2020? Zavir Espresso 85 D300
WHAT THE HECK
…you may be asking. Why is a Zavir here, and why this Zavir is a bus? Well, since I think the very beginning of the Zavir brand on this forum (and that was a long time ago) I had the idea (and sometimes mentioned it) that Zavir is much more than just fancy cars, and in fact the whole corporation makes just about anything that has an engine - including buses. But, since I don’t really wanna delve too deep into that stuff, I don’t really have any lore regarding that, any plans, and thus anything non-car from Zavir I’m also considering to be non-canon. Thus, this lands here.
And what “this” is? Actually, I have some loose ideas. Espresso is Zavir’s designation for coaches, and 85, as you may probably guess, roughly translates to the size - in this case, around 8,5 metre. To be precise:
It is powered by a fake diesel of course, and actually this engine was the source of the idea. First, I wanted to see how realistically a heavy duty diesel can be emulated (not very… to say the least - car-sized diesels turn out more realistic), and when the engine was finished, I wanted to use it in something. I couldn’t find a suitable truck body, so I went for a bus.
The engine is a 6.8 litre pushrod I6 (realistic so far…) making 1104 Nm of torque and 300 hp - this is too much, but I couldn’t really lower it without just breaking the engine just for that. Realistically this kind of bus, and this kind of engine, would have around 200-250 hp I think. The same problem exists with car-sized fake diesels, just old - they are just too powerful, especially N/A ones.
What else isn’t really realistic about it? I think the 33 passenger seats it has is a bit on the low side, but IDK, I don’t have much experience with such small coaches. The weight seems too low, despite my efforts to raise it. And certainly the gearbox behaviour in BeamNG is all kinds of weird 
Well, you can see that yourself: Zavir_Espresso_85_-_D300.car (65.1 KB)
