Since nobody did object against me hosting the TMCC21, despite giving the chance, I want to welcome you to…
TMCC 21 - THE AVERAGE FAMILY!
BRIEF
SOMEWHERE IN SWEDEN
JANUARY 1997
Our film team is currently looking for the chariot of choice for the main characters in the upcoming sitcom, “Familjen Medelsvensson” (Could be translated into “The Average Joe family” I guess), about a “regular” (well, maybe, maybe not) family.
STIG SVENSSON, 49 years old
The father. A cheapskate, besserwisser, and (according to himself) world champion in everything from taking out the trash to building Apollo rockets. Of course, his tendency to overrate his skills puts him in hilarious situations in every episode.
INGER SVENSSON, 45 years old
The mother. Overly patient with both Stig and the three kids, until she have had enough and snaps. Most often the one that has to save the day when Stig has done something stupid, despite his attempts to explain that she does not understand anything.
LINDA SVENSSON, 16 years old
The usual rude and arrogant teenager, an expert at doing…teenager stuff. Loud, and totally unwilling to obey any rules at all.
ANNA SVENSSON, 14 years old
The quiet middle child that mostly thinks that her family is embarassing and just wants to hide somewhere far from them.
SAMUEL SVENSSON, 11 years old
The little rascal of the family, mostly busy with doing pranks that…never ends well, rather ends with unfortunate disasters.
THE CAR?
Don’t believe for a moment that the film team is looking for a shiny, brand new Volvo 850 or Saab 9000. As the cheapskate the father is, the car they are looking for is a somewhat worn everyday hero from the 70s or 80s. Not newer than 10 years, which at the moment of the filming means 1987 or older. Also, no 60s cars since they are reaching classic status at the moment, so 1970-87 it is. That allows for comical breakdowns every now and then. Also, the car needs to be practical, to suit the family’s needs, and also to fit in some of the scenes. Are you the one that has the car they are looking for?
HARD RULES
NAMING CONVENTION, VEHICLE MODEL/TRIM: TMCC21 - username / Name of your vehicle.
NAMING CONVENTION, ENGINE FAMILY/VARIANT: TMCC21 - username / Name of your engine
YEAR, VEHICLE: Trim 1970-87. Model can be older.
YEAR, ENGINE: Variant not newer than the vehicle trim year. Family can be older.
FUEL: For the sake of fairness, either regular leaded or regular unleaded.
CATS/MUFFLERS: Cats allowed but not required. At least one muffler required.
TRANSMISSION: No preferrence between automatic or manual. Advanced auto banned.
BODYSTYLE: Preferred bodystyles are 5 door wagon or 5 door liftback. Other allowed body styles are MPVs, SUVs and passenger vans (as long as they have rear doors), but they will be put at a disadvantage due to not being as “typical” family cars back then. No other body styles allowed (including 3 door wagons/hatchbacks).
SEATING: The family has three kids, so it needs at least five full seats. More seats are allowed if the body can take them, either as jump seats or full seats.
INTERIORS: Allowed, but not needed and will not be judged (how exciting were they in family cars of this era anyway?)
MAXIMUM ET, TRIM: 120
MAXIMUM ET, ENGINE: 120
MAXIMUM COST: 25 000
SOFT RULES
SIZE: Preferrably somewhere in the C, D or E segment of european car classifications. No hard limits but use common sense. A VW Polo is too small and an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser too big.
ADVANCED TRIM SETTINGS: Allowed, but if they are getting silly it’s my right to bin the car. Again, use common sense.
ENGINEERING: No hard realism rules, but obvious meme cars, shitty engineering or minmaxing gives me the right to bin the car.
LICENSE PLATES: I would prefer euro sized plates with the texture set to a plain white colour. Why? Since the Swedish plate mod in the game is way too new, 2019 and later plate. But I won’t bin anyone that has the “wrong” plates on the car, though I would prefer it done this way.
QUALITY SLIDERS: Used with moderation, it is allowed. -1 interior quality in a low budget car is of course perfectly fine. Not -15 everything to be able to fit a twin turbo V10 in your car.
PRIORITIES
STYLING
After all, the car has to look convincing on TV. Yeah, convincing. This is not a beauty contest, something that looks like a Jaguar E-type does not belong in this show. If it looks like a typical 70s/80s family car, it’s good. If it has some nice details and/or wear and tear that shows that it is not a new car, even better. Up to a point. It should still be street legal, so headlights falling out, doors that is attached to the car with duct tape etc. is of course a no-no.
PRACTICALITY, UTILITY
A reoccuring gag will be the car being filled up with junk for one reason or another, so space is needed. It might even be towing a caravan at some point (but since tow ratings are a bit borked I won’t care about them, only the utility stat in itself).
PURCHASE PRICE
After all, dad is a cheapskate.
COMFORT, DRIVEABILITY
It should be suitable as a family car after all, it is not supposed to be a trackday toy.
SAFETY
It is not supposed to kill the family either.
FUEL ECONOMY
Dad is a cheapskate, once again, but accepts that an old car might gulp more fuel than a new one.
RELIABILITY
Breakdowns are a part of everything, sure, but on TV they are staged. Having the car broken down for real constantly will make things harder for the team. Also, a car too unreliable would probably not have survived this long.
SERVICE COSTS
Irrelevant for the film team maybe, but still, it would be unrealistic to drive around in something they would not afford to service.
OFFROAD
Taking “shortcuts” after bad roads sometimes is part of the script, it is good if the car at least can handle it somewhat before it gets stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Rules can be discussed until 3 PM (GMT) the 1st of september, then submissions will start.
Deadline (in case nothing happens) - 3 PM (GMT) the 15th of september. Before that I want the .car file sent via DM and a description of the car posted in the thread.
In case the engine designer update will drop before that, deadline will be extended to 3 PM (GMT) the 22nd of september, and ONE resubmission will be allowed.
Maybe a little more inspo (even if it’s not supposed to be a copy of this). Sorry, not sorry for the language of bork.
