Favorite of the "Big 3" American car companies?
- Ford
- GM
- Chrysler/Dodge
0 voters
I happened to stumble across this site/game today…sounds neat! however I live in the United States (Tennessee) and was wondering if it would be available here? 
Wong place dude
You should post in Off-Topic
The poll was more or less for fun, just saw a poll thing and thought it’d be fun to add. The question itself still stands
Okay fine i’m drunk 
This game probably sold on Stream
hahaha alright thanks
ford obviously 
welcome mustangmaniac
I would have to say ford… Although its beyond me why they keep giving the Mustang truck suspension…
Favorite big 3 American car manufacture
Hmm, what a hard question.
or maybe not 
It’ll be sold online, so you can buy it anywhere 
Thanks for the confirmation, Daffyflyer!
The game looks promising and very fun to play!
It is interesting to see an overwhelmingly Ford response…since here in America Ford and Chevrolet are very close competition.
I do have another question though. Will the game be very menu based such as statistic charts and graphs etc. or will it be hands on as well? Such as being able to visit a major city (New York, London, Sydney) and be able to see people actually drive the car that you built?
If you take a look at this automationgame.com/node/39 From back in September, is a first pass on the screen presented as the trade routes manager.
We are going to try and balance both, there will be menu’s charts and things, but we want things to be similar to the Engine Designer. Everything should have Visual feedback to it.
We want plots where your factories are. With car parks, with cars driving from the factory to the car park, and from the car park to the dealership to be sold.
Things like that.
There won’t be a city level view though.
yep ford seems to be the most favourable company so far.
you say ford and chevrolet are close in america but here in the uk we dont get chevrolet(well we do but they are just rebadged daewoo cars)which is not the same thing lol. 
im a massive fan of ford as my name suggests.
GM isnt chevy alone…
i think with all the brands and stuff like Mazda/Ford considered GM sells more cars in the german speaking countries. Most of them are Opels, like astra, vectra, sigma, corsa.
personally i like only one car made by GM, the corvette, one of the things ill do in the beta (if the V engines ever get to be part of it) or the game is to build a Corvette V8, and then compare its output to the one with mods like DOHC, 4 valves etc.
Same for the Viper.
To follow on with what Zeussy said, the basic layout of the game is like so (subject to change, but this is how we have it planned so far)
World Map - A view of the whole world, From here you’ll be able to see ships transporting your cars and select regions, view world information etc.
Region view - Basically just a more zoomed world view looking at one region.
Plot view - a view of your factory, complete with buildings, cars driving out of the factory and being shipped etc.
Specific views - like the engine designer or car designer, or the factory screen, marketing screen etc.
I’m not sure I’ve explained that very well, but there you go
Thanks zeussy and daffyflyer, that actually did help. When you think about it a true city view is tons of work, and really you gain nothing from it! So that layout makes sense. It’s great that you guys are keeping in touch with everyone like this
To Deus ex Machina and fordford: It’s interesting to see what they’ll do to appeal to every market! Like for instance how in America the hatchbacks haven’t quite caught on yet, so in Europe there are many Ford and GM cars we don’t have. I guess that marketing strategy will apply to the game too! Since you ship your cars overseas to different markets etc.
Yes, a city view would be loads of work, and its doesn’t add much, we would rather focus the effort on the Car related things
If you want a good example of why the city view isn’t that great, play Car Tycoon, it has one and its pretty bad.
Yes, that kind of strategy, designing models for each market, deciding what to export etc. will be a bit part of the game
[quote=“Daffyflyer”]Yes, a city view would be loads of work, and its doesn’t add much, we would rather focus the effort on the Car related things
If you want a good example of why the city view isn’t that great, play Car Tycoon, it has one and its pretty bad.
Yes, that kind of strategy, designing models for each market, deciding what to export etc. will be a bit part of the game[/quote]
I know, the city view in Car Tycoon was horrible!
If you sold too many cars the traffic got so bad the cars couldn’t make it to the Dealerships… And on some maps they would take a 50mile trip on the highway around the map instead of going 4 blocks to the dealership… Damn employees, I didn’t pay them to go joyriding
On topic: I like ford because they have a more world influence than say chevy. Like the Focus and Fiesta are more European than American… It still bugs me though that they give the Mustang truck suspension. Is Independent Rear Suspension too much to ask? 
i think there are 2 to 3 main problems with american style cars in europe.
- price. focus.de/auto/fahrberichte/t … 59603.html corvette C6 US:~45k $ => 35k €; Germany: 60k € nearly doubling the price with taxes and shipping? i dont think so.
1b) taxes: not only on buying the car, but ongoing eg.: fuel. 1l (~ 1/4 galleon) costs 1.3x € in austria, so a 100l (read somewhere thats 26.4 galleons) tank equals 130 to 140 € => (130 * 1.2) ~ 156 $, and americans cars have at least the image of gas guzzlers.
- enviroment space: i know 3 parkgarages in vienna where a Q7 cant enter without damage, be that the roof upon entering or the wheels ( and probably something connected to them with the 25 cm curbs) in the up and down spiral. in the rest you need 2 lots because with a single lot 90% of the time u cant enter it anyway, and the rest means u cant open the door…
so 5x2x2m (l/w/h) cars are more or less beyond the max. acceptable size and a pickup fitting those still has the problem of space usage. what do you need a dedicated, non weather proof transport area of such a size? a tourer (hope thats the right word) has more or less the same space, maybe with folding the backseats, but weatherproof, and u can leave stuff in there and its not out for grabs.
- technological/feel image: i can only write for austria and germany, but here the image for blatantly american cars (opel is mostly still seen as seperate entitiy to GM and Chevy) is low tech, comparable power only with more engine volume, therefore wasting fuel, bad handling through corners mostly due to the low tech suspension, wasting space, too big, and also wasting engine power with low tech transmission. and sport cars with automatic? (im not talking about mercedes AMGs, many dont see those as sport cars, but tuned luxury cars) till recently a big no-no, and even now the german car industry takes many pains to avoid calling CVTs and double clutches automatic, even the classic automatics dont get called that. also again american automatic with 4 or 5 gears? low tech, mercedes has 6 or 7.
i admit the above is an exaggeration, but nonetheless u cant exaggerate feelings that arent there.
the media isnt quite innocent (more the opposite, as usual ). if one reads the auto, motor & sport, in nearly every article about german cars theres a quarter of an A4 (most of the time more) page just about new tech implementions. eg: new engine in an audi/bmw/merc listing of the new features, praising them above the old ones, the picture of a cut-through pointing them out, then talking about how good they feel when driving.
corvette: new engine, and again more volume, great sound, BUT cheap looking interior materials, at best medicore handling/automatic etc.
and the above magazine is quite a big player.
[quote=“Drake”]
[quote=“Daffyflyer”]Yes, a city view would be loads of work, and its doesn’t add much, we would rather focus the effort on the Car related things
If you want a good example of why the city view isn’t that great, play Car Tycoon, it has one and its pretty bad.
Yes, that kind of strategy, designing models for each market, deciding what to export etc. will be a bit part of the game[/quote]
I know, the city view in Car Tycoon was horrible!
If you sold too many cars the traffic got so bad the cars couldn’t make it to the Dealerships… And on some maps they would take a 50mile trip on the highway around the map instead of going 4 blocks to the dealership… Damn employees, I didn’t pay them to go joyriding
…[/quote]
DONT REMIND ME gone trying to drown that memory; again
hahaha Car Tycoon…if I had a dollar for every error message i got on that game I’d be a rich man.
and it’s nice to see some non-American opinion on “American” cars . We will never give up our SUVs it seems lol. Though many companies like Ford are slowly phasing theirs out to more economically friendly crossover type vehicles. (which have already been used/released in other countries for years now.) You rarely see Euro cars here except for the outrageously expensive luxury ones…but this is especially true since I live in the South where pick-up trucks prevail.