This would be a great scenario if they ever make it into the game
rover mg in 2000
BMW have just sold up for £10 leaving £1 billion in the pot for running the company but with wages totaling over £150,000 a week and the company turning a massive lose that wont last long
BMW took all the info on the new car design r30 (which would later become the 1 series)
With no new designs in the pipe line and no new engines to meet euro 4 emissions can you design the new mid sized car to rival the gold and focus code name RDX 60
And a range of engines to fit in it while face lifting the other current models
no easy task and for those that don’t know the rdx 60 never made it to sale in fact it never made it past design mock ups and well we all know what happened to rover
interesting to read up on tho i was only 15 - 16 when it happened and didn’t pay much attention now I’m older is amazing some of the stuff that went on
The rover 75 still lives on today as the Roewe 750 which is a highly updated Chinese version indeed the new mg6 we have seen launch in the UK is a continuation of the rdx 60 as it used the same platform the rdx60 was going to thats right the rover 75
Pictures of the rdX 60 below for those that have never seen
R30 which accorded to what i read still sits in Munich some where
All pictures and most the info from aronline which is a great sit
Yeah, I’ve already got an idea of an another scenario.
Polish automotive engineers made some great designs. They were able to create a working engine using components from two competely unrelated manufacturers, they made beautiful Syrena Sport, the Polish designers, created FSM Beskid, which was copied 10 years later by Renault as 1st gen Twingo.
It’s beginning of 1990. Poland has adopted Balcerowicz Plan, and thus, Poland became a capitalist market economy country, being the first post-communist country to do that.
You are the CEO of FSO or/and FSM (there would be three variations of scenario, in first, you would control FSO, in second, you would control FSM, in third you would control both). You have several outdated designs. You are producing FSO 1500 (Fiat 125 with Fiat 1500 internals) since 1968. You are producing 126p since 1973. You also have Polonez, which, despite being much safer than its competitors, isn’t better in other fields, and it cant compete with these competitors.
Can you design new cars to make Poland mean something on the car market?
Can you guide your company to the success?
Can you give polish cars popularity, which they deserve?
Another Scenario that would be interesting would be general motors in the early '00s. Awash in cash from high profit margin Trucks and SUVs but with out dated factories, massive beaucracy, low MPG ratings and very lowly regarded cars. Can you fix GM’s dismal cars without diluting profits from the SUVs before gas prices go up?
The MGR scenario sounds great! However, the whole history of that is so interesting that several time periods could be considered, like the British Leyland era.
Something along the lines of the Chrysler woes on the 70s could be interesting as well, with their financial problems and the divesting of the Europe division, which ended in the hands of Peugeot. Or maybe NSU in the 60s, with the advanced but troublesome Ro80 which brought the company to the verge of bankrupcy followed by a VW takeover. Or maybe Citroen in the late 70s, which was absorbed by Peugeot in the middle of big financial problems. Or American Motors, or…
Or maybe one where you take control over Troll (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28automobile%29) the only Norwegian car manufactorer, that never got out into the world, you take over before 1958 where they go bankrupt, can you save the company, and make Norway a car manufacturer?
You’re the head of an American car company–Ford, GM, Chrysler, AMC, doesn’t really matter which.
It’s 1973. The OPEC oil embargo just started. The Japanese are making inroads. They’re daring to sell cars that get great gas mileage AND start every morning. Get your act together before the Japanese erode your market share and you’re made the laughingstock of the automotive world. You need smaller cars with better mileage and you need 'em yesterday.
You’re the head of an American car company–Ford, GM, Chrysler, AMC, doesn’t really matter which.
It’s 1973. The OPEC oil embargo just started. The Japanese are making inroads. They’re daring to sell cars that get great gas mileage AND start every morning. Get your act together before the Japanese erode your market share and you’re made the laughingstock of the automotive world. You need smaller cars with better mileage and you need 'em yesterday.[/quote]
and making large engines with barely any HP in nearly 2 ton cars… is not the right way has had a few too many oil crisis cars, like Mustang II and the Buick, which originally had a 4.9L V8… pushing out massive 140hp XD
However, the whole history of that is so interesting that several time periods could be considered, like the British Leyland era.
