Gasmea, 1963. The CEO of CMT, Mr. Christoph Martin Thandor and his Art Director, Frank Moss drank too much whiskey on this summer evening. Thandor, who prefers sausage with french fries over a gourmet steak told Moss, he had no idea of art. The end was that the police had to come and Moss has quit his job. But what to do with the successor of the CMT Enterprise fullsize sedan? This should have been the next project…
Gasmea, 1964. One year left until the debut - and it was the task of the trainee do design the car because project leader Mr. Trimm has been too lazy to care about it. Thandor was shocked. THIS LOOKS LIKE IT COMES WITH A STANDARD CRASH DAMAGE! GET ME MR. TRIMM!!
Head of sales, Joseph Trimm, had only one solution: We must ask the competitors for help. We will not get a new art director within the next six months but we need to proceed NOW. What a shame
Your task?
Design a car based on the body you see - year 1965 The Excelsior should be sold in a wide trim range starting with a simple V6 engine and going up to ultra-luxury V8 models. It would be great if the car fits both. Customers should recognize it as CMT. I am really not strict here, but its welcomened if you can give it a CMT feel. Get inspiration here.
Your reward?
Hopefully fun when designing the car. The winner will be part of the official canon CMT timeline and mentioned there. If wanted, the winner can get one car from my timeline thread and adapt it for his own company.
Deadline?
April 20 2019
Engineering necessary?
No. The car will be fitted with CMT engines and components. It is just about design
How to take part?
Post screenshots of the car in this thread from front, rear and side like in the screenshots I provided of my shitbox. You can also provide as much detail screens as you like.
Judging
**you can archieve up to 5 points in a rating. These are:
Confirmity with year 1965
Elegance
Sophistication
Sportiness
Fitting the CMT brand?**
And yes, I am aware of the fact that it is a purely subjective judging, not really fair in the sense of being objective. But I hope you will have fun anyway.
I’d love to do this, but sticking to my companies lore, theyd be too busy with their first performance car design. good luck for you and other companies though!
(This is just my excuse for being a bad designer lol)
I can design many wonderful things (this only applies if weird means wonderful as I have made some really weird shit) (I will only enter if you want me to)
EDIT: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Almost correct. They ask you to design their car as there is nobody who is able to do a proper car design… I mean, look at that piece of crap in the screens. The Frunian CMT division does not have any resources.
I was going to ask the same. There are a couple different wheelbase lengths for that body. Which one are we using? Or are you going to provide a .car file for us to edit?
"Dear god! This is weird!
“I know boss, but do you really prefer to take our design?”
“Get me the Frunian guy on the phone!”
“I have no idea of Gasmean taste!”
“I dont care, just do it!”
Nobody knew back then that Mr. Trimm will change his job to a shoe company manager and the most iconic slogan was acutally a yell of Mr. Thandor, but well…
I started designing the car before you released the .car file, so my car has completely different underpinnings. Will this be a problem or will you be able to change those things to your spec? cuz I’m finished with the design and only need to do some clean-up thingies.
Here is my entry for the challenge. I based the looks of your original design and then I infused it with a bit of 60’s Meijer design language. I hope you like it.
