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Larry Snope, aging American with a youthful heart, is looking for a fun car he can throw the top down on for summer cruising. It’s gotta be comfortable and cool! Oh, and his wife wants a matching one.
Wait, what? Larry isn’t paying for her to have a special car, she barely ever drives. He needs a base model that meets her standards, and a peak trim which he will be happy with! If they look exactly the same except for some badging, that’s even better, maybe a few vents or hood bulges aside.
Brief
Larry and Estelle Snope are looking for a pair of sports cars. Larry is pretty sure Estelle doesn’t actually want a full on sports car, but just wants hers to match his. So, he is looking for a set of cars.
The budget trim should be easy to drive, have an automatic transmission, so on so forth. It also shouldn’t be so pathetically slow that he has to ease off the throttle just to avoid losing her on the on ramp. More importantly, it has to be cheaper than the high end option!
Larry’s car has to be fast, preferably with some cool selling points, like a hardtop or a cool engine. Actual performance is not a huge deal; if it loses to an economy car or the budget trim, he’ll be upset, but it doesn’t need to set a land speed record. What it needs to do is be manual transmission, fun to drive, comfortable to ride, and cool to talk about.
Rules
These apply to both trims.
Chassis
No carbon fiber options. No space frames. These should be road cars.
Model Year: 2000 or older.
Engine
Realism is, in this case, “what is known, or should reasonably be known.” If it existed it can happen.
NO V16! I do not have the DLC.
Family Year: 2000 or older.
Variant Year: 2000 or older.
Trim
Must be an actual convertible, as declared by automation. Conversions of sedans and whatnot is too much headache for me to deal with.
Trim Year: 2000 or older.
Catalytic converter required.
Must be Regular or Premium Unleaded.
Both cars must seat 2 or more.
No semi slick tires.
Techpool
Default +5.
Price
Larry isn’t going to spend more than maybe 25 grand on the budget option, but he’s willing to go as high as 45 for his own car.
Naming
Model Name: MW - (your forum username)
Family Name: MW - (your forum username)
Priorities
The more stars something has, the more critical it is in the buying process. If it is not mentioned, it is not considered. Cars will be judged against their peers (budget vs budget) and against its companion.
The budget car will prefer automatic transmissions, while the top trim should come with a manual transmission.
Interiors will not be judged.
- Sportiness - These cars must be fun to drive!
- Style - A nice design tends to tie everything together
- Budget - Value - The budget car should be cheaper than the top trim, but offer more than the other budget competitors for the price.
- Top - Flair - The top car should have a cool motor or some other interesting, sporty characteristic.
- Performance - Neither car should be slow.
- Comfort - Both cars should be something you want to spend a lot of time in.
- Prestige - The more the better. Larry wants to show his car off, and he’d rather not be embarrassed by what his wife drives if possible.
- Budget - Reliability - The budget car should probably not break down, as while Larry is happy to work on his own car, he doesn’t want to work on Estelle’s.
- Budget - Service Costs - Same as reliability, Larry doesn’t want a super expensive upkeep on what was supposed to be a cheap car.
- Handling - Larry wants his car to be fun on back roads as well as the highway, and would prefer his wife to not be in danger of over-driving the car by mistake.
- Safety - If they die whenever they get into an accident, Larry will be upset.
- I3 motors will be an instant bin.
- The trims should not look so different they are unidentifiable as the same car.
Inspirations
These are mostly visual inspirations, so don’t engineer your car based on these.
BMW Z3
Audi TT
Ford Mustang
Chevrolet Camaro
Timeline
Rules Deliberation will end 6/17 at midnight EST.
Submissions will then open, and close on 6/24 at midnight EST.
