I think this is a good idea; the penalties imposed will ensure fairness as a non-compliant car is unlikely to come first and that, if it does win, it’s truly worth it’s first place!
Expect a second car from me, for fun, if that is alright. I built something more akin to what strop submitted, but couldn’t get the numbers to all line up. Either reliability went below 75 (WTF with 65+ on the engine!?!?!?), the cost drove north of 33k (OMG the markup!!!), or the drivability dropped to the 30s, not matter what I tried. It’s very, very close though!
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well…i [size=95]TRIED[/size] to make a revision for my car’s back end
whaddaya think?
Personal opinion, Koolkei, I’d switch the reverse and brake lights, but that’s just me. It looks cool.
Wow @oppositelock, that’s a really good looking advert! Your car looks really authentic too.
Oh dear.
An undecided package with more infamy than not, the 2002 Crossroads mid-engine city cruiser did it all wrong in all the wrong places.
While reliable and fairly drivable, this thing was thrown at the sport market with claims of great performance.
A conversation transcribed from an engineer who worked at the yet undisclosed manufacturer of the Crossroads.:
“We’ll just soup it up with a turbo!”
“Look, it’s a mid-mounted transverse inline 4. You see the problem?”
“PUT A TURBO ON IT!”
“We’re making 84 horsepower already. We just don’t have the space to…”
“Fine, fine. But listen. Put a turbo on it. In fact, make it two!”
“That’s… that’s not…”
“I’ve got a meeting. Get it done.”
Naturally, the turbo never happened. Too bad marketing had already started printing ads, boasting about their new automotive marvel. The car somehow slipped into production shortly after that.
Finally, after a series of obviously exaggerated video ads, early owners of this car would sue the company into oblivion. “Zero to a hundred in 7 seconds!” More like 11.
Some of these mystery mobiles still circuit the new car markets of Scandinavia. In Norway, you can grab a brand new one for $19200. Stripped of paperwork and badges for legal reasons, you’ll have a hard time making this your daily driver.
Well, it sure as hell does look like a great deal many cars that seem to populate Norway 
I must say I rather enjoyed putting this car together. Just looking at the stats, while I’d personally want something with just a bit more power and the interior is ghastly, this car seems great (again minus the interior) but that 50% mark-up is a killer. I wish I could’ve made a tad few adjustments to the overall shape more (but morph limitations) and added in better seats for peace of mind; Oh well.
Anyway here’s my ad:
just also want to say that fiddling around for this one has been incredibly fun. i didnt do the math but i am really looking forward to see how the scores will turn out. as the others said, the penalty system gives you much more freedom to design a car the way you want (with drugs involved or not 
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Thanks for the great feedback. So far we are looking at 17 contestants with 1.5 hours to go, which is great, really look forward to diving better into each car and get started on the writing 
Track time for benchmark car will be released later today or tomorrow latest.
I just sent you an exposition entry. I’m sure strop is pushing 350km/h with his…that Aussie rat…ermmmm…wizard(?) that he is, so it probably still won’t beat his. It was the first car I built but couldn’t meet all the requirements, so I scrapped it for the one you already saw. 
I just noticed this, sorry for not seeing earlier, but in the spreadsheet I forgot to remove the drivability>40 as I did not set it in the rules. This is my fault, really sorry about that. If you or anyone else want 24 more hours because of this it is not a problem on my behalf.
[quote=“Puffster”]
I just noticed this, sorry for not seeing earlier, but in the spreadsheet I forgot to remove the drivability>40 as I did not set it in the rules. This is my fault, really sorry about that. If you or anyone else want 24 more hours because of this it is not a problem on my behalf.[/quote]
haha well I sent you the car I was referring to already…as the expo version. It’s the one that looks more like strops car.
Lol, 350km/h from a 1.8L turbo in a car that costs 22000 w/o markup would be quite the wizardry indeed 
But I am probably going to take a big hit from the power tax…
[quote=“strop”]
Lol, 350km/h from a 1.8L turbo in a car that costs 22000 w/o markup would be quite the wizardry indeed But I am probably going to take a big hit from the power tax…[/quote]
1.8! Mine is only 1.0! And not sure where the “power tax” will kick in…I hope it won’t effect me.
Yeah, it was all the penalties that were getting me concerned:
[quote]Fuel Economy (250/consumtion)
Heavily weighted (x 1,25): …Number of cylinders (Number of cylinders x -3)
Normally weighted (x 1,00): …Running Costs (Running Costs/100 x -1), Hp Penalty ((Hp - 100)/10 x -1), Displacement Penalty (((Displacement - 1800cc)/100) x -4)
Lightly weighted: (x 0,75): …Emissions (Emissions/2 x -1)[/quote]
So I figured let’s make a 1800cc engine to avoid the displacement penalty. A turbo with the right boost and gearing will get a nice fuel economy and keeping the car a bit lighter with less seats will lose me utility, yes, but it will help the emissions. Though it’ll probably still lose heaps of points compared to the other cars, not to mention that it has 240hp so I’ll lose a massive 24 points for that! So I don’t expect it to be that competitive for the challenge itself. On the plus side it’s like 3 minutes faster than the benchmark car around Green Hell, so hopefully the tradeoff will be worth it. This was supposed to be the car for the enthusiast after all.
well then… my car is… i think… an enthusiast wannabe.
although it’s an inline 6 it’s only a 1.6l. sooooo tiny tiny pistons.
and im only making about a third of what strop is making.
also hot hatch is really not suitable to be utes
plus side is… slightly on the cheap and economical side means im pretty sure mine is competitive.
oh wait. dang. closed. meant to fix that rear taillights…
just pretend the current car that i submitted have the tailights that i posted yesterday would you puffster?? 
update: well it’s closed. might as well post my car here
im pretty sure im pretty talented at making econoshitboxes… just not sporty ones.
also, 10:32,16 on green hell