Introductions

[SkylineR33GTR]

Name: Rich

Occupation: Between jobs

Location: UK

Interests: Computer Games , Building PC's, XBox 360, Cars, Photography,

Car Owned: Subaru Impreza Type RA, Nissan Skyline R33GTR

Dream Garage: Metro 6R4, Escort Mk1 mexico, AE86, Nissan 2000GTR, R32GTR, R34GTR ztune, Ford GT40, AC Cobra 427, 1968 Camero Z28, Seirra RS500, Impreza 22b

How did you find us: YouTube video

[Junez]

Name: Joonas Kellokumpu

Location: Kuopio, Finland

Occupation: Mechanical engineer (student)

Interests: Cars, gaming

Vehicles Currently Owned: 1978 Opel Manta 2.4 TIC, Peugeot 406 2.0HDi -00

Dream Garage Vehicles: Mustang Fastback

Previous Vehicles: Lots of cheap shit

How did you find us: With good luck

About:

Born 1985 @ very small town in Finland.
I was interested in cars before I could walk. I started driving a car (not on public roads) in the age of 7.I actually bought my first own car when I was in 5th grade. It was badass Toyota Corolla KE20. We had lot's of fun with that car on the ice and gravel roads nearby.
I also got interested in computers and gaming when I was young, and have been playing since.
So that brings me to the world of Automation

[Ironhand]

Name: Cory

Occupation: Business Owner. Build Engines For a living.

Location: US

Interests: Computer Games , Cars,

Car Owned: 2003 SVT Mustang Cobra, 98 Expedition, 2012 Fusion

Dream Garage: More Cobras.

[sterfield]

Name: Guillaume aka "sterfield"

Occupation: Sysadmin

Location: Near Paris, France

Interests: Games (both board and video), windsurfing, snowboarding and my two kids

Vehicles Currently Owned: Citroên C4 II 1.6 HDI (French guy like french cars )

Dream Garage Vehicles: Honestly, I'm not an hardcore fan of cars, so... I don't know.

Previous vehicles : Renault Clio and Citroën Saxo

How did you find us: I've seen the Greenligh presentation, got hooked by the video about engine basics. Like I said, I'm not a fan of engines / cars, but I learned more in several hours in your game than days with my dad, fixing / repairing family cars (my dad is a quite good mechanic).

About:

Hardcore gamer on PC and console, I love "complex" games, those kinds of games with lots of options, graphs, figures, etc... The kind of games that got you hooked in its world, and you can't keep thinking of it, even when not playing it. The kind of games that other people describes as "horrible, ugly games with lots of boring figures and graphs", until you answered "you can't understand...".
Automation is in my Top 5 of this kind of games.

[Bloozed]

Name: Kevin "Bloozed"
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Occupation: Hydraulic Designer
Interests: Motorsport, Engineering, Cars, Bikes, anything with an engine that can be raced.
Vehicles Current: 97 Ford Fairmont Ghia, 94 Diahatsu Charade, Ford Fiesta Zietec, Kawasaki Z1000.
Dream Vehicles: Ducati Streetfighter, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Yamaha R6 Trackbike.
About Me: I used to be really into cars, but then dicovered bikes, I enjoy doing trackdays on my Z1000, Currently starting up a bike related business.
How I Found This: Google

I've been telling all my friends about this game, I think it is awesome.

www.pillion-in-a-million.com.au

[Arvarik]

Name: Moritz

Occupation: Sysadmin

Location: Germany, Hesse

Interests: oldschool heavy metal, doom and hard rock, guitars, cars, politics, science ...

Vehicles Currently Owned: '97 Audi A4 B5 Avant 2.8l Quattro, '83 Zündapp X25, '67 Zündapp Sport Combinette

Dream Garage Vehicles: GMC Vandura 7.4l, Audi Coupé S2, Audi RS2, Caterham, Zündapp KS175

Previous Cars: '92 Ford Escort 1.4l, '93 Renault R19 1.8l

How did you find us? Ehm... Steam Greenlight I think.

[Jazeel]

Name: Jazeel

Occupation: IT support technician (But unemployed as I am still recovering from a bike accident)

Location: Durban, South Africa

Interests: Games, cars, bikes, surfing, playing guitar and music

Vehicles Currently Owned: Had 1981 Suzuki GS 550 M Katana scrapped, still have Yamaha FZ 400R 1884 and a cg 125 that is going in a Suzuki 2 stroke frame for off-road

Dream Garage Vehicles: There are so many I would be here all night typing lol but BMW is 1 of my favorite makes

How did you find us? Was google`n for games like Street Legal Racing, and design a car engine

About:

Well I am a easy going person I love anything that moves on wheels or by motors, I am a father to a beautiful little girl who loves bike and cars as much as I do (and speed lol) she plays car games and shes only 4 and loves to ride on bikes (loves going off-road with me). I was lucky enough to find Automation while browsing on my bb and took me 2 months to get it, may I say awesome work so far, the game is very in-depth and very complex, it must be a daunting task but will be worth it in the end so please keep up the good work "DEV Team" and I can`t wait for more, I will spread the word about Automation in SA and try and help it grow, so with that I will say bye for now and can`t wait to meet every one in the community.

Regards, Jazeel

[hendricks84]

name: Michael "hendricks84" Hendricks
Location: Lost in arkansas USA
current cars: 2000 chevy silverado, 2007 honda pilot, 1979 honda cb650 cafe racer
dream cars: what ever car i make in automation!!!! i would love to build a fully tuned mitsubishi evolution x
occupation: i make the wire that goes in the belts in tires, yeh with out me no tires, no tires no cars. job security
comments: this crew has my full support anything i can do to help

[RE85]

Name: Petri Laaksonen
Occupation: Math, physics and computer science teacher
Location: Eastern Finland
Interests: Cars, quad bikes, math, science, computers, music
Vehicles Currently Owned: '12 Ford Focus Flexifuel sedan, '96 Toyota Hiace 2.4 TD van
Dream Garage Vehicles: Porsche 911 Carrera coupé (997 and/or maybe 964 or older)
Previous Cars: '05 Subaru Legacy sedan, '90 Toyota Camry sedan
How did you find us? Possibly a link on Facebook

Last spring I got really interested in alternative fuels as the fuel prices (at least here in Finland) kept on rising (it's now about 1,7 € a liter). I thought about getting a diesel car but then I found out about flexifuel cars and fuel and swapped my trusty Subaru to the cheapest new flexifuel sedan on our market. Ethanol fuel costs 1,1 € a liter.

I got a "working" plastic model engine from my wife last christmas which was fun to build but Automation seems a lot better a way to learn about engines and how they work. I have as long as I can remember been interested in cars but never really took the trouble to find out exactly how they work.

[SnipeUout]

Name: Victor

Occupation: US Navy

Location: South TX

Interests: Games, flying, vehicles, engines, engines and engines!

Vehicles Currently Owned: 2012 Evo X GSR

Dream Garage Vehicles: 1967 Camaro SS, Skyline R34, 911 Turbo

Previous Vehicles: 2003 Mustang GT, 1998 Honda Delsol

How did you find us? Google, by accident.

About me.

I spent years playing with Engine Analyzer Pro and been looking for a program like this forever. I used to love to tweek and pretend to be a company by design the engine first then running the car through Drag race analyzer. Id record the specs and data on a spreed sheet and develope the cars. It was very primitive. Automation seem like a dream come true.

[Krema90]

Pozdrav hi !

[adamd]

Name: Adam

Occupation: Games Programming Student

Location: UK

Interests: Cars, Games, Programming, Computers, Technology

Vehicles Currently Owned: Daihatsu Charade EL (Cuore L251 in most countries)

Dream Garage Vehicles: All Toyotas, Citroen 2CV Charleston, Nissan GT-R, Nissan Skyline PGC10, too many others to put here.

How did you find us? A random thread on a car forum a long time ago, don't remember exactly.

About:

Currently attending university in my final year of a Computer Games Programming course. Spend my spare time reading about engines, trying to work on cars as much as I can. Automation lets me mess around with engines without the expensive failures.

[sterfield]

Citroen 2CV Charleston

Ahaha I don't know anyone except a French that want this car.

[Joerkkeli]

Name: Joona

Occupation: IT-Specialist

Location: Finland

Interests: Cars, Games, Computers, Technology, Music and many other stuff

Vehicles Currently Owned:
Mercedes C180 -95 (W202)

Ex vehicles:
Honda Civic IV 1.5i -91 (My first car, now it rusts in pieces )
Honda CRX (gen 1.) 1.5i -86 (I will miss that speed demon)
Mazda 323 HB 1.3 -85 (Just for 2 weeks, then I got it traded to the CRX)

Dream Garage Vehicles:
Cadillac Fleetwood -73 Meteor & Miller hearse, 8.8l engine.
Dodge Charger -69 HEMI
Nissan Skyline GT-r34
Toyota AE86 (Sprinter Trueno)
Mercedes 190 2.5l Diesel superturbo (with 450+ hp)
-57 Chevy Impala
-58 Ford Fairlane

How did you find us?
Just came across this game, when I was searching about games, where you can realisically tune your vehicles engine and looks.

About:

Currently workin, and going to the military service at January 2013. If you want to know me, just ask anything. =)

[doomer]

Name: Bogdan

Occupation: taxi driver

Location: Romania

Interests: Cars, Games, Computers

Vehicles currently owned: Dacia Logan 1.6 mpi 85hp

Dream garage vehicles: Meclaren-Mercedes SLR, VW Phaeton/Audi A8, Lamborghini Murcielago

How did I find you? : google on car tycoon games

About: I don`t know