Sports Coupe Challenge

Community Challenges & Competitions
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The name should say it all, you must build a stylish and fast sports coupe with reasonable pricing and economy.

RULES

  1. Sportiness must be higher than 35
  2. Must Get more than 35MPG(UK)/9.416 l/100km/25 MPG US
  3. Max capacity: NA 4.0/Turbo 2.7l
  4. Must have 4/5 seats
  5. You can have 4 doors, just make sure it is very sleek and streamlined
  6. 4 or 6 cylinders only, NO V8/12s
  7. 0-62 mph in less than 5.8 secs
  8. No quality sliders ±10
  9. No higher than Premiun interior and Tech
  10. At least 90 competetivness in Family Sport Premium
  11. Total production cost (in Detail Stats for Medium 2 Factroy) under $35,000

Deadline
20th January 2016

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How will the cars be scored?

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Seems Simple enough, only a few questions first.

-Year Tech? I assume 2015, but I like to be sure.

-A coupe means a 2 door car, a sedan is a 4 door car, please decide which you’d like it to be.

-why the limit on interior? If we can fit it within the budget, it would be difficult, but I think it should be allowed.

-What Criteria are the cars being judged by, and will there be rewards/reviews at all?

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up that. also 2 doors sedan are not a ‘family’ by any means

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Yeah, the year is very important for this.

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Too restrictive for my liking. Coupes with 4 doors and/or back seats are not coupes IMO (I would make exception for 2+2 coupes). Limiting number of cylinders goes against my thinking about coupes as well. Sports Coupe means a two door automobile with a sporty engine and chassis, and appealing sporty aesthetics. I can understand limiting displacement for some element of competitiveness, but the rest just doesn’t make any sense to me.

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I can appreciate excluding V12s because of boost to prestige etc. (if the contest did not take into account engineering costs). Maybe the contest name is misleading, and instead it should be the “Budget Family Sport” challenge, because that’s the target demographic cited in the criteria. Budget because of the V8 exclusion too!

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i guess year is 2015

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small comment, I made a 4 door 2.0 I4 16v N/A non DI and very basic just to have a go with my motto of “rear wheels or all of them”

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A coupe is not defined by the number of doors it has, just its visual appeal and design a few four door coupes (Gran Coupes/GT) are

  1. BMW M-6 Gran Goupe
  2. Mercedes CLA Gran Cope/ Shooting Brake
  3. BMW 3/5 Series GT

the year is 1994/2004

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A coupe is not defined by the number of doors it has, just its visual appeal and design a few four door coupes (Gran Coupes/GT) are

  1. BMW M-6 Gran Goupe
  2. Mercedes CLA Gran Cope/ Shooting Brake
  3. BMW 3/5 Series GT

the year is 1994/2004

if it is a 4 door you must call it a Gran Coupe/Shooting Brake/GT.

You can now use V8s for top of the range models up to 5.0l NA no Turbocharging

Manche can you send me the files for it if you are finished
p.s. love your motto!

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I note you have referred to two BMWs in your examples. That explains a lot… They are terrible examples because BMW “coupé” tends to have convoluted identity crisis :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hmm my car now is too measly to compete as FSP contender, I may have to go for a bigger, fancier platform

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Sorry but BMW 3 / 5 GT are not coupes and especially not sporty…it is just wrong. Shooting brake is not supposed to be here either but it is debateable. Not important for the challenge I know but I can’t help myself. Get your facts straight :slight_smile:

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Quick question about fuel quality, assuming no go for ultimate, but is premium/super ok? Assuming premium until response :slight_smile:

(Btw, 95 octane is regular, and 98 is premium in Norway)

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^lol

living in a 3rd world… the regular here is 88 octane. although recently the move to 90 octane fuel has started.

only the ‘premium’ is 92, and the ‘premium plus’ is 98

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You may only use Regular or Premium unleaded as this is the norm here in the UK

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British Regular is also 95 RON & premium 97/98 RON although they are normally labelled as “Premium” and “Super”. 91 RON, labelled as “Regular” in Automation is not available here.

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my mistake