Supercharged
Posts: 10
Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:25 pm
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Cars: 2005 Toyota Tundra
(Tycoon) Different Marques for your company
My idea is that, when naming your car, you would also get to choose the marque under which it is sold. If all of the vehicles in that marque reach a certain threshold for a certain stat, and can hold onto that threshold (which should be above whatever the industry average is) for an extended period, then that marque gets a small bonus to desireability for consumers. For example, truck buyers might flock to Hillbilly Industrial because that marque has a really good reputation for reliability, while a family looking for a station wagon would go to TotallyNotAVolvo because of a really good reputation for safety. Obviously, you would lose this bonus very quickly if your quality in that stat ever fell.
However, in order to prevent abuse, I would also suggest that different marques require entirely different advertising campaigns, which would be expensive, and also that setting up each marque incurs some administrative costs initially as well as to keep it running.
Obviously, I don't know how the Tycoon portion will turn out to work so this idea may be completely irrelevant. But if not, I think it would be fun.