Same body as you used, @ramthecowy. I’m now 240 bucks under budget. Given @phale’s wagon weighs about 150kg more, they probably went with a larger wagon than this, one with larger wheels to mitigate the brake balance issues. The extra mass boosts utility and safety, the extra size comfort and also the driver height penalty (-1.7% on this body). Hopefully this will be enough to counteract the loss in cornering. Also I may not have to use advanced safety, which is really adding to my PU.
Important notes:
Since we’re not trying to shoot for max speed, only enough that drivability from performance doesn’t suffer, a top speed of 126km/h and 0-100 time of under 18s is sufficient. 60hp for 840kg is enough.
Since we’re not gearing to max speed which is my usual habit, using a ridiculously large grille is in fact a ticket to free reliability. Well, at the cost of fuel consumption but now you know why phale’s car’s mileage sucks
To max the drivability stat I went with a longitudinal FF drivetrain, which kind of killed utility because the driving wheels aren’t underneath the load. Was this the right way to go? Dunno. What I do know is that you can maximise your efficiency with a longitudinal V6… though I don’t know if this helps drivability because it’s nowhere near as smooth as an i6. But it’s better than an i4 and i3.
on the other hand, my car does 0-100 in 18.9 seconds, and it just cracked the 60 drivability mark.
nets 61 reliability
and transverse FF 943cc I6 that makes 55hp, so my car has more utility than the benchmark phale car
reaching 65 drive while staying under budget is a real pain now… the car is currently $240 over budget
I’m liking what I see here This kind of collaborative discussion is exactly what I was hoping for.
@strop that looks pretty good! Judging by the stats, you’re certainly getting closer than I was expecting in one day
By the way, I didn’t pick a wagon body specifically for this challenge. This car was designed for my company history, and I thought it might fit well here I suspect you may be able to do better with a sedan body, I won’t dock you on the utility. The drivability is what I’m mainly looking for
When you’ve logged 1300 hours post Steam release and probably that much again pre-Steam release, you’d hope I could pick things up quickly
Then again about 80% of that time was spent trying to make cars look like fighter planes and 80% of the rest went into modern hypercar slayers with increasingly unrealistic performance goals so I guess not
edit: forgive me for being lazy, but could somebody tell me the pink body fix? There’s a body I really really want to try out but it has the pink body problem.
edit 2: it’s also true that I frequently leave Automation running in the background which can’t be good for my PC given just how CPU intensive it is currently, so probably haven’t actually played quite that many hours.
… but with a body that small you’ll never hit the other targets even if you go way over budget!
@phale you’re using the wagon version of corvette’s 2.79m wheelbase 1965 body aren’t you. That’s the one with the pink body issues, and it’s slightly larger than the body ram and I have been using earlier. I haven’t yet finished fixing the issues or tried the body yet but there’s few other suitable candidates, right?
edit: hmmmm maybe this body is too large. arrrrrgh which is it??? Must readjust engine again, now over budget… on target for everything else though.
I would like to enter, but I’m lacking in time. This Christmas+New Year days are hard, so there isn’t to many players to enter the big number of challenges that are created.
So the deadline was too close. At least that’s why I didn’t enter.
(I already have 15+ cars to scrutinize and run for ABL, so next week will be chaos, won’t have the time)
I guess I can submit incomplete cars since I haven’t had any more time to work on them.
I for one however do feel that you should keep on the hosting duties until somebody does actually match your stats, though! Otherwise the learning exercise is unlikely to be anywhere near as effective.
This kind of collaborative discussion is exactly what I was hoping for.
I suspect you may be able to do better with a sedan body, I won’t dock you on the utility. The drivability is what I’m mainly looking for 
