I’ve been meaning to contribute to this for a while, and just kept forgetting. Most of my contributions here will also be the cars I build that I submit to contests but aren’t part of my main company (Gryphon Gear) lore.
So here, have the Empyrean Infernus, my submission for CSR16. I was a bit sad it came runner up, but that was because of my usual habit of not making the interior as nice as supercar owners seem to want them.
What’s appealing about this car? You now have access to some of my design elements (though I’m constantly changing and experimenting so that doesn’t mean much). More importantly you can see what I did to make a turbo V12 make a 1650kg car have 850bhp and a fuel economy of 8.5L/100km or something (might be more than that, I also used active suspension which I normally never do). And you can also see how I optimise suspension and tyres as per weight distribution to make the car go quick around the track. I’m sure more can be gotten out of it but I was also trying to keep the car somewhat civilised on the road.
McHorseguy - CSR16 - strop.zip (110.3 KB)
I’ll also drop the Courcheval Manta here, or at least, my reimagining it for the modern era. I’m not great at muscle, but when it comes to the modern era, which is all about fixing the old deficiencies with good engineering, well, I’ll give it a good shot.
This car is probably mostly worth looking at to show off the rear end. As KLinardo pointed out, I was a bit lazy on the front, because one was most likely to spend most time staring at its vanishing tail lights.
McHorseguy - Courcheval Manta.zip (96.2 KB)
I submitted the Juggernaut Indy to Sillyworld’s Fruinian muscle car cup, but it actually started life first as a car for a tournament Manche was going to hold that never quite got off the ground. Either way, the premise was simple: how muscle can a muscle car get if you keep muscle car muscle? That meant pushrod V8 RWD, produced in the 60s. After seeing the result, I’m fairly sure there’s such a thing as ‘too much torque’.
However, it’s about as balanced as you can get it despite being a bus of a car. And a relatively unique styling technique up front, too.
McHorseguy - strop- Juggernaut.zip (93.6 KB)