Honda? No I found a huge pile of leftover transmissions from 90s Dodge Caravans, very cheap! 
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Hey folks. My job recently picked up from 30 hours per week, to 60 per week. It’s all good, because I was really hoping they would. It does however, cut into my automation game time, and I will not be able to finish this challenge. If I were, I would have wrote a story about how the S.U.V. market had grown so much that luxury brands were jumping into the market. My 1999 entry would have likely been an S.U.V.
Alternatively, much like the XC70 and Subaru Outback, the late 1990s were the beginning of the modern crossover. I submitted an AWD version of the Capricorn for Knugcab’s magazine, but it was not refined enough for this round.
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Thanks for playing, and congrats on work picking up!
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The Mk 1 Tauga was a hugely significant moment for Erin. It embodied a new focus on safety and efficiency, utilising aluminum construction on an affordable, everyday car for the first time in the company’s history. Developments that had been pioneered through ErinSport’s Group C programme a decade prior were now benefiting a car that the majority of the public would actually be able to buy.
It was also the company’s first ever mid-size executive saloon, with its broadside squarely aimed at the German and Japanese competition that dominated the market at the time. It would quickly establish itself thanks to its great package of efficiency and distinctive driving feel, and would further cement this place thanks to success in the European Touring Car Championship - with the help of Caliban, of course.
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Can I get it with a fiberfix rollbar too?
To demonstrate the power of Flex Tape, I burned this one of a kind concept car!
Now that’s a lot of damage!
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…but the tape STILL STICKS!!!
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…I JUST SAWED THIS BOAT POST CAR IN HALF!
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(Softtop sold as extra)
This is last vehicle made by the founders. After the Death of William Hunt in 1994 his son “Fallow Deer” takes over the company and starts to modernize the whole lineup.
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About 36 hours left for submissions in this round. I’m missing 14 potential submissions (including my own… to be rectified tomorrow)
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@VicVictory, thank you for this competition. I’ll be dropping out here. I am out of inspiration for my company lore in the modern times. I already felt I rushed it a few times in the previous rounds, and I’m currently reviewing my lore anyway. So I’ll be dropping out.
But I continue following this, because the entries and the readups and the evaluations are a always of great quality.
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@VicVictory Yeah, I would go on a bit of a soliloquy, but essentially I no longer will have time for a few weeks or so until I can get back to the challenge. Until then, I’ll be on the sidelines watching. Thanks for hosting for now, and hopefully you’ll see more of me later on.
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The 1999 Everette Vancouver
Toyota made a critical lapse in judgement when they started Scion. Making a brand targeted at the modern youth doesn’t work because America of the 1990s and 2000s was not the same America of the 1950s and 1960s when such a strategy might have actually worked. There was no post-War economic boom to put money in the pockets of the youth, so the result is a generation of kids trying to buy any old junk they can get their hands on. What are the cars / brands that this generation dubbed “Millennials” actually go for then? Used Buicks, Mercuries, and high trim Everettes. Because if you need a car that costs nothing to buy and you couldn’t give a fuck about anything except the drivetrain, nobody does that better than 1990s American premium.
Toyota should have cloned the Vancouver and made that the Scion brand. For real though, no. These things are terrible. Go check out its story in FHL’s thread and you will see what I mean.
Wait, Hang on. I am getting a call
Oh hi, GM. What’s up
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What’s that? You want your horse piss quality interior back?
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Uh huh… I am guessing you’ll be wanting your horrendous body rust back too then?
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Fuck. Well looks like I won’t be submitting a car.
Just kidding! 
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