Out of Africa Challenge [Final Results]

[Lordred]

Hey now guys, dont give away all the good stuff till he has at least scored the cars

[Tycondero]

Hey now guys, dont give away all the good stuff till he has at least scored the cars

It's fine. You may all speculate. People don't know the weight of each parameter anyway. Also don't forget that if you scored around the average results, you will have an average car.

[Packbat]

Well, I'm near or above average in every stat ... including production cost. I'm guessing midfield finish.

[Urbanliner]

Uhh... Why is everyone getting high Utility score? I'm only getting around 20 or so...

[Packbat]

I believe it comes down to picking a ladder chassis.

[Lordred]

Ladder does indeed help with that.

[BlastersPewPew]

I believe it comes down to picking a ladder chassis.

This, the unibody chassis is NOT always the best for all situations, in a 4x4 (or any utility type vehicle) you want an actual frame under you instead of the cars body taking all the abuse, it is simply better suited for various demands that will be placed on the vehicle, a unibody chassis just cant compare here.

[Urbanliner]

Yep, guess I need to stop using monocoque like if it is an abnormal thing to not do so.

[BlastersPewPew]

And I should stop using ladder frames, drum brakes and solid axles in my builds But hey, I dont care for the "modern" stuff so much, I like the simplicity and reliability of solid axles and drums (HAH!! Ok those arent simple, hate changing shoes.).

[Urbanliner]

Drums are still viable in compact cars as rear brakes tho

[BlastersPewPew]

Oh yes and I use them quite often!! I just wish we had (maybe in the future?) options for drum WIDTH as well, that can make a huge difference in braking performance as well, truck brakes were generally SUPER wide compared to a car.

[Lordred]

(HAH!! Ok those arent simple, hate changing shoes.).

It isn't all that bad [sproing] blast where did that spring fly off too. Oh ya, Drums are just as fun as I remember

[BlastersPewPew]

Or then realizing that the pin pulled through the retainer and you need to get new ones of those as well, LPT: always put new hardware on (springs, retainers, pins) when installing the shoes, oh and dont forget to grease the star wheel and the friction points for the shoes.

[Leonardo9613]

After seeing that the price was an important factor, I wonder: was it necessary to give a hard price limit then?
In my head, if there is a hard price limit, especially one this low, it shouldn't be considered as a valid stat once again.

Some of you might know that I wrote down the calculations for conan's challenge and, in that, the prices give a boost or a penalty to the score. Basically, if a car was 10% cheaper than average, it got a 10% bonus in the final score. Because of that, there was no hard limit on price, people were free to make whatever they felt was appropriate for the class. NormanVauxhall made a basic, cheap car, whereas Tycondero made a premium, semi-luxury car, and both got into the top 4.

With that being said, I used up all of the budget when making my car, resulting in total costs of $5998.01, with 77.8 off-road, 126.51 utility, just $851.79 service costs and a bad fuel economy of 11.5l/100km

and @BlastersPewPew, I used OHV, a ladder frame, solid coil rear suspension and un-rust proof steel, all of which, apart from the crap materials, helped with those stats.

[BlastersPewPew]

I also used OHV, ladder, solid coil rear but used corrosion resistant steel for the frame. I needed that badly on my car since it is...........a car, not a true 4x4. My utility is close to the average and am rather surprised about that, I figured the 4x4s would rip me apart in that stat (as yours does Leo) but as it is an average Urbanliner's super low utility probably skewed the average down quite a bit.