decided to continue with this formula onto the next car... MEET THE THYLACINE
Quadrant Thylacine
The last stand of Quadrant Australia
The Quadrant Thylacine is the final version, is what I’ve envisioned the whole time, since I started working on it, I can happily and confidentely say that it’s the best car I ever made until now.
Spec-wise the car comes with an 6.2L V8 Pushrod Naturally Aspirated pushing 440hp and 580nm, while being in low power figures than the SX62N/H, it’s defitnely more refined, more faster, while still being more heavier than it (Thylacine weights 1520kg (not dry)), and also coupled to a 8 speed DCT. Mission complete with that.
Photo Gallery - Quadrant Thylacine
The interior is still the same as the old one, mostly the dash location and floor, the rest is all made up from scratch, still continuing the interior ethos of being simple and driver focused, same as the SX62N. While at that, no you have a place to put your phone on, the stand on the middle console, and lower down space it’s up for the person! It also has a cup holder close to the dials.
Interior shot 1
Interior shot 2
Honestly speaking, when I started building this car, I didn’t look for any ideias, so I just… follow my vision.
Front end
I wanted to make the roof top have some aerodynamic lines.
Top end
A more agressive rear end and still the quadrant logo lighting up.
Rear End
So as you read along, this is, of course, the final model, I won't be working more on it, only making trims if I feel too, but honestly speaking wouldn't hurt having a convertible or a more agressive version.
