Would I be allowed to change my entry car, or is what I’ve submitted what I’ve submitted?
May or may not have just made 2 cars that could be mephisto replacements (SPOILER ALERT: They probably aren’t)
Given I haven’t opened it yet, send a revision. But just one. And I will only be looking at one car.
Was just wondering.
Time to start the painful choice between three cars…
I am committed to replacing Toothless… Fingers crossed it proves to be the right decision.
i am not commiitted, i am forced to…
purely because i KNOW i can’t design a proper supercar aesthetics…
i finally decided to go with a new trim of my existing phyton lineup 
stay tuned
I don’t know if I should bother building a car for this guy.
I will offer a car to him, and it will have an American V8.
I’ve never found anyone who has disliked the sound of a well-tuned American V8 engine, so hopefully Kai hasn’t been totally brainwashed by i6s and i4s.
Well mine still has a classic ford SOHC 429, Kai may not like American cars but being that he lives in Australia he may still like v8’s. Of coarse I am guessing like everybody else.
This is an Awesome challenge this is the other side of my entrant however I wanted to show what DSD can really do and how much we have learnt and improved since joining the community.
I present the DSD Saratoga available with the DSD 6 or our ford SOHC v8
After filling out factory tabs
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Regarding Kai’s unfair bias against America, which I’ll provide more detail on because while I’m being faithful to the character’s canon (I repeat, Kai isn’t my character), I’m aware some may view the conditions exclusionary and that’ll sour the challenge:
- It is nearly entirely fuelled and perpetuated by his ongoing troubles with the TSA and customs every time he enters and leaves. This is a running joke but he invariably gets in trouble and holds everybody up.
- Kai doesn’t blanket hate everything about the US. He has a weak spot for fast food. Especially McDonalds.
- Kai is quite opiniated about NASCAR. He doesn’t understand the difficulty or the nature of racing around an oval at 200mph in a 40 strong bumper to bumper pile up waiting to happen. Racing without a variety of different corners is weird.
- When it comes to cars, where the engine comes from doesn’t matter. GG’s initial cars had massive cross plane v8 blocks in them. Using an American style engine shouldn’t disadvantage you. It’s more about whether the cars can corner.
- That is to say it’s not strictly a matter of less is more etc. When it comes to the engine, more is more. But as I said in the rules, superfluous luxuries and weight aren’t condoned. Neither is using a larger body than necessary for the engine.
I understand @KLinardo’s response. Kai is petty and can be a bit of a tool about some things and a patriotic American of American can respond in one of two ways: refuse service, or try to prove him wrong. Many of the more recent muscle offerings of this decade would go a long way to doing that. It’s an interesting time.
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oh, don’t worry, I’m still following through with my Shelby Cobra / Chevy Corvette approach, just a much newer body and year than I originally planned.
Finally made up my mind. Just gonna stick with the C-Sport R.
Might show my designs either here once the winner has been decided or in the respective thread at some point.
I designed my entry with this in mind, with a focus on handling and not too much extra weight for its size. However, I used a turbo I6 on the grounds that it would give Kai more options when he wanted to tinker with the car, and I used the smallest coupe body that could accommodate such an engine.
@Darkshine5 went to the trouble of using the factory tab, but @strop stated that, due to the difficulty of calculating actual prices, such measures are unnecessary. Am I right?
but how big of an i6?
i’m using a 3L turbo i4 
because that’s what’s already in the lineup, and i just had to make a new variant.
(yes, this means i’m actually not building a new car or engine for something competitive use, which is rare )
a 1.4 ton sedan is the results
Darkshine did use the factory tab but 1) the first submission was before we concluded it was too finicky and abandoned it, and 2) that’s not his entry up there, if you read the entire post. Thus making observations about the factory tab irrelevant.
TO EVERYBODY: A reminder that I’m actually using expected retail prices and production numbers in lieu if the factory tabs and mark-up, so PLEASE include these in your PMs. If you don’t I’m going to start ignoring entries.
Just to remind you that I explicitly stated my car’s expected retail price and annual production total in my submission.
Not every bloody post in this forum is directly addressed to you.
Please remind yourself of this before you post.
EDIT: Oh, wait, I can see why you thought that last line was addressed to you. Sorry 
I assure you it was not.
We don’t seem to have a standardised way of delineating when a post that’s addressed to a specific user stops being addressed to that user. Oftentimes a post that’s addressed to one user will then go on to generally address everybody else or multiple other specific users. This was one of those times, and I will go back and amend my other post to better reflect this.
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Uh, do you mean a 427 SOHC? They made the Boss 429, but it was still an OHV motor. I’m unaware of any 429 built with SOHC heads from the factory in the US. Did Ford Australia do a thing?
@strop Time permitting, I’m going to get on my computer and try to prove Kai wrong and aim to replace his Mephisto with some kind of cross between a 2016 Shelby GT350R and 2013 GT500. Now I just have to figure it all out.
Good man, you show him!
But aiming to replace the Mephisto with that? Ooooh… it’s a bit like how I tried to sway you with a 2 seater coupe when you were looking for a 4 seater sedan. The advantages will have to be huge.
Add a little 2006 or 2017 Ford GT into that mix. (I forgot the supercar element.) Then add several hundred horsepower.