I know it’s not 100% realistic but for our purposes let’s go with that (double wishbone and multiplier would be hard to work with on grounds of not being compact and more parts). Note that Macphersons and torsion beams are in the mix too.
I do know torsion beams make it impossible to properly adjust wheel alignment as it also robs wheels of their independence, but I’m ignoring that somewhat too.
I know competition can seem tight here and any one factor may swing the vote in unpredictable ways. I would encourage one not to get too caught up in any one aspect. If your car’s relative performance suffers because you put in a trailing arm instead of a multi link, that’ll also count heavily against you.
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See, even that’s unamerican
As you will learn, this thread is insane competitive. Good enough is never good enough to rise above everybody else.
On the plus side you haven’t submitted until you PM the host.
Props to @thecarlover for contemplating a replacement for Mephisto. I hope you pull it off, but in the admittedly likely event that you cannot do so for any reason, you can always fall back on plan B and give Kai the daily driver he really wants or needs.
After all, you convinced @KLinardo (and virtually everyone else) two rounds ago that life after HSV and FPV wouldn’t be so bad after all…
I’m tempted to go the Boss 302 route and design something with a solid axle that turns to prove him wrong, but I’m pretty sure the game won’t let me do that.
I might be designing Boss’s first practical hyper car.
It looks like @KLinardo is planning to replace Mephisto with an American hypercar - and one which really handles to boot.
Frankly, I never had any intention to submit an American or Australian car for this round; I suspected that Far Eastern machinery would not light Kai’s fire like European cars would, so I swallowed my pride and submitted one of those.
Dude, STOP narrating/explaining the thread, you just repeat what KLinardo and strop said, the thread and the round are pretty long as it is.
Also, I don’t think you need to explain every design step you did. Seriously, you are getting on my nerves
OK @Sillyworld, I got the message, so I will stop restating what others have told us, but I may still give unbiased opinions on other entrants’ cars.
@HighOctaneLove may just have a winner on its hands; its proposed replacement for Mephisto is the most insane car entered in the contest so far, with an incredible top speed, mind-boggling acceleration and insane cornering grip. But why does it weigh so much even with all-carbon construction? I suspect the AWD, turbo hardware, and excess interior quality are to blame. Still, it seems to defy physics with ease, and while some styling details divide opinion, nobody will ever mistake this car for anything else.
Has he really made something so good that, despite its huge price, won’t have to be tinkered with at all? Stay tuned…
I was going to say something but I think the first thing I have to ask is this: is English your native language?
If it isn’t, then I won’t get really pedantic, plus, it’s not like I can really talk as this is a rather international forum, and English is pretty much my only language.
The other thing I have to say is, I know this is an internet forum and all, but try to read the mood a little better. We’re a pretty chill bunch and if somebody as chill as @Sillyworld feels compelled to inform you that you’re getting on his nerves, you can be guaranteed that it’s doing the same or worse to most the rest of us. To be blunt about it, that’s certainly true for me.
All communities will feel out and size up newcomers one way or another. If you try to force your way in and establish yourself as some kind of voice of authority too quickly, you’ll end up not very welcome. It takes time to accrue substance, so try easing up a bit and reading more than posting unless you think you’re really adding to the thread. Again, to be blunt, even your ‘unbiased opinions’ on each car aren’t (at least not as often as you’re posting them). Who does it benefit? Me? The creator of the car? I can tell you that it isn’t benefiting me at all, because all it seems you’re trying to do is write the plotline for my story or something. Don’t worry about doing that, that’s my job. And if you want to write something that benefits the other users in this thread, you might as well write your personal, biased opinion, if you really think your advice will change things or tell us something we don’t already know.
To sum all that up, what I’m trying to say is, participating with enthusiasm is great and all, but you still have to participate within the community. It’s no good if the thread gets tedious because it’s being drowned in a single voice.
Also in some communities all the above would have been sent via PM and posting it publicly would be considered poor form. This community’s a bit different, AFAIK it tends to be really quite upfront and transparent about these things.
Clearly it’s an alien then
On a more serious note for this round I’m channeling Kai’s (the character) unfair bias against the USA (mentioned in the brief), which will inevitably involve a few over-generalisations and factual errors. These views aren’t my own, and will cease as soon as this round is over. I apologise if this causes offence, and do continue to feel free to correct misconceptions, either fictional or real.
well shit. you just put out 2 fires… in our heeeaaaaaarrrrtttttssssss
also. i hope i’m not as obnoxious as i was when i first joined, i don’t think so, but i’m not sure.
i still posts a bit too much at times.(how do you change font size? i tried <.font size>, but it doesn’t work)
