Man With a Van Challenge! (Second Review)

Community Challenges & Competitions
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Man With a Van Challenge (Open to entries! 18/20)

Ladies and Gents, I give you the “Man With a Van” Challenge! Your goal is to create the most usable and reliable van.

The deadline is October 31st, or if there are 20 entries, whichever goes first.

(Steam Workshop mods are allowed, But no VMO mods)

Please name your vans and engines as following:

MWAV (Your Username) (Van Name)
(Trim, whatever you feel like.)
MWAV (Your Username) (Whatever you want to call your engine)
(And whatever you want to call the engine trim)

Da Regulations:

Year Tech: 2015

You must have an enclosed body shape. This means no pickup trucks.

Your van must a cargo capacity of 2000L

It must have a catalytic converter, and 2 Mufflers.

Minimum safety: 50

No Polymer.

The minimum number of seats is nessacary.

Your van must be able to exceed 100MPH.

Your van should get from 0-60 in less than 15 seconds.

You have a budget of $12000 Total.

Point Values:

Utility (Very High Value)

Drivability ( High Value)

Reliability (High Value)

Comfort (High Value)

Economy (Value)

Low Service Costs (Value)

Prestige (Low Value)

Sportiness (No Value)

Off-road (No Value]

Winners?

The Top 5 Vans will be reviewed by Marc Shromet, CEO of the Shromet Corporation,

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Accepted Entries:
Ponni CargoMate

Astana Exporter

AMW-Express

Seishido hardy

DMA-CV-115

Blasters_PewPew- CaryAll

Lenraj Shippie

Strop-Hercules

LHE-Elephant

Koolkei-Swan

Infinity-HC20

THE_STIG-CargoMax

Boss Brute

Thecarlover- Solo Bear

Storm Courier

Solstice-Supernova

Ignis Fidelis SE

WMC-Vanguard

Rennen-Spatium

Griffin Car-GO

Polmot-Type V

Baltazar-Andromeda

Galt-V-series
Pending Entries:

Rejected Entries:

because there are not a lot of “van” bodies, here are some on the workshop:

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=467754750

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=467166593&searchtext=

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=488482775&searchtext=

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=467506654&searchtext=

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Question, why does the 100MPH thing matter? Vans will never exceed 100MPH on the streets, and many might even be limited to 50 or so.

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Why two mufflers instead of a noise limit?

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@Microwave it’s less about being able to go 100 miles an hour and more about having enough power to be able to get there. Last thing you want is for your van to stall on a hill while carrying a wedding cake.

@Riso I might change that, it just seems simpler.

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Tech year = 2015?

Also is cutting the budget gaining us points or do we want to max out the budget?

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What Tycondero said.

Also…

:open_mouth: and what about carbon?

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I would be surprised if anybody seriously built a utility vehicle with polymer as environmental resistance would be affected. Carbon fiber would be superior in every way but holy hell you’ll blow your budget big time for sure so that’s pretty much precluded. I think that focusing on scoring env. Resist might be a more effective discriminant as it’ll give people freedom to choose but penalise those who make dumb design decisions (e.g. fibre glass lol). It’s not bad the way it is now thought.

I find that utility is also dependent on power so the 100mph minimum may additionally restrict things like gearing and aero (aero on a van… Well.) So I’m not sure if it is necessary. Then again in terms of mandating a certain range of entries, it may help maintain a more even playing field.

I am crap at these kinds of challenges but as one of the more organised ones currently I might give it a shot for lolz.

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[quote=“strop”]
I am crap at these kinds of challenges but as one of the more organised ones currently I might give it a shot for lolz.[/quote]

I feel the same, it’s simple and fun. I’ll give it a shot.

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if i wanted to use the older van body type, the it doesn’t have 2 seats option only 4.

so that type of body is completely prohibited?

also. which part of the world is this targeted at?
different area have different running cost

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12000 Budget is for total cost or retail price on the market?

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@Tycondero You want to max the budget. The money is going to spent either way. Try to cut service costs if anything.

@JasonPoland If you have the guts to make a carbon fiber Van, then by all means. :laughing:

@koolkei it really doesn’t matter because I’ll be judging the cars in the Same spot, so it’s still a matter of lowest cost. I suppose as long as it can reach the cargo minimum I’ll change the amount of seats.

@NormanVauxhall It’s the total production cost. Retail isin’t really relevant here because whoever takes the biggest loss in profit would automatically win.

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How are you calculating service costs? Just going off of the first running cost number?

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Hopefully not. If you press detail stats and go to running costs, there is a number on the far left column titled “service costs”. I’d imagine it’d be this number. If not, I’m going to come last for sure.

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And that is why I ask, service/running costs are region based now, just want to know what region and which stat exactly I need to use.

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It is just the one titled “Service Costs” I will probably use Gasmea, but it doesn’t really matter, since if I judge them all in the same area, the score should still be the same.

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But the way the scores interact due to differing weightings will change. You MUST specify which region you are going to use or the process loses transparency.

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Also, yes, you say you’re just “going to use the one titled service costs”, but there’s a lot of things titled service costs. Read my post from before, do you mean that one?

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I guess I’ve still got quite a couple things to learn about this new update.

I’ll Change “Service Costs” to every running cost in the car’s segment. This Includes Service Costs, Insurance Costs, and the Tax Base. The cars will be Judged In Gasmea because that is the default.

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ok sounds good to me! I made a few, uh, atypical engineering choices in my van. I wonder if they’ll pay off…