2015 has been a good year for you. You have just earned a promotion that has now given you your own office with your name on the door and a fancy title that isn’t made up. You have decided that you must now upgrade to a car more befitting of your new-found status. Your 20 year old rustbucket that you had had since uni just isn’t going to cut it in the company car park anymore. You weigh up your options but find out that you cannot get the best three cars on the market. Your neighbour had just got a BMW 340i last week which means you can’t get one of those. Your best friend is having his Jaguar XE S delivered next week and the Mercedes-Benz 450 AMG does not come out till next yea. and you can’t have this 50 grand burning a whole in your pocket whilst you struggle with your (t)rusty old hatchback. So what do you do? you decide to look further afield and seek other car manufacturers who can provide what you need. AND FAST! Your yearly inspection on Lil’ Rusty is coming up and you want to get rid of her before that pops up.
[size=200]Rules and Regulations[/size]
[quote]
YEAR - 2015
MODS ALLOWED - All Steam mods apart from badge mods and Ix35 grille
BODIES ALLOWED - 4 Door Sedans less than 20 years old
WHEELBASE - Less than 2.75m
CYLINDERS - 6 or less
VALVES - No 5v per cylinder
DISPLACEMENT - No more than 3799cc (231.8ci)
INTAKE - No Race Intake
FUEL TYPE - Premium
HEADERS - No Race Headers
CATALYTIC CONVERTER - One must be equipped
MUFFLERS - 2 must be fitted
POWER - No more than 350hp (261KW)
WHEELS - Alloy only
BRAKES - No Carbon Ceramic
SEATS - 5 only
DRIVER ASSISTS - All needed
TOTAL COST - $16,999.99 or lower[/quote]
[size=200]How Competition Will Be Scored[/size]
Using the criteria below, you must decide what route that you want to take. I will not set any minimum requirements, but the stats will be weighted as such:
Points will be awarded for each stat with the best car receiving the most points whist the worst car would receive the least.
Points will be as follows:
1st : 25 points
2nd : 20 points
3rd : 16 points
4th : 13 points
5th : 11 points
6th : 10 points
7th : 9 points
8th : 8 points
9th : 7 points
10th : 6 point
11th: 5 points
12th: 4 points
13th: 3 points
14th: 2 points
15th: 1 point
The stats will be weighted as shown above and the 3 cars with the highest total scores will receive a review each. The 12 other cars will receive a breakdown of their scores but no review.
[size=200]How To Enter[/size]
Entries will be accepted until the 10 spaces fill up.
The cars must comply fully with the rules stated.
Car must be exported, zipped and sent to me through PM.
Tell me your Car Company, Model and Trim name in the PM as well as the nationality of this company.
Feel free to give me as much or as little information as you want about the car as well so that if you make the reviews I can include some extra info.
Cars must be named in this format
[quote]
MODEL - JECB-[Username]-Model
TRIM - Whatever you want
ENGINE FAMILY - JECB-[Username]-Engine
ENGINE VARIANT - Whatever you want[/quote]
Yeah, but V6 Turbos are not implemented yet, meaning the only option is an I6 turbo. It’s his choice wether or not to change it, I just think it might diversify the competition a bit.
I didn’t allow v8’s because these cars rarely do come with v8’s unless its the actual performance version (m4, c63). But turbos are allowed and it is possible to make a NA v6 perform well. I just tried to make it realistic rather than have a bunch of v8’s in every car. Also, people have started to submit cars so it would seem kind of unfair to them if the rules change. There is a lot of flexibility in the car you want to create, just under a few regulations rather than minimum stat requirements.
Made using only the finest Aluminum body, and using an Engine that weighs 450 Pounds, You might think you are facing a very lighweight peformance sports car. But then you find out it weighs almost 2 Tons. Why? Because 'Murica.
I would like to present the first publically shown car from Yucatan Manufactura de Coches y Autos.
Starting out in 1942, this company built rugged off-roaders and reliable family cars for years and years. However, on the early 80s, they didn’t follow the trend for ever more refined cars, nearly went bankrupt, and ended up being bought by Baltazar Automoveis, who turned YMCA into the cheap-car arm. The brand went through a major rehaul, phasing out the YMCA name in favour of simply using Yucatan. On the new group, it became the cheap car arm, using old platforms to make budget, entry-level cars. And this is where this car comes. Using the shell and monocoque from the well-regarded 1999 Baltazar Basil, only with panels made of aluminium and a new engine under the hood, the Yucatan Zavala should be a step upmarket for the low-tech, low-rent company.
Disclaimer: This company will soon be on the game, with cars made by me to compete on the off-road segments. I thought I might introduce it to the forums, albeit in a completely different application, just because I couldn’t use the modern big not-XF body
[quote=“Tycondero”]
I hope it will still be allowed to enter. IMO there are way too few places in this challenge.[/quote]
Thank you for entering Tycondero. The reason for only 10 spaces was because this is my first competition and I didn’t know how much interest there would be. I also didn’t know how hard the admin side on my part would be. It isn’t going too bad and so I might make more spaces in another competition using the same format if there is demand for another competition like this.
The Centauri Neutron, understated luxury for the unassuming professional. edit due to several export issues and revisions the final product will differ slightly from this image.
