J.E.C.B (Junior Executive Car Brawl) 14th PLACE RELEASED

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[quote=“Leonardo9613”]Strop will hate me for this…

But my car seems rather bad all of a sudden :confused:[/quote]

I don’t get it, what am I supposed to hate you for?

EDIT: Hm, another solid performance from my car, being a bit better than average in everything except Comfort (just), Reliability (just), Practicality (quite a bit), and Safety (just). But I don’t know if it’s going to be winning any of the big points.

Speaking of which, I actually still do not understand practicality. How is it calculated?

Also, damn, should have remembered the significant advantages to the stats the active suspension gives:

[quote]Active Sport Springs
Semi Active Dampers[/quote]

That explains why your benchmark car edges mine out in terms of drivability and quite a bit of sportiness. I have this peculiar quirk in which I refuse to use anything other than progressive springs and gas monotube dampers because they’re lighter and therefore actually yield better times on the track, which isn’t relevant to this challenge :stuck_out_tongue:

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Oooohh dear :laughing:
I’m definitely below average on Drivability and Sportiness. Pretty average for comfort. Looks like I won’t be getting many of those top scores.

On the other hand, Safety, Service Costs and Emissions… :sunglasses:

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[quote=“strop”]

[quote=“Leonardo9613”]Strop will hate me for this…

But my car seems rather bad all of a sudden :confused:[/quote]

I don’t get it, what am I supposed to hate you ?[/quote]

Well, last time I said that my car was bad, it ended up in second place. This time, well, it’s a bit better than average on some things, a bit worse in others, so I don’t know how it will do.

Also, I completely forgot about using AWD, so my car has got 295 rear tyres to tame the wheel spin a bit, which coupled with various tuning options, means that my car is pretty drive able but not that sporty.

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Ohhhh right :laughing: Well, it’s probably a glass-half-empty glass-half-full thing until we figure out where everybody actually lies. The mean isn’t all that informative after all.

My major mistake was not using much wider wheels. I used 235s all around to lower service costs. Considering drivability and sportiness was more important, I should have gone with 255s or 265s.

On the plus side I’m getting better than average drivability and sportiness with a RWD, so I guess I’ve done decently on that count?

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Wow, yeah based on some of those mean scores I might have brought a late 90’s Lexus es300 to an S class fight…

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I do think a comfort rating of 40+ is rather suitable for a car priced 50k (well… let’s guess this to be equivalent to 60-70k AUD), presuming a 250hp-ish power plant. After all, OP did benchmark the car against a Jaguar XE-S, and the stats do come out similar (except OP’s benchmark car seems to be more like… Audi’s answer to said XE-S :stuck_out_tongue: )

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Uh oh…my stats are rather…yeah… I dont think I am going to do so well here.

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I’m pretty pleased with my stats, they are all around average :slight_smile: , with one or two a little under (My MPG is waaaaay under average :smiley: ). Hopefully my car will be competitive!

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@strop: I don’t know how practicality is calculated. That’s a question for Killrob but I just included it because it is an in-game stat and seemed applicable to this challenge.
Also, what do you mean by my benchmark car is more like Audi’s response haha?

Anyway, I have finally sorted out the cars and now know the placings for each car.
One thing I could point out guys is that the stats are weighted so some stats are worth 6 times as much as others so bear that in mind when looking at the mean stats.
The median stats are a little more accurate in terms of how your car placed and a little more competitive compared to the mean due to a strong showing by the cars at the top.
Talking about the median stats, here they are:

[size=200]Junior Executive Car Brawl Median Stats[/size]

[size=150]Drivability[/size]
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[size=150]Sportiness[/size]
41.8

[size=150]Comfort[/size]
50.8

[size=150]Fuel Economy[/size]
33mpg (27.5 US-mpg, 8.56lt/100km)

[size=150]Prestige[/size]
33.4

[size=150]Reliability[/size]
70.1

[size=150]50-75[/size]
3.2s

[size=150]Practicality[/size]
61.84

[size=150]Safety[/size]
56.3

[size=150]Braking[/size]
34.8m (114.2ft)

[size=150]Service Costs[/size]
$2317.84

[size=150]0-62[/size]
5.6s

[size=150]Top Speed[/size]
158.8mph (255.6kmh)

[size=150]Quarter Mile[/size]
13.86s

[size=150]Emissions[/size]
80

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So it looks like the averages are pretty close to all the medians? That’s good if you ask me.

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Ok, that makes me feel a bit better :stuck_out_tongue:

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Purely that it’s AWD, immensely driveable, and probably has loads of tech :wink:

All I can say right now is that my car is most likely to attract the executives prone to hooning and road rage >_> It’s probably the equal fastest car from 0-100 and fastest outright from 80-120 (because there’s only so much you can get out of 350hp), and it also probably has one of the highest top speeds. And it’s probably the fastest around the track because that’s just a habit of mine. As for the rest! Well.

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My car is garbage.

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Don’t worry, I don’t think I’m going to fair much better!

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I think my car has a sportyness rating of less then 25 or so. I will lose on that alone even if many of my cars other stats are above average.

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i read now about lots of fancy stuff like multilinksuspension and stuff. I vent with more common Stuff and give some quality, hands my reliability but its not that driveable. And i got no AWD, too heavy/expensive, RWD rulez. I wonder that there isn’t an economic-malus for AWD or tirewidth. 225 should be enough for a 1.6 ton car.

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My beef, though it’s a very minor one, is that there’s no penalty for using rare tyre configurations. Service costs for tyres are based mainly on material and surface area, and the reality is that if the tyre isn’t found at certain dealers it becomes a right pain in the ass to source! (This being the subject of a lengthy Jezza rant even a couple of years ago.)

However there’s a much larger problem with using a tyre catalogue in-game, and that is of course that it’d be horrendously clunky. The sandbox mode after all aims to simulate the cars, not the market.

Really given the weightings of this challenge, in retrospect I should have used 265s all around, but instead I thought about real world conditions and concluded that 235s were already more than enough (and also the most common width for this kind of car).

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My car isn’t that drivable haha and in all honesty cars of this class have quite wide tyres nowadays. 265’s or even 275’s in some cases on 18, 19 or 20 inch wheels. It’s getting absurd but it is what it is.

I am going to release the car in 15th place later on today so stay tuned.

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I hope you do more than one per day!! 15 days is a LONG time to wait for the finish, 3-5 per day would be better if you decide to space out the reveals. Dont take this as negative criticism though, it is just my .02.

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(A 2 cents that I would wholeheartedly second, and imagine quite a few people would do the same. Particularly if you are only revealing stats of the cars not reviewed!)