2020 Aureon rS
Aureon rS R Super 6, specifically
A car entirely inspired by this thread - quite often in such cases I’d just make a technical design without really touching styling (aside from morphs, paint and maybe rims), but this time it felt like if I were to post anything there, it should also look decent. And, well, the design flowed nicely…
This is also my first real attempt at making a livery, I think, and I’m happy with how it turned out - although I’ve gotta admit that the paint options on this body helped greatly. Also at some point after taking the first photos I’ve realised that changing the colour scheme a litte bit (mainly the bonnet to white) could work even better, so the look differs slightly between the pics.
Technically this is a pure-blood +15 car, as allowed by the rules that inspired it. However, the power limit prevented it from becoming some absolute monstrosity and actually it’s pretty normal to drive in Beam… well, normal for sth having a Koenigsegg-like power to weight ratio.
Speaking of the performance - this thing has plenty of it. It’s a small (4,19 x 2,06 m with 2,31 m WB), fully carbon fibre race car, thus weighing just 726 kg (regulated minimum). Power comes from a 3.2 twin turbo V6 making 850 hp (regulated maximum) and 1082 Nm and goes to the rear wheels only through a 7 speed sequential and - obviously - electric LSD. Effect? 0-100 km/h in 2,4 s and up to 460 km/h (+15 active aero, remember).
As for the name - I had a naming system for Aureon designed before, and in it rS was meant to be a high end, sport focused coupe, and R denotes top performance variants (like Lexus’ F). This fits the bill, so it got that name. The engine being just a V6 fits too, since I’ve imagined that modern Aureon would only use two engine families of turbo I4 and turbo V6, but designed so that their most powerful variants could compete with 6- and 8-cylinder engines, respectively. Especially the V6 competing with V8s.
Fun fact - I’ve accidentally deleted this car while preparing this thread and I had to dig it back out from the Beam export files. But I’ve succeeded, so you can play with it: Aureon_rS_-_R_Super_6.car (54.9 KB)
