Applying this to the engine would also make sense, to prevent anyone from entering a car with a ridiculously over-engineered engine. Also, the PU limit for the engine should be around 40-ish, give or take a few, for the same reason.
What is classed as underpowered…
Is it the warning, a power/weight ratio we should aim for, or a 0-60 time?
Don’t know what the East Germans were using but I passed my driving test in a Nissan Micra 1.0L in 1990!
The Fuel Thing is quite absurd. choose between 91 and 95 ron for this challenge otherwise it adds an unneccesary variable that wouldnt and SHOULDNT exist otherwise. I have a range of engines i dont like deviating from and it is not agreeable to just throw the stupidity of the multiplier thing in to complicate things. sorry if this is rather abraisive but please just remove that particular point and replace it with setting us at one fuel only as is the sensible thing to do
@Admiral_Obvious Adressed, thank ya
@Jaimz the warning, though I don’t think you should deliberately aim for low hp
@Human89845524 I suppose I went a bit overboard, my reasoning was that higher quality fuel is more expensive but aids economy.
Also, you are really sort of encouraged to overengeneer (a bit), this is an engeneering competition after all
@Sky-High I… uh… yes. Clarified,
but fuel economy sort of has to be blown up a bit as it’s sort of a smaller factor in-game
Interesting. I would of thought that Drivability would be the most important thing over fuel eco?
Anyhow. 4 doors? what about hatchbacks with 5 doors, as they are very very common for learner cars etc.
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Also, max 300hp seems a bit wack, unless we’re desiging like an allround learner car, for advanced driving courses and things. Most learner cars have 70-90hp, so over 200 would be way too much unless it’s going to be used for that sort of course.
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I don’t want to add any more fuel to the already burning dumpster fire, but I’m going to ask two things:
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Did you do your research on learner cars they used to have in Germany during the early 90s? Because I’m fairly certain you wouldn’t find any sub 300hp cars around for that segment. Even most 130-ish HP cars are adequate to cruise through the Autobahn at high speeds. It’s the drivability and safety that should be the very first priority, following those should be reliability, service costs and comfort.
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Did you actually make test mules according to the premise of this challenge? Or did you slap in a few random rules and regulations out of nowhere?
I would have guessed in 1991 a leaner car in Germany would have been the base polo. Even if you go east I would aim for an an FSO polonez or Skoda favorit
Could make a baby Bentley. If it weighs 2.5t, 300hp isn’t too wild. In fact, my car I passed my test in (Lexus IS200) would have a higher p/w.
The short is: This is not just suposed to be a driving school car, but build reputation, too.
It’s… sort of far fetched, but just to justify the scoring and it’s place in PDC.
Let’s be honest, there is no such thing as a ‘driving school car’.
So you’ve essentially built a budget HHD Round 8? Is that it?
well it is now
Guys, we are looking at restarting this round.
Give us a day and we’ll have something for you to compete and complain about. 
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aww heck you actually beat us to actually opening the submissions.
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Don’t worry, you’ll get a submission between 24 hours to -2 hours before the deadline when it’s announced!
I’ve got the feeling you could make cars before the competition is even announced 
I was pretty close to unveiling one… tbh I feel happy enough with it that I half-expect to be using it in some sort of future challenge if this one gets totally rebooted.
I’m confused of what i have to submit.
i dont think anything, there is no competition is there
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