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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That name’s quite the coincidence, since I just came from Everett and drove into Vancouver after a vacation in Florida…
Not exactly coincidence… he’s originally from the West sound area. 
And AHEM… I live in one of those cities you just mentioned.
OH LOOK, CARS!
1999 Ardent Chancellor
Drive into the new millenium in style. Stretch out in the spacious cabin. Open yourself to the sky with the power moonroof*. Or take off into the unknown with up to 268 horsepower from the Shrike V8 engine*.
The choice is yours. Your Ardent can help you select the options right for you.
After all, it’s a car worthy of Jack Chancellor’s name.
Be Bold. Be Ardent.
*Moonroof optional on SE trim, standard on all others
*268HP Shrike V8 available only on GT and GT Limited trims
Submitted trim: Chancellor LS V8 (214HP)
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At the end of the 20th century, Maesima had grown quickly, perhaps too quickly. This rapid rise was driven by a relaxation of socialist grip on the economy of Anikatia and flood of foreign investment. It was this that allowed Maesima to pursue its export efforts and the creation of Maesima’s US operations. By the mid-1990s the companies lineup had grown to four car lineup in the US consisting of the mainstay Celento sedan and wagons, Exestis affordable coupe along with the NRZ sports car. Joined by the new NL-992/Senatos premium sedan. Maesima’s first effort to enter the premium market.
The Exestis was based on the Celento’s UF chassis but used the rear suspension from the NRZ. This design would take over from the NRZ line in the companies rally efforts in Group-A. The Exestis proving to be one of the companies most successful rally vehicles achieving impressive performances in the 1995 and 1996 seasons. The Senatos derived from the NRZ chassis and engine initially struggled but after some price cutting found a niche. Although the damage was done to the luxury image. But things were about to get much worse. By 1997 Asian Financial crisis hit and while the Democratic Socialist People’s Republic was able to keep itself above the fray it was forced to devalue its currency to protect its competitiveness with the other nations.
The DSRA had made its currency fully convertible only a few years prior to the crisis. The Anikuro currency devalued swiftly and lost more than half its value. As the crisis intensified in the following months when the effects of the devaluation showed up on corporate balance sheets for Maesima. Which had to borrow in foreign currency had to face the higher costs imposed upon them by the Anikuro’s decline and many other firms reacted by buying foreign currency through selling Anikuros, undermining the value of the matter further. The effects began to hurt Maesima and it was forced to cut costs where it could. The company suspended most of its Motorsport operations and focused on its rally efforts albeit in a greatly reduced capacity, as a result, it never able to achieve the same level of success.
The UF-platform Celento had been in production since 1993 and efforts to replace it were already well underway when the crisis hit but it still caused issues. While the successor was planned during the lavish era. Bringing back the liftback, wagon and sedan variants. The lineup was simplified and engine choices reduced. Earlier plans to move the successor to UR-platform of the Exestis with independent rear suspension were scrapped and a revision of the of UF-platforms torsion beam was kept. The Exestis and NRZ were given minimal upgrades and the Senatos was also left to languish in the new economic climate.
The Celento remained a key product for Maesima both in the US and abroad, but on the auspicious year of the crisis the Celento was replaced and its name discontinued (in most markets) and replaced by the Avellca. It was thought amongst the higher ups within the US and European operations that the Celento name was too closely associated with the companies early budget roots and as part of larger plan to move the brand upscale, starting with the NL-992/Senatos and NRZ. These plans proved completely unfounded disastrous ill-timed and placed the company under even greater financial strain during an economic crisis as it threw away its heritage it had worked so hard to build up with the Celento.
Despite all this, the Avellca continued the reputation of the Celento in all but name, continuing to provide class-leading reliability, outstanding value and service costs matched to impressive warranties. Thankfully for Maesima the Avellca proved just as successful as its predecessor and help kept the company afloat in the growing crisis of the noughts. The Avellca kept the companies award-winning and critically acclaimed MCG-engine. One big first for Maesima was the MCG-engine was improved with its first DOHC head now standard on all models along with drivers airbag and remote central locking. Efforts were made to improve fuel economy compared to its predecessor along with changes to suspension setup to improve comfort and handling response.
Avellca 2.2L Liftback Xz 5MT: $6,844*
(*+10% in 1999 value equal to 8,958.00 (+10%) in 2010 Autiomation units)
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