1996-2001 Tokis GlowStik
A Strangely named Japanese subcompact hatchback (remake of a car i made 2 years ago)
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The different stylings on each body type all look really good! Very nice work and an inspirational design, imo.
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Here is something I have been working on, the 2009 production model of the earlier concept Van Zandt Avant. An eco-friendly and economical car built for the daily commute, the routine go-gets, and the occasional outing.
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2006 Yamaguchi Tesuryo
Beats walking.
Cheap and reliable.
Not too bad at cornering.
Everything you can expect from a car in this class and price range.
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2024 Tartan Tripoli (in 5-door guise here), your standard economy long hatch AKA Škoda Octavia rival.
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Ioniq 6 reimagined are the vibes I’m getting
1988-95 STRENUS SYLPHIDE
To start with, what is a STRENUS???
Well, some people may remember this thread:
The lack of brands on the “affordable, emotional” side made me think. There’s room for one. Also, I have thought a lot about how A&D survived some of the toughest times (mainly after WW2, 70s oil crisis and the waning relevance of small scale manufacturers in the 80s and 90s)…
Enter Strenus. It’s not really supposed to be a budget brand from A&D either. I think of it more like a cross ownership like the VW-Porsche relations in the older days, where I think Porsche was the largest shareholder in VW/VAG, and VW the largest shareholder in Porsche. Also, since there’s sort of part of the lore that A&D was in trouble by the 80s, I think I want to fuse them closer by then.
BUT… I have nothing but vague ideas (more or less the ones I am giving you) about the backstory which is one of the reasons why I don’t want an actual thread yet. The other one? Eh…
I kind of want to make V4 engines a thing of this brand, but until we get the small engine DLC, which seems to be far away still as I have understood it, there will be flat 4 engines in place for them. So, to not have to wipe and rewrite too much of the history, I don’t bother with starting too much of a thread just yet.
But anyway. The Sylphide was a rather typical late 80s C-segment car, and a descendant to the first Strenus, the 1953 Strenus 1100.
Semi quirky styling and some oddball engineering made it stand out from the crowd a bit, but it was still not too weird to be accepted by Mr. (or Mrs.?) Average. This is a 1.5 GL, kind of a mid range version, powered by a 1498 cc, 78 hp engine. The top of the range version? The HT4, a homologation special for rally, with almost three times that power output. But that’s a story for another time.
The Sylphide was only available with one body style, this 5 door hatchback, and was built relatively unchanged until 1995.
Even on the inside, it was obvious that Strenus tried to stand out from the crowd.
Playful upholstery patterns and digital instrumentation made the car feel a bit more than just your average 80s hatchback, despite acres of the typical dark plastics of the era.
The rear seat could be split and folded for maximum versatility, which probably was needed since the luggage compartment weren’t all that big. The headrests were designed to impair visibility as little as possible.
Well, there you had a little story about Strenus, and the Sylphide, and I hope it was enjoyable enough despite me not really knowing in detail what I should do with the brand just yet…
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2024 Apex Atym (in GXe trim, high trim with two tone), a tiny (3,7m long) A-segment city car EV that rivals the likes of the Fiat 500 electric or Hyundai Inster, although being strictly a 3-door. Uses an SUV body but I think it comes across well that it’s meant as just a very boxy hatchback. (Rest of the pictures are in the drop down)
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1989 AMS Abella 1.2i 16v
This is the entry-level trim on which the range-topping 1.6is (originally made for HHF) was based. There’s no aerokit here, but with 50 fewer horsepower and 400cc less displacement, it doesn’t need it. And like all other trims, it accepts regular unleaded without any complaints.
Retailing for just $11.8k AMU, you got a basic cassette tape stereo, 13" steel wheels (with wheel trims) wrapped in low-rolling-resistance tires, smaller brakes (solid discs up front and drums in the rear) and plastic bumpers, as opposed to the higher-end stereo, 14" alloy wheels, 4-wheel disc brakes, and color-coded bumpers with fog lamps (all of which were at least optional on the other trim levels) - but you still had air-conditioning as standard.
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Wow, I have come a long way since this.
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I heard Smart was gonna bring back the ForTwo within a few years, so I got inspired to try and make a modern Smart ForTwo/Toyota iQ style car. Challenge in that there aren’t many especially modern bodies in the game you could use for this, but I think I brought this 90’s body to date. Here’s the Apex Astral.
(Most of the pictures incl. interior shots are in the drop down) Smack dab in between the (latest generation) ForTwo and iQ in terms of size at 2,88m long, the Astral just like almost all Apex vehicles is built with a strong steel chassis with composite panels on top. The Astral in it’s top trim (pictured) uses an 87hp/121nm 1,1 naturally aspirated three cylinder engine with variable timing connected to a CVT, making zipping in and out of gaps in traffic an ease.
Apex already builds a rear engined B-segment hatchback as well as a small rear engined sports car, so they out of all my brands make sense for building a rear engined city car like this with just a shortening of that same platform. The interior features a removable gate between the trunk area and the cockpit, in case you want to carry longer items by folding the front passenger seat down.
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i don’t know what this is. the front is very heavily taken from the fisker karma, the rest is sort of just. there. it’s very shitty, 1.6L EcoCrap with a 5 speed auto, suspension from a cruise liner and some really terrible brakes (not helped by abs).
collectively it took me about a year, mainly because of the fact that i haven’t played this game at all since July of 2024. and even then it was brief.
also yes hello i’m not dead and the automation body guide will be back!! as soon as i remember how to be good at this game again
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Good to see you back
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