Also, the quality range (from +7 to -3) offers plenty of freedom. However, I would not want to use any negative quality or excessive positive quality, so as to balance engineering time and reliability.
Cars will be scored almost the same way as before with a few differences
Sportiness will be doubled
A turbo will count in the score as a 5 mark item (points is the unit of the final amount)
So does this challenge favor turbocharged cars? I plan on submitting one.
Also, with the emphasis on sportiness, I will make my entry as exciting to drive as possible. Hence my decision to use a six-speed manual gearboxā¦ for old timesā sake.
this challenge does favour turbos and I used a 7 speed double clutch in my āmodelā entry (it broke automation with āonlyā 350 bhp)
Giving my car a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox actually made it more competitiveā¦ and decreased the 0-60 time to 4 seconds exactly. However, I will not submit it until the rules have been finalized.
Is there a deadline or is that in the works?
the deadline is 1st of August so you all have the entire month to perfect your cars.
So how was this scored again?
the same way that the last challenge was scored but you get 5 marks for a turbo car and sportiness gets doubled.
iām asking for the first one. I do remember something about you building a base car and judging upon that and Iām asking how exactly was this scored, can you show us the calculations or something?
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i still have the post up near the top of this forum.
Would like to participate, but what happened to my last contribution? Posted ad and sent pm with the car, but not mentioned in scoring card?
Same thing happened to me.
As I said when I posted the scores, my hard drive failed midway through judging and, because I had the names of the cars written in very crude abbreviations on my typewriter, only 11 actually got through successfully.
Ok, but how was it scored? Can you show us how was is weighted or something? Quite simpke really 
If I do not know why I failed and where can I improve, why would I enter another challengeā¦
Now, I understand that you would need some extra time when your computer crashed to restore everything, and would gladly wait a bit longer for results and resend my contribution if needed. All cars sent by pm are stored there as well btw.
I would even settle for just knowing what my score wouldāve been, as I spent a decent amount of time and energy on the car since I liked the challenge, and believe my contribution would have done quite well. Instead you rush completion and leave some participants out which isnāt a good way to keep us coming back.
And now I sound like an anal-retentive ass that just complains which is another part I donāt like. I want to be positive, have fun and spread the love for the game, not complain about past events. But I would prefer if you either include all participants or begin from scratch on part 1 as this bugged me quite a lot.
I do not mean this as a personal assault and I fully understand it is rough when your computer goes down. It is meant also as a kudos as I really liked the challenge, if not I wouldnāt have bothered writing this on my mobile phone. If you want this and future challenges to go from good to great, it is better to be thorough and take your time than rush it. As far as Iāve made out, most of us prefer this over quickies.
Tl;dr: please finish previous challenge fully before starting the next one 
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Absolutely, why have a quickie when you can take your time? 
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wrong focus buddy. youāre looking at the wrong placeā¦
We have a whole month to sort out our entries, so take your timeā¦
well, the downfall of your car was its engine, it was too big for the power it was making (for the era that your car was set it 150bhp would have easily come out of a 1.8 naturally aspirated inlne 4 rather than a hulking great 2.3 v6. Your car also did not have the looks that I was looking for, it was understated but bland and that set the looks back, add to the fact that your car is not the cheapest of the lot and you get a pretty low scorer, for instance my base car that scores 100 points to give the multiplyer for the points was in the same category as yours and mine was a heavy estate.