Nice review and read. Congrats to Der Bayer for winning the eco competition. I also do not expect to do well in the Sport version of this car. With hindsight I think my sports version is still rather dull.
Iām not too optimistic about the sports bracket, still canāt wait to see how it pans out though!
Great reviews, Leo! 
And I didnāt do as badly as I thought I would. Thereās (almost) hope yet! 
Thank you all for your positive feedback, it really means a lot!
Do you have any criticisms/suggestions for things that I should change/you want to see before I start dealing with the sport versions?
[quote=āLeonardo9613ā]Thank you all for your positive feedback, it really means a lot!
Do you have any criticisms/suggestions for things that I should change/you want to see before I start dealing with the sport versions?[/quote]
As the last place finisher - thank you for all the work you have put in so far. Are you eliminating us, or are you combining these results with the sport results?
If you wanted to do this just for fun, you could highlight the maximum and minimum scores for each column in the summary table, but I think itās good as-is.
Great idea, shouldnāt be too hard to do. In fact, Iāll make those changes to the eco table already and edit this post to add it.
EDIT: I remembered why I hadnāt done this before, it looks very ugly now 
. Anyway, I have highlighted the 3 best and worst, just in case.
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It may be ugly, but itās pretty awesome.
(I am deeply amused by having my scores equally split between āaverageā, āterribleā, and āgreatā.)
my car is so ānothing specialā its phenomenal g
Oh, wow - the Murina FC is the median car on Comfort and Performance. Exactly 14th out of 27. Thirteen higher, thirteen lower.
And itās a pity that my Desirability is only 9.58 - if it were between 13.89 and 27.61, the Murina FC would have two scores that were exactly third place, two scores that were exactly third from last, and two dead in the middle. My car is the first choice for practical+cheap and the last (among those not eliminated) for safe+prestigious.
(The median cars in the other stats are Pyrlixās BAN Nimbox E for Safety, tortsās Coco HS for Desirability, Tyconderoās Astana Robin 1.3 Eco S for Livability, and WoarLordās VA Cityrunner for Costs.)
To to fillup this thread so it doesnāt feel abandoned i thought i should post a pic of my sportsversion.
Thanks to Racefox for photoshopping it.
And here is the pre-season test, you can now send me the revisions for the racing cars. If your car isnāt there, Iām afraid you have been cut.
Iām confused, if my Eco car gets cut does that mean I canāt participate in the race events?
Exactly. That was the whole point of the system. If, like yours, the car had to cut costs everywhere to compensate for itās usage of fibre glass or other stuff that would clearly influence the outcome of the race, it was to be cut. This was, in my mind, a challenge for normal cars first and foremost, which just happened to go racing, not the other way around.
About the revisions, they are open from now until Monday, 17th, 20:00 UTC/GMT. I have kept the original files, so Iāll detect if you cheat (in this case, changing the suspension layout - from torsion beam to double wishbones, for example -, body and chassis materials, engine layout and materials), youāll be immediately disqualified.
So much for all that performance technology if I canāt use any of it. 
Iāll admit my car was more than likely cut because I worked from the race version backwards, 
Ah well, canāt win em all. I wish the best of luck to the competitors.
I feel pretty lucky to have made it all the way to the races - Iām looking forward to seeing how my Sport trim fared relative to the competition.
(Hmm ā¦ Iām not far off the lead pack for time and Iām right on par for tyre wear, but I have a significant fuel disadvantage. No driver errors during testing, however. Iāll have to decide how to tune it based on that.)
Made the cut, but thereās no way I can tweak that much more out of it to catch up to the front of the pack. At least wear and fuel usage are reasonable.
Hum. My car appears to suffer from relative lack of speed. Better make handling more aggressive!
EDIT: Quick question Leo, how many races are there? Just the one? And if so, is it on the AT track?
There will be 4 races. The tracklist is so secret that even I donāt know it yet.
Of course I have told Der Bayer which tracks I want. But I forgot what they are
