Forest Co. delivery car
Fruinia, May 2015
Hello everyone, I’m Jett Basics and i’m the founder, owner and CEO of Forest Co., world leader in online shopping.
We are starting a new service in november this year, in Fruinia’s major cities, called Forest Premium “Subito”, a super express delivery service running from 6AM to 12PM to deliver goods at the home of our clients in less than one hour.
To offer this we need a fleet of veichle.
What we need:
We need a small car, under 4.60 meters long, to be nimble in city traffic; speaking of witch, it must be whippy (under 12 seconds from 0-100km/h).
It needs to carry some goods, not so much, i think 1500 liters of cargo space will be enough.
It needs to be confortable, workers will use it for 8 hours a day (at least 30 comfort) and tame (>40), crashes are a big money loss.
We need the cars before november, you need to engeneer that fast (Max engineering time car+engine 150).
It must be regular to be sold in Fruinia, so at least 40 safety and a Catalitic Converter.
I’ll evaluate the costs of buying and running your car estimating 360km (225 miles) per day.
Best Regards, Jett Basics
P.S. I appreciate extravagant designs, my compant need to be instantly recognizable.
Just for easiness; here the rules
- Year: 2015 or before
- Lenght < 4.6 m (15’ 1’')
- Comfort > 30
- Drivability > 40
- Safety > 40
- Cargo Space > 1500 L
- 0-100km/h (0-60 mph) time < 12 s
- Engine+Car enineering time < 150
- Cat converter needed
- Prohibited bodies (clic on the name to see an immage of it): 60s sport car (or what it’s called); all Barth bodies.
-Only steam workshop mods.
It can be a Pick-Up but you’ll need to add 1000$ to the final price (markup included) to provide a box for the back.
How cars will be evaluated
Based on yearly costs
Y.C.= ( Price / ExpectedLife ) + YearlyFuelCost + InsuranceCost + ( ServiceCost * 3 ) + Taxes
Price = Market price at 30% markup
Expected Life = 2.5 ^ ( ( Reliability / 75 ) ^ 3 ) How many year your car is expected to work (notice: in one year it will make over 130.000 km (80.000 miles)
Yearly Fuel Cost = Economy (l/100km) * Fuel Cost * 13.000
Insurance, Service and Taxes are the values found in Detail Stats / Running costs (make sure to select Fruinia), Service costs are tripled because these cars will be used a lot.
I know, it’s a lot of numbers, but don’t be afraid. Here the spreadsheet i will use to evaluates your cars, you can use it to check yours. It’s self explanatory. I also added an Unit Converter.
I raccomend to download it (it’s a bit slow online), but if you want you can use it online (on Google documents, you need to copy it on your Google Drive to modify it).
RESULTS:
The challenge is still valid, if you want to beat @Leedar, try and post your result here on the thread.