J.E.C.B (Junior Executive Car Brawl) 14th PLACE RELEASED

[strop]

Strop will hate me for this.......

But my car seems rather bad all of a sudden

I don't get it, what am I supposed to hate you for?

EDIT: Hm, another solid performance from my car, being a bit better than average in everything except Comfort (just), Reliability (just), Practicality (quite a bit), and Safety (just). But I don't know if it's going to be winning any of the big points.

Speaking of which, I actually still do not understand practicality. How is it calculated?

Also, damn, should have remembered the significant advantages to the stats the active suspension gives:

Active Sport Springs
Semi Active Dampers

That explains why your benchmark car edges mine out in terms of drivability and quite a bit of sportiness. I have this peculiar quirk in which I refuse to use anything other than progressive springs and gas monotube dampers because they're lighter and therefore actually yield better times on the track, which isn't relevant to this challenge

[DeusExMackia]

Oooohh dear
I'm definitely below average on Drivability and Sportiness. Pretty average for comfort. Looks like I won't be getting many of those top scores.

On the other hand, Safety, Service Costs and Emissions...

[Leonardo9613]

Strop will hate me for this.......

But my car seems rather bad all of a sudden

I don't get it, what am I supposed to hate you ?

Well, last time I said that my car was bad, it ended up in second place. This time, well, it's a bit better than average on some things, a bit worse in others, so I don't know how it will do.

Also, I completely forgot about using AWD, so my car has got 295 rear tyres to tame the wheel spin a bit, which coupled with various tuning options, means that my car is pretty drive able but not that sporty.

[strop]

Ohhhh right Well, it's probably a glass-half-empty glass-half-full thing until we figure out where everybody actually lies. The mean isn't all that informative after all.

My major mistake was not using much wider wheels. I used 235s all around to lower service costs. Considering drivability and sportiness was more important, I should have gone with 255s or 265s.

On the plus side I'm getting better than average drivability and sportiness with a RWD, so I guess I've done decently on that count?

[nialloftara]

Wow, yeah based on some of those mean scores I might have brought a late 90's Lexus es300 to an S class fight...

[strop]

I do think a comfort rating of 40+ is rather suitable for a car priced 50k (well... let's guess this to be equivalent to 60-70k AUD), presuming a 250hp-ish power plant. After all, OP did benchmark the car against a Jaguar XE-S, and the stats do come out similar (except OP's benchmark car seems to be more like... Audi's answer to said XE-S )

[BlastersPewPew]

Uh oh.........my stats are rather........yeah....... I dont think I am going to do so well here.

[RoyalStig]

I'm pretty pleased with my stats, they are all around average , with one or two a little under (My MPG is waaaaay under average ). Hopefully my car will be competitive!

[Mason148]

@strop: I don't know how practicality is calculated. That's a question for Killrob but I just included it because it is an in-game stat and seemed applicable to this challenge.
Also, what do you mean by my benchmark car is more like Audi's response haha?

Anyway, I have finally sorted out the cars and now know the placings for each car.
One thing I could point out guys is that the stats are weighted so some stats are worth 6 times as much as others so bear that in mind when looking at the mean stats.
The median stats are a little more accurate in terms of how your car placed and a little more competitive compared to the mean due to a strong showing by the cars at the top.
Talking about the median stats, here they are:

Junior Executive Car Brawl Median Stats

Drivability
64

Sportiness
41.8

Comfort
50.8

Fuel Economy
33mpg (27.5 US-mpg, 8.56lt/100km)

Prestige
33.4

Reliability
70.1

50-75
3.2s

Practicality
61.84

Safety
56.3

Braking
34.8m (114.2ft)

Service Costs
$2317.84

0-62
5.6s

Top Speed
158.8mph (255.6kmh)

Quarter Mile
13.86s

Emissions
80

[DeusExMackia]

So it looks like the averages are pretty close to all the medians? That's good if you ask me.

[BlastersPewPew]

(My MPG is waaaaay under average )

Ok, that makes me feel a bit better

[strop]

Also, what do you mean by my benchmark car is more like Audi's response haha?

Purely that it's AWD, immensely driveable, and probably has loads of tech

All I can say right now is that my car is most likely to attract the executives prone to hooning and road rage >_> It's probably the equal fastest car from 0-100 and fastest outright from 80-120 (because there's only so much you can get out of 350hp), and it also probably has one of the highest top speeds. And it's probably the fastest around the track because that's just a habit of mine. As for the rest! Well.

[GenJeFT]

My car is garbage.

[DeusExMackia]

My car is garbage.

Don't worry, I don't think I'm going to fair much better!

[GenJeFT]

I think my car has a sportyness rating of less then 25 or so. I will lose on that alone even if many of my cars other stats are above average.