Lol my car is so rust proof. That, and the VTEC… Explains why my car is expensive and a little subpar in other areas. Oh man that VTEC was expensive…
[quote=“TrackpadUser”]Fairly easy to see who is running pushrods by looking at the maintenance costs 
Hopefully my car will be decent, but I doubt my ecobox will be good enough for a review.
Hopefully the sporty trim will, and the race trim will be good enough for a podium.[/quote]
I’m using dohc 16v. But choosing basic interior, helps to reduce maintenance costs also.
There are very different approaches in this category!
I wonder how the results will be!
Basic components help reliability, too - the fancy stuff is more likely to break down.
(My reliability is terrible anyway because negative quality, tho.)
Now I know for SURE the Turbo Eco was a bad idea.
Gee, didn’t think it was THAT quick in comparison.
A turbo eco in this day iant a bad idea. Back in the 90s, boy, that would have been unusual!
Because we were talking about fuel economy on the previous page [edit: where by previous I mean Page 12, apparently]: the joyously ludicrous Murina FC slushbox.
…I was actually pretty proud of this: near-optimal gearing to do 0-100 kph in second gear, near-optimal gearing to reach the aerodynamically-limited top speed in third gear, and cruising at 100 kph in top gear the engine is gently purring at 2230 RPM - just barely under peak economy RPMs. (Peak eco is 2500 RPM, which works out to 112 kph = 70 mph.)
Airbags are for squares anyway!
Sorry for the delay. I wish I had finished this earlier, but my creativity was sub-par on a few of the last days.
Anyway, here is the review, with full results in a chart in there. I exported to a PDF because I wanted to give a slightly different (read: worse), 1990s-esque formatting to it. I hope you enjoy!
Massive thanks to Lordred for helping me with the grammar errors.
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Looking forward to your feedback!
Wow! Absolutely amazing and very professionaly written and constructed! Results are interesting but, I have a question; are the two at the bottom of the table (highlighted I red) being dropped?
Very nice review, sad that the Lynx wasn’t good enough for top 5.
Hopefully the RS version will be good enough for the top 5 of sporty cars.
Yes, only those two cars got dropped, since they were badly executed version of what I was trying to avoid. All other cars were fine and within reason, so I didn’t think it was necessary to let them go.
Ok, probably better to do it like that as more cars means a more exciting BROBOT races!
Excellent job! I’m just glad to have placed somewhere in the mid-field, hopefully the sporty trim and races go better (that’s what counts the most for Armada).
Great work Leo!
Cool beans. 
I was a bit surprised by the only-two-drops, but given the small field and looking at the scores, the logic of it is pretty clear. It actually gives me a little bit of hope that I might survive the drops in the Sport bracket! (That low Prestige score, though…)
It was a proper hard fight up there. I’m happy to be in the top5 with the review, but I have to do it better next time. Maybe a 16v MPFI was too much for the 1993… the running costs are very high compared to the others. And the lack of galvanized steel panels didn’t gave me a cheap rust protection system (because Znopresk polymer were banned!)
Great review Leo. I can’t wait to see the remaining results of the competiton. 
Excellent review and great work! I never thought my car would perform that good, but I am of course very happy about it. I don’t expect similar results from my performance models, though. So I am very excited about how the challenge will turn out!
…wow, that’s weird. I just did a test, and apparently Hand Made Alu is cheaper than Fibre Glass. Heavier, but cheaper. I’d blindly assumed fiberglass would be cheaper. I guess I should give alumin*um more consideration for future builds.
(On a related for-future-build notes: it seems that fibreglass stops getting lighter at -10, not -11. Given how pressed I was for money, though, I guess that’s not a horrendous error.)*