For an interior-only challenge, I’d recommend that a base car be provided, with the engineering and exterior design fixed - neither of those two should be allowed to be modified in any way.
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I agree.
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Do we want to try a test? Cause I have a late 60s muscle car that I have been MacGyvering together just now that could be a test mule for an interior comp.
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Sounds good to me.
I would tend to agree, but how is it different from posting car adverts?
Judging would be mostly subjective, but that’s no different from exterior design. I would evaluate it not just for form - colors, thematic cohesion, plus whether it just plain looks good to me - but with an eye to function. For example, recently I saw an advert featuring hard and protrusive door latches right where the driver’s elbow wants to be. I’ve seen lots where rear legroom just…isn’t. Storage space is always welcome…
I can see a few ways to do it:
- One body, one engineering, one exterior, you make interior to match existing design language. That Bombardier, for example.
- One body, one engineering, you make exterior and interior with your own design language.
- Engineering and stats simply ignored.
- Take an older existing .car (with an interior) and remake it in a new generation to existing design language.
Thoughts?
I like the idea about reviewing the host car. Also, an interior challenge would have to have a good exterior design so that it can be synchronized with the enterior.
Loving both ideas for sure.
- for sure.
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Yep, #1.
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#1
I wonder if a more complex, heavier-styled exterior would actually be easier to design to than a simpler, more ambiguous one? IMO, thematic and color harmony with exterior elements should be a main factor in judging criteria.
@xsneakyxsimx - do you want to run this one? I would, but I’m about to launch a pilot/trial/first run of Fleet Allocation Challenge and don’t want to bite off more than I can chew, especially since I’ve never hosted before.
On the other hand, if I don’t run it, I’ll be tempted to enter it, and that might be even worse.
I could probably whip up some basic rules for this if people are interested.
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I say go for it. If I had won csc I was going to do the next round as an interior only challenge. So in lieu of that I think you should do it
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Yo.
I am actually willing to take on a pilot run of Reverse review challenge since I find the concept rather interesting. Are you OK with that?
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I second this.
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I was literally thinking of the reverse review thing when i found this thread. I say go for it.
Well… yes and no. Yes, feel free to enjoy my ideas, in general. No, I wanted to do it first, in part because someone else is already doing my other idea. The Fleet Allocation Challenge is being tried out over DM and I think we’re down to one person other than myself, so not sure where that’ll go. Meanwhile, forum admin has suggested to me to lay low until people forget about my hissy fit in the previous CSR, so that folks’ll be more receptive to my ideas… but at the same time, they seem to have some traction already… I don’t know. I hesitate to start a new thread to this effect, anyway. I won’t stop or be annoyed if you do.
Or if one of the vehicles I listed in my DM sounded interesting enough to you, you might run the challenge with one of them?
Yes, just asking since you seemed to be fine with someone kicking off the other challenge instead of you. I am not the one that will steal other people’s ideas if they aren’t comfortable with it, so I’ll let you kick it off yourself then.