I guess throwing away the active suspension and the downforce undertray wasn’t so bad after all. Getting rid of those actually improved the greenhell laptime by some very tiny margin, but the sportiness dropped like from 102 to 96.
While I am placed pretty well on the graph, I not sure if the R1 is exciting enough to replace the Mephisto. That “old thing” is still 3 seconds faster around green hell.
Very exciting round.
Edit: I also have the suspicion that the douche factor isn’t low on the R1 
@Rk38 really knows how to make attractive brochures. Pity that just a half-dozen colors are offered on the ST-R, although the color chosen for the trim he submitted is the best one (and it looks ace in all of them!). In contrast, the two brands (Harris and Kramer) I have made for the rounds I have so far entered offer at least twice as many colors, not counting those specified by customers at extra cost - for example, the K4 trim I submitted is painted Flame Red, which is similar to HSV’s Red Hot - a bright primary red.
Also, I am in accord with everyone else that active suspension is actually unnecessary even for flagship luxury and hypercars due to the extra weight, cost and fuel consumption. The hypercar I planned to submit before I settled on the K4 did not use this component, although it did have a downforce undertray - justifiably so, though, as I needed as much downforce as possible to improve track times with so much power on tap. Other cars, like the K4, can get away with having just a fully clad flat floor, though, which costs less.
Active suspension is a wank. It adds weight, sucks up power and fuel consumption, and only really exists so you don’t scrape your beautiful splitter on a speed bump, IMHO (well, the game doesn’t really see it this way, but you know…)
Downforce undertray should only ever be used for maximum downforce applications e.g. GT racing spec cars, or when one absolutely insists on using no downforce fixtures on the top half of the body. It’s pretty damn heavy and has more drag than the other fixtures!
Yes, but that’s completely irrelevant.
you know, self flattery is most unbecoming.
The doubt was still pulsing around in Puffsters brain. Did he make the right choice? He had let Lars and Petter finish the tuning of the Peregrino, and by Zeus, they had done a proper job. He looked down on the spreadsheets again.
0-100 in 2,3
1290kg with 1293hp
They hadn’t even finished the exterior, just fitted the necessities, and still it looked pretty.
“Did I make the right choice?” Puffster asked out loud. But there was no response.
well i guess im one of the few that actually dared to go with a relatively daring color, that is not red, black, white or grey.
actually @strop how much competitor is offering color that are not from your color suggestion list?
if you can remember from the top of your head.
Five, I think.
NA V8 F-AWD race car? That’s basically an updated Nightfury. No doubt it’s stonking fast, though.
i went with silver, if that counts…
mwahahaha I gave 5 options of color Kai has the pick of the only five to be sold in Aus
Holy mother of NA engines.
Why did you go with the V8 and not V12? Weight? I mean, a - I guess - 10 liter V8 revving to 9k must have some reliability around 30, no?
The total displacement of a V12 would have been a lot less, due to dimensions, hence power output would be limited.
Oh, I see. A V8 is more like a equal length box, but I thought the non-corvette body has a longer engine compartment.
Not long enough, sadly!
Strop hit the nail on the head, higher possible displacement with V8. But I forgot this was not to be daily driver so is with 95RON, got some more tweaking potential all of a sudden 
Edit: And the engine reliability is at 49.9.
Using 98RON I pushed it to 1355hp, and lap time down to 6.36
Originally, I also planned to submit a hypercar for this round: the Armare CST-72 R. However, it was so over-engineered and full of advanced tech that I could not bring myself to submit it. Anyway, here it is:
With over 1200 bhp and loads of torque from a twin-turbo 7.2-liter V12, this would have been a serious rival to the R1; I planned to sell 500 examples annually at $240,000 each including markups. I bet Kai would have been terrified and thrilled in equal measure when the boost kicks in, particularly in a RWD monster like this one, but when I realized he already had a hypercar, I went to plan B and proposed the K4 as a replacement for Toothless. Still, I have no regrets building this thing…
b-b-b-but that’s what a supercar is all about…
but you’d be glad you didn’t, because that would lose in quite a lot of categories.
for your car 7/10
for propping up yourself in front of everyone that didn’t care 1/10
also.
##Phyton Glandict
https://gfycat.com/ifr/GargantuanPaleBaldeagle
.#shamelessplug
FFS, you don’t get marks for something you don’t submit!!! The entire point of this exercise is to submit the one thing in an attempt to appeal to the customer’s tastes.
Are you writing these kind of statements out of sheer optimism or some kind of magical belief that everybody needs to think the same way as you? Because I think I speak for everybody when I say it’s not going to make any (positive) difference to what we think and it’s not going to influence things in your favour. As I sincerely hope you’ve worked out by now, it’s actually doing the opposite.
I promise, though, my review of the car you DID submit will be as fair and unbiased as I can manage.
@JohnWaldock Let’s see now. I’ve written 7 so far. That leaves 15 to go. So, I guess they’ll come out when they come out.
I gotta say though, I think I’m possibly going to have to divide the results into two posts.
hypehypehypehypeHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE
###HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE
but it’ll be a wall off text won’t it? i’m literally gonna prepare a snack for reading this tomorrow
@koolkei, NEEDS MOAR HYPE!
As long as it doesn’t spoiler much about the other group of cars, I wouldn’t have a problem with two posts. I divided mine into three, actually.
