[quote=“07CobaltGirl”]
[quote=“Packbat”]Do you have time tonight? I’d be perfectly willing to go to bed and leave my PM box open for another few hours. 
Edit: Seriously, though - I’d be happy to have more entries. 
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Nah. I had to work early today as well. I have a car I could have submitted, but I didn’t feel it was good enough to compete. Next time. 
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but why?
bad car is better than no car
[size=125]Results, 11th-4th[/size]
In reverse order, from least to most desirable:
11. $(631.63): AMW Rooster - $12 000, $3791/yr, Two-Door FR Sedan, 4.8L OHV SPFI V8. “Two plus what? Who needs plus? MORE LEGROOM!”
10. $219.08: Heiser Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S - $12 000, $3117/yr, Two-Door MR Coupe, 3.3L DOHC SPFI V6. “Some aluminium cans make you dizzy, disoriented, and stupidly happy. Others contain alcohol.”
9. $472.90: LHE Astonish X4PE-Lite - $12 000, $1932/yr, Four-Door FF Hatch, 1.9L OHV MPFI I4. “Not quite as astonishing as it was last year.”
8. $502.44: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX - $11 500, $1440/yr, Two-Door FF Hatch, 1.6L SOHC MPFI I4. “The top recommended hoon car … by the hoon’s elderly relatives.”
7. $577.03: Solo Loon XS - $12 000, $4078/yr, Four-Door FR Hatch, 5.3L SOHC SPFI V6. “Well-made, except where the customer can see.”
6. $613.73: 1993 Riso Motors SHX - $10 600, $2084/yr, Two-Door FF Hatch, 2.0L SOHC MPFI V6. “Hottest car on the market! (No, literally. Don’t use the AC in traffic. The engine will boil.)”
5. $1053.83: Centauri Commune Neutrino FX - $9 000, $1459/yr, Two-Door FF Hatch, 1.6L DOHC MPFI I4. “Even cheaper than it sounds - no power steering means a free workout every drive!”
4. $1239.91: Komodo Motors Cavaro Fox - $12 000, $1675/yr, Two-Door FF Hatch, 2.0L DOHC SPFI I4. “Supercar sophistication at city car costs.”
2-1/2. $1697.91: PAW Pteropus GT [reference only] - $11 900, $2496/yr, Four-Door FR Sedan, 1.5L OHV MPFI Turbo I4. “Sure, it’s a brick, but it has a wing!”
The top three legitimate entries, with scores of $1562.24, $2381.14, and $2454.24, are - in alphabetical order - the GSI Dingo, the MM Excelsior RC, and the Storm Automotive Savage TT.
But for the details on those, you’ll have to wait. In the meantime, some mosts and leasts:
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]Wheelspin - Least: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX. Most (by a wide margin): Solo Loon XS./:m]
]Quarter Mile - Slowest (by a wide margin): Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX. Fastest (by a wider one): Heiser Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S./:m]
]Prestige - Least: LHE Astonish X4PE-Lite. Most: Heiser Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S./:m]
]Sportiness - Least: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX. Most: MM Excelsior RC./:m]
]Drivability - Least (by a wide margin): AMW Rooster. Most: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX./:m]
]Cargo Volume - Least (by a wide margin): Heiser Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S. Most: AMW Rooster./:m]
]Comfort - Least: Heiser Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S. Most: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX./:m]
]Fuel Economy - Worst: Solo Loon XS. Best: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX.5/:m]
]Reliability (not that we care) - Least: Solo Loon XS. Most: LHE Astonish X4PE-Lite (Engine), AMW Rooster (Overall)./:m]
]Rims - Smallest: LHE Astonish X4PE-Lite. Biggest: Riso Motors SHX./:m]
]Tyres - Smallest: Storm Automotive Savage TT. Biggest: MM Excelsior RC. Biggest Difference Front/Rear: Tie between PAW Pteropus GT and Heiser Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S./:m]
]Name - Shortest: RM SHX (abbreviated), Solo Loon XS (unabbreviated). Longest: Heisler Automotive Division of Luther-FASE Automotive Alliance Kardhal Sargossa 323 Track and Sport./:m][/ul]
(I have been informed that the Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S advertising materials include the claim: “0-100 km/h in less time than it takes to say the name!”)
A couple other pieces of trivia for the curious:
[ul]]My reference car is, in fact, the only turbo in the competition. It is also the smallest displacement engine at 1525 cc./:m]
]Of the 11 entries, 6 use Hard tyre compound, 3 use Medium, and 2 use Sport. (The PAW Pteropus GT uses Hard.)/:m]
]Of the 11 entries, 5 use Regular Unleaded and 6 use Premium Unleaded fuel./:m]
]Of the 11 entries, 9 use VVT and 2 do not./:m]
]Of the 11 entries, 2 use VVL and 9 do not. (Both cars with VVL have VVT as well.)/:m][/ul]
Let me know if there’s anything else you’re wondering about. In the meantime, I’ll start working on reviews.
Good to see I got the most wheelspin, though maybe I should have considered reliability and service costs a little more 
This was a fun competition!
[quote=“koolkei”]
Nah. I had to work early today as well. I have a car I could have submitted, but I didn’t feel it was good enough to compete. Next time. 
but why?
bad car is better than no car[/quote]
You’re right, but…48 hours in 4 days, AND Tuesday was my birthday also, so…very…tired.
Belated happy birthday! May you have many more.
It is entirely okay not to enter a car. I wouldn’t want to enter a car I wssn’t happy with, either. Thank you for your interest!
How about more irrelivant data Packbat!
Weight high / low
Number of cylinders is listed (except for the top three, where you’ll get that data in the reviews); number of valves will take a bit of work to copy out, but I can add it to the spreadsheet (remind me after the reviews get posted if I forget); weight?
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]Weight - Lightest (by a wide margin): Komodo Motors Cavaro Fox. Heaviest: AMW Rooster./:m][/ul]
How about the loudest car? I know it’s a trade-off for comfort, but loud exhausts seem to be a staple for this kind of car.
4th place… not bad but could’ve been better.
that top 2 car just dominated the field isn’t it? the car values are double the average competitor values.
[quote=“Packbat”]Number of cylinders is listed (except for the top three, where you’ll get that data in the reviews); number of valves will take a bit of work to copy out, but I can add it to the spreadsheet (remind me after the reviews get posted if I forget); weight?
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]Weight - Lightest (by a wide margin): Komodo Motors Cavaro Fox. Heaviest: AMW Rooster./:m][/ul][/quote]
i was about to say
“wow my car is neither the least or the most in anything. i guess it’s just an average car for the average tuner with average wages, and with average expectation”
then i see this… whats the average weight compared to mine?
also… if the car name are allowed to be abbriveated… isnt my car’s name the shortest? KM-CF? of just CF/CFo?
Haha awesome.
I was hoping to place slightly better, but it’ll do. Next time I’ll actually build a car that you wouldn’t mind driving at low speeds and is actually useful in everyday life.
I’m a little shocked to see it had the most prestige, I’m going to guess it was the fact it was mostly aluminum that caused that? I can’t think of what else in it might have led to that; I’ll have to check. Quarter mile I suspected, but not by a wide margin though I’ll chalk that up to the “gotta go fast” mentality I had in mind. Cargo volume…just get creative there should be plenty of room under the hood up front. Least comfort, I can see that. Tied for biggest tire difference is interesting (I think, I don’t remember the measurements exactly). Not even surprised by longest name.
On that note: I used a timer and speaking at a “normal” speed for me I found the car was about second faster (on average). You can blurt it out faster definitely though at that point it doesn’t seem like an average conversational pace. The car is fast, but its the length of the name that makes it a challenge.
(on iPhone on the train, so no detailed replies yet, sorry)
[quote=“koolkei”]i was about to say
“wow my car is neither the least or the most in anything. i guess it’s just an average car for the average tuner with average wages, and with average expectation”
then i see this… whats the average weight compared to mine?[/quote]
I will have to check when I get home (I will probably add a Weight column to the spreadsheet, at which point statistics will be easy), but I believe you were 50+ kg lighter than the next lightest car and ~300 kg lighter than the heaviest car.
Sorry, correction: the Cavaro Fox is almost 95 kg lighter than the next heavier entry. The average weight is about 935 kg.
The OHV engines have 2 valves/cylinder, and the V6 in the Solo Loon XS has 3 valves/cylinder. The rest have 4 valves/cylinder.
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]Exhaust Noise - Quietest: Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX. Loudest: Solo Loon XS./:m][/ul]
Nope. KM Cavaro Fox, sure, but speaking as a hypothetical car reviewer, “Cavaro Fox” doesn’t invite abbreviation to me. Official mod ruling. 
Glued aluminium chassis, hand-male aluminium panels, and mid-engine layout are all intrinsic prestige boosts. You also had the highest top speed by a significant margin.
You can also credit the mid-engined layout - that seemed to be a noticeable boost to straight-line acceleration in my pre-competition testing.
You had about 350 L; average was around 500 L. Might not have been smallest in a larger competition (one of the test cars I built had no cargo space at all), but it was in this one.
175/60 R16 front, 215/50 R16 rear. Mine was 175/65 R15 front, 215/50 R15 rear. But you had Sport Compound and I had Hard Long Life Road. 
Did I at least get cheapest car?
It seems then that my car was the best car. Not the best hooning machine, just the best ecobox, designed to take people from A to B. So it does what it was meant to do.
Wait, what!? Did I seriously top-three a car challenge? I must be dreaming.
Indeed you did - no other car was under $10k, and while the Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX was slightly cheaper in running costs, when you include the 15% purchase price the Centauri Commune Neutrino FX is cheapest to own by a goodly margin. (Solo Loon XS is most expensive by a slightly smaller margin.)
Congratulations!
(That reminds me … I need to actually write the reviews… 
)
Huzza, I won something.
Sure, you can say you submitted the best car to quite a few other competitions too, in that case, if you submitted the same eco box to a supercar, hypercar, or whatever comparison
Yup, figures. I didn’t think about the mid-engine layout being a boon, but it makes sense. The fact it also produced a faster car straight line car also makes sense. Like I said, “gotta go fast” was my mentality. It seems I have accomplished my mission, though it clearly cost me in the other areas.
Yeah the original car I built had about 800 and the second had 1300, but I didn’t like latter for and the former was fine, but I wanted to go fast. Do you (or anyone for that matter) know if the game calculates cargo volume based purely on the trunk space/rear compartment or if it does include front compartment as well? I’d imagine there’d be some room up front. As I was initially joking about finding space, but I’m now curious.
Gotta Go Fast 
Wow, loudest and most wheelspin… ricers everywhere have a new plaything