Rd1, Initial Binning
QFC38, Prelims pt1
Initial binning round. If you’ve made it here and then get knocked off, means your car was good enough to not be yeeted immediately, but it just wasn’t a good enough proposition for the host(s).
Following how Texaslav did it in his round.
17 Entries. 4 Entries will be sent to the bin from here. Those 4 will receive a semi-detailed reasoning for why they got bonked, others will receive a few lines. Time is short.
Rhania Raider Strzelecki by @happyfireballman
Let’s talk about this rather massive elephant in the room.
I see the trollcruiser and I appreciate the entry.
HOWEVER!
The recipe to a well done meme that actually manages to plow through real entries and reach the finals has to lie in:
- Design
- Getting the stats that were asked for, while committing to the meme
- Good price proposition
1 and 3 were a glorious failure, considering it does not look era correct or well detailed (even by QFC standards), and it costs 27500 automation pesos. Yes a Land Cruiser 70 exists but
A 2014 LC70 actually has 
details and tries to be period correct with how the fixtures are designed, rounded and modern.
You did get most of the stats right though, bar from sports and service costs. With $1850 of service costs annually, this is the most expensive car to run combined with the fuel economy and it’s not even close to the 2nd most expensive car to run.
Also, a fuckoff big truck like this would NEVER have a 2/2 seat setup unless it was some super expensive high spec product. Also most trucks past 90s should not have solid axles all around. Many of them started using Wishbone fronts since the 80s.
Good effort, you get a 
/10
As in for in.
Arima Cavsage by @Koviico
As an Audi connoisseur, I hate to see this go, but it has to go.
The stats are decent at first look. It does drivability right, it does comfort right, it does sport right. Very healthy stats balance. Until we looked at the drivability of other entries. This is off by a whole 15-20 points in average. What went wrong, Considering it pretty faithfully recreates a lot of Audi’s recipes for building a car, and they have some of the best drivability because of their Quattro system?
What the fuck?
Oh…
Fucking donk 21 inchers as standard that’s why. A B8 A4 came with 16-18 inches at most. You have quite monumentally fucked your chances of making it to the semis SOLELY from the handling graph shenanigans alone.
Engine is pretty decent, doesn’t need the billet crank really. Good HP/Torque curve.
I can see you shying away from some fancy suspensions due to low reliability I reckon. Here’s a tip for that, pump trim body quality.
This is probably not fine. Last time I worked on an S4 from 1999, that thing had vented discs all around. I would at least expect vented at the front.
I won’t knock it for having a 6 speed manual, because I myself am in the market for a B7/B8 generation A4/A5 with the 3.0 TDi and a manual.
Design is pretty well done, very bold and understated look. We both loved it and were down to letting it pass until we saw some of the interesting engineering choices up there. This is the only entry that is very well designed and is leaving us at the bin pile.
Anyway, decent entry, needs some work to make it a proper contender.
Clari Gén’Eta Frolage 2014 by @Vento
French cars were a bit ugly in the 00s, but they started looking pretty good by the 10s. This is not one of them.
Not to knock you for it of course, you’re a far better engineer than a designer. And so am I personally, at least for modern cars. Which is why I hide behind a collab where the other person does the brunt of the design and I add some ideas here and there or some niche design features. I suggest you do the same until you’re good enough to design a good car on your own. Remember, stealing designs and adding your own twists to it goes a long way. But don’t OUTRIGHT STEAL either.
I mean what the fuck lmao.
On to engineering. Why does it have an all steel configuration? Especially the panels are entirely untreated steel. In 2014, this is almost impossible. The environmental resistance is by far the worst in class because of this. This’d rust in 2 business days in Melbourne’s bipolar-ass weather.
Double Wishbone all around, LONGITUDINAL AWD hatchback. This just feels so wrong in so many ways. It wouldn’t have if it was done right, but if it was done right it wouldn’t be here.
Slushmatic transmission, 6 speeds too in 2014. I see what you’re doing her with the budget proposition and everything, but there’s a limit for how low you should go. This ain’t it.
Stats-wise, or at least most of the stats-wise, you have a pretty strong entry.
However realism, coherence and design takes a massive nosedive. Sorry, better luck next time.
Centara Kuiper by @Edsel
The paint is something else. Loading this in my showroom preset gave me a flashbang worse than CS:GO. I am dumbfounded by the specific color setting here but you do you.
This is another car that gets really good stats, but upon closer inspection, the engineering gets really interesting.
This costs $26000, higher end of the budget spectrum. For 26,000 automation pesos I get:
- All cast crank/rods/pistons
- A VVL that might as well not be there from how it’s functioning
- Single throttle MPEFI
- No Precat
- No differential
- Cooling flaps for some reason. IDK why it needs cooling flaps when it takes 8 seconds to 100 km/h, and the brakes could’ve used more pistons than the flaps.
- Weird usage of quality. +4 in aero, +2 in brakes, +3 in traction aids, +5 in safety. Points that you could’ve used in places where it actually matters.
- The most car.jpg looking automobile I’ve ever seen (you know it’s bad when you out-Abg the Abg).
Yeah no sorry, we couldn’t let this one pass. Initial stats looked pretty strong, but other entries were simply too coherently engineered and better designed.
That’s all the rd1 bins out.
We will be interrupting this pt1 right here for the time being as the angrycock is a dum-dum and forgot Today’s Saturday, and therefore public transport times are fucked. Unless I wanna be late at work, I gotta get off my PC right the fuck now. I will get back to this after the shift. But rest assured pt2 won’t be delayed a whole week. We expect to get done with QFC38 by this week.
I’ll be coked up with caffeine by the time I return so expect some spiciness.
