As unfortunate as the truth is here, I agree that a larger engine with a smaller turbo will give a more manageable torque curve, consume less fuel, and be more reliable, plus not cost over a billion Automation money units to engineer! I’d recommend going with a 2L.
As for the wheels, certainly the narrowness of the front makes sense, but the profile is ridiculously low and I think one would struggle to find real world tyres like that. Have you tried seeing what times you get if you downsized the rims and made the profile closer to 30?
The price tag of 2M is probably due to selection of the size of the factory: the smaller it is, the lower the production capacity, and thus the higher each unit costs to cover. That said material costs of 90K and production units of 2413 is still a LOT. Having gone the route of really paring back on the sliders to realise I can get 99% of the result of the old builds for about 15% of the price, I think that your aims can still be yet achieved with a price more commensurate to its stature.
The light-weight nature of this car is fantastic, if that could be kept and you could get the fuel consumption halved, and you could even improve the cornering grip further, for a suggested price of say 100k automation units, you could easily compete with real life cars like Ariel Atom or Caterham or BAC Mono, though it’d have to pack more punch to reach Rezvani Beast levels…
Comparable to A-Grip, but with all problems fixed. Instead of small 0.8 R4 Turbo engine, we got 2 liter V12 that produces over 430 BHP. With total weight of 690 kg that baby flies! WIth double clutch sequentive gearbox, and mid placed engine, it allows us to acclerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 2,7 seconds, and gives us V-max of 247 km/h. Doesnt seem fast enough? Hold that negativity! It beats Airborne Haiyan time on Airport track, just like I planned. But not only that, it also beats Airborne F15 Patricia, which actually surprised me… Here, take a look at lap time.
And now, the funniest part - it’s easier to drive this care, in comparison to Jiorani A-Grip, and to make things funnier, it has much lower fuel usage. Like much lower…
Much improved in terms of balance and performance, it’s kind of like a mini Pagani now (especially with the V12), except even faster around a tight track. However, now production units are over 4000 with material costs of 120000 or so, which means I’m guessing that on average your tech sliders are set to 15!
If you look on the market tab, the calculations are obviously rudimentary, but I would be surprised to see anything other than a 0 on all the sections, because the car will be hideously expensive. As you can see, for a medium sized factory, it would cost your company 3 million automation money units to produce one. Also, is that really running costs of 176k a year??? How did you even do that? Even my most bonkers of +15 tech slider cars only required, say, 25k, and nowadays I remade my cars so that my (tiny) company would even be viable, and the running costs for the ultra hypercars is now more like 7-10k/year (where a normal econobox metro runabout might have running costs of 1.5-2k/year).
I would not have cared much about costs or tech sliders before, but since the calculations are now in the game, I’d consider whether your company can afford it. Besides, while the concept is impressive, a time of 1:12 around Airfield may beat Pagani’s Huayra… but it’s a fairly long way from where it could be. Most of my draft builds are breaking 1:10 (and several seconds under 2 minutes on AT track), and that’s using sports compound tyres set at tech 8+. That’s with material costs of about 50k, and production units of about 500, which translates to a car that costs my tiny company about 5% of what it would have taken to produce the C-Grip.
Let me say again, I really like Jiorani Motors, your designs and concepts are out of this world and I’m mainly commenting this way because I think the company would make a good rival for my own (of which there aren’t that many). But because it’s really a difficult area to compete in, while mad concepts are fun and generate a lot of interest, you really want to have the performance credentials too, in order to convert that interest to sales, or you’ll go broke!
Thanks! I’m not mad for critique comments - specially since you. I’m happy that you even care to take a look at my projects. I’ll try to work with sliders. Maybe the car may be even faster
2015 as a financial year for Jiorani (surprise, surprise) sucked. We produced way to expensive cars, and we flushed way to much money into them. We had to rethink our strategies. Even though we had many promising vehicles, they werent enough to keep us running.
We tried to think of new vehicles. First was Hyperius - hypercar on the same level as Ferrari LaFerrari or McLaren P1. Looks nice, and car itself is not bad, but there was one little problem - car itself wanst as fast as estimated rivals even though it had over 1000 HP, and was too harsh on our wallet.
Then there was Teriste… Even though Teriste was though only as Prototype, we were thinking of using it on the market. But again, surprise, surprise, estimated costs of production were stratospherical. But there was something to it - it had 1100 HP 9 liter V12 Engine, and had V-Max of over 400 km/h, with acceleration time lesser than 3 seconds. Tests on Nurburgring showed us, that it can do lap time, around 6:50 sec.
Aimed towards rivals such as Lamborghini Veneno or Pagani Huayra, G-Grip is nice show off of what Jiorani can do with production costs cutted even 50%, compared to Teriste or Hyperius. It’s heart is 5,5 liter V12 engine, that produces 750 HP. Car weights only around 1100 kg, and can drive over 363 km/h. With acceleration time 2,5 seconds it’s really fast machine. But don’t take my words for it - just take a look…
The costs are indeed much more effective, but production units of 2000 is still very high, and I wonder where most of it is going. Perhaps you are using high amounts of tech on the race tubular exhaust?
You probably still have more to gain in terms of tuning to balance the brakes, suspension, tyres and aero. See if you can manage to get that G-grip around Airfield in 1:10 or less!
I can’t get over the fact that my supercars are ruining my company. Even G-Grip didnt managed to get good results, and got too expensive. Jiorani has to start doing something atractive for clients. And here is our best try.
Reinventing our definition of sports car, T-Grip is great sport car for everyone! It’s powered by 4.5 liter V6 engine with 409 HP, accelerates to 100 km/h in 5,6 sec and stops accelerating at 258 km/h. Okay, it uses 14 liters of gas per 100 km, but it’s not huge price when you consider it costs only 25.300 $! As said by Automation!
