Introductions

[nialloftara]

Name: Nick Maloney

Occupation: Ferryman

Location: Rhode Island. USA

Interests: Computers, Games(physical, virtual and imageary), Cars, Literature, Space.

Vehicles Currently Owned: quarter million plus mile 1992 Toyota Corolla.

Previous vehicles: 1996 Volkswagen jetta 2.0, 1997 Volkswagen jetta 2.0, 1987 Oldsmobile delta 88 royal burgham w/ FE3 package

Dream Garage:Datsun 240, Buick GNX, AE86 Levin Corolla, FPV Typhoon GT, 1937 Oldsmobile coupe.

How did I find you? A friend was raving about the demo.

About Me: I've worked on boats since graduating college paying bills, most of what I know about cars I've learned keeping mine going. I play all kinds of games video, pen and paper, board, SCA. My favorite types are the kinds you can create a narrative story with. Total war series, Civ, Elder Scrolls, table top RPGs.

[Dareios90]

Name: Dario "Dareios90" (Dareios is the ancient greek form of my name)

Age: 24 yo (at 2014)

Occupation: Engineering Student (and/or dreamed archaeologist and/or historian, but you know, global crysis suggested that the best idea was a scientific degree and now I am "off course", no degree by now)

Location: Ancona, Italy (on the Adriatic Sea, in front of Croatia)

Interests: Reading, History, Cars, VideoGames

Vehicles Currently Owned (my parents own it but it's "my" car, I drive it every day): Alfa Romeo 147 1.6 Petrol with CNG implant (2008)

Dream Garage Vehicles: the Alfa Romeo 75 of my Girlfriend (I tried to drive it only in a parking lot...)

Previous "Guided" Vehicles (previous and current family cars) : Fiat Punto Petrol (1999) (sold) [I learnt to drive with this car), Citroen XSara Picasso Diesel (sold), Chevrolet Spark LPG (2010), Mitsubishi ASX LPG (2011)

How did you find us? Googled "car industry pc game" or something many years ago (maybe 2010) and I saw your site/YT channel, but then with no demo or no credit card owned I forgot the project, in January 2014 I re-found your YT channel and I went to your site and I immediatly bought the Supercharged Edition!

[pHanta]

Nickname: "pHanta"

Occupation: Student in software engineering

Location: Brittany, France.

Interests: Video games, computing, cars and motorsport

Vehicles Currently Owned: Renault Clio II 1.9D phase 1 (with phase 2 taillights , the car was bought used and already had them)

Dream Garage Vehicles: Honda s2000

How did you find us? Used to watch videos from youtuber FailRace, when he made a video about this game. It got me curious so I wanted to see more of it, which led me to ConeDodger240 videos, then to your videos, then to your website, where I noticed there was a free demo, so I tried and I got hooked (mainly with the scenarios part, it's a bit like a puzzle game...with engines! what's not to like ?).
I was getting more and more tempted to buy the "upgraded" pre-order, until the soundtrack was removed. I was a bit gutted, but I understand that the point was to be fairer towards the music composer. Since then I am back to pondering (I am quite horrible when it comes to decision making).

[Rossriders]

Nickname: Rossriders

Occupation: student

Location: somewhere on the US East

Intrest: Art (including but not limited to, Animation, Video games, Comics/Manga/Graphic novels, Photography, and writing), Cars, Video games, motor racing in general and so forth.

Vehicles: none at the moment

Dream garage vehicles: to many to list, to name a few; Pontiac Solstice, Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (C7), Acura NSX (NA1), Porsche 959, VW Golf R32 MK 4 and 5.

How did you find us?
A fellow car fan told me about this game, so I downloaded the demo and as of this post, been trying what I can including the scenarios, trying to get a silver at least.

About:
As of now I'm doing part time job while trying to figure out just what to do besides something obvious. While I have a lot of formal education, lets say I've just got some barriers to overcome.

To the point that as of this post, while I've played the demo a lot and been making some of my own interesting motors, I'm still on the fence to purchase the full version.

Although I may just make my mind up sooner than later, we'll see.

That said, hello everybody.

[Bergrennen]

Name: Bergrennen

Occupation: Bmw M and Porsche mechanic,garage owner,Evolve automotive reseller.

Location: Finland
Interests: I want to go faaaast...


About:

Making lot of intresting stuff,custom engine builds,car tuning and so on...

[steelmaniac]

Name: Killian Hayere, or Steelmaniac

Occupation: high-school student

Location: Brittany, France

Interests: Cars, bikes, planes, militaria, firearms

How did you find us? I don't actually remember, I think I was hanging on beamNG's forum when they mentioned this game.

Vehicles Currently Owned: Nothing yet.

Dream Garage Vehicles: Chevrolet Chevelle SS LS6 Baldwin Motion 1970, Chevrolet Impala convertible 1958, Bel air Coupe sport 1955, Ferrari F40, and a lot more cars, from the 30's to the 80's.

About: I'm a 17 year old french high-schooler. I am studying to enter the air force as a mechanic, and hopefully, in some years, become a warbird restorer/mechanic!

[SamSheepDoq]

Name: David "SamSheepDoq" Garza

Occupation: High school, yo!

Location: Bakersfield, California

Interests: God, Vehicles, Socializing, Engines, and more.

Vehicles Currently Owned: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 with the LR4 4.8L V8 (mods: AEM cold air intake, programmer, tornado (Google it), and more when I have money) paired to a 4L60-E running a 3.73 (I need a 4.10) on 33" and 16" wheels (nothing special, just standard off-road wheels)

Dream Garage Vehicles: Brace yourselves, a list is coming! *Takes deep breath*

1. 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD 8.1L
2. 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 w/ Z07 package
3. 2014 Caterham 7 175 and CSR
4. 2014 Rolls Royce Phantom
5. 2000 BMW M3 GTR
6. 2014 Ariel Atom 3
7. 2014 Ram 2500 6.7L Cummins
8. 1979 Ford F-250
9. 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454
And several others that I can't think of...

Previous Vehicles of Interest:

How did you find us? Google brought me here, now I have dreams of starting a car company.

About: I'm definitely a different kind of teenager. When you get to know me, you'll understand what I mean.

[Eyered]

Name: Daniel Lamb

Occupation: Disabled

Location: Las Vegas NV USA

Interests: Games, Programming, Vehicles, My Kids, Engines

Vehicles Currently Owned: 03 Chevy Tahoe and a Hyundai Elentra 04 I think.

Dream Garage Vehicles: Datsun 510, 2nd Gen DSM GSX

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Mitsubishi Starion 86, Mitsubishi Eclipse,

How did you find us? A Youtube video

About: Not a whole lot to say, 38 and I have 4 kids. It has kind of killed my car ambitions. I can still dream.

Something Extra: I am so exited for this game. Been playing around with the Demo. I am going to buy as soon as I am done writing this.

[ilorioc]

Name: Ilorio

Occupation: Part time student/machinist

Location: South Florida, USA

Interests: Drag Racing

Vehicles Currently Owned: 2013 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE (Mods: Intake, Long tube headers, Cam, Lifters, Pushrods, Rockers Arms, Springs, Retainers, ect... Ford 9 in w/ Detroit Locker ready to be swapped in after the stock rear end blows. 200 Shot DP, TH400 w/ MVB, and axles happening soon.)
2002 Toyota Highlander V6 (Stock,the daily)

Dream Garage Vehicles: 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle and my current Camaro both set up for dig racing.

Previous Vehicles of Interest: 2012 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, car got totaled by an idiot who ran a red light, only had it for a month.

How did you find us? Article written on Jalopnik.

[crazyeyes218]

Name: crazyeyes218 (derivation of an old nick-name)

Occupation: Bellman

Location: The Rockies (USA)

Intrest: Geology, physics, cars, tuning, video games, brewing

Vehicles: 2013 Ford Focus ST

Dream garage vehicles: Oh lord, do I have to narrow this down or what... let's see.
1. SRT Viper
2. SRT Challenger (G3 426 HEMI swap w/ roots supercharger)
3. 2013 Mustang GT500 Super Snake
4. AM DB9
5. E30 M3

How did you find us?
Believe it or not, 4chan's /o/ board. Saw a pic from the engine designer, asked for sauce, and OP delivered.

Previous vehicles of interest: Unless you call a non-M BMW interesting, none.

About:
Making a little cash while trying to get my career in the sciences jump started. And of course, coming up with many an idea for tuning and modding of current vehicles. Challenger with a MOPAR 7.0L slotted in and blown, taking a page outta Hennesy's book (lotus chassis with a leviathan motor from the states), and for the more achievable, mess around with a early 90's mustang, 351w swap + blower, for a summer vehicle.

Gamer, with a focus on RPG's, racing games (Forza 5) and now this, as I love the idea of being able to design a motor (and eventually car) from scratch, and have, almost, 100% control over every aspect of the design. And finally, I have dabbled in the art of craft brewing with, shall we say, limited success. Fun, but I need a LOT of work. Oddly enough, the same can be said about my attempts at turbocharging ingame.

[TheColoredCow]

Name:Sixten''TheColoredCow''Norberg

Occupation:None

Location: Örnsköldsvik,Sweden

Interrests: Gaming,Cooking,Cars,Racing,Aircraft

Vehicles Currently Owned: None

Dream Garage Vehicles : VW Golf Mk3, Honda CRX.

About: Classified.

How I Found You? Well i Googled For Automation when i got one of Kilrobs Videos as a Recommedation on Youtube

[strop]

Hi everyone! I've been hooked on this game ever since I preordered it, so I thought I might as well make a post.

Name: Stroppy McHorseguy (of course it's an alias!)

Occupation: Medical Doctor

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Interests: Drawing, writing, music, martial arts, le parkour, and of course motorsports

Vehicles Currently Owned: Honda Civic Vti-S MY13

Dream Garage Vehicles: Right now? I haven't the foggiest.

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Mazda Mx-5 B, Madza RX7 FD3S, Lotus Elise, Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ... basically, sporty compact budget models that punch above their weight. On the other end of the scale, I also pay lots of attention to functional and generally extinct prototypes e.g. Mazda Furai (may it Rest In Peace), Jaguar C-X75. I take guilty pleasure in salivating over scary outputs and the pursuit of the power/weight parity (e.g. Hennessy Venom, the upcoming Koenigsegg), and cars that might sooner bite your head off than go around a corner at speed.

How did you find us? I was searching Google for a game where one could build their own cars, including engine, from scratch. As you'd well know, there aren't many!

About:

Most of my life and occupation seems to be a world apart from my lifelong tendencies as a closet petrolhead. Furthermore, I drive a (mostly) sensible hatchback (with a lazy sequential shifter), mostly sensibly at that (because petrol is expensive in Australia, damnit!). I don't tune or build my own engines. But my fascination with how things work is an all encompassing thing, and since young, I found the endless pursuit of racing perfection in simulation games to be highly therapeutic.

But I was compelled to look for something that actually paid due attention to the engineering challenges of engine building when, while playing NFS: Shift 2, I 'tuned' a BMW M3 E30 to put out 1432hp to its 1040kg. There, the process of swapping out components and slapping on a turbo was as easy as pressing a button, but the moment I stopped to think about it, a rather discomfiting sensation of my sudden inability to continue suspending disbelief set in (is it even possible to fit a V10 S85 from the M6 into the E30, let alone a whacking big turbo???). It was temporarily staved off by the sheer pants-wetting exhilaration (or as much as can be achieved in a computer game) of careening around the Green Hell in 6 and a half minutes, and flying down Conrod Straight at over 360km/h. But I needed something more substantial.

My interest in the nitty-gritty has clearly prevailed, and combined with my artistic proclivities, like everybody else here I imagine, Automation's premise fulfills that craving. It does indeed have unprecedented depth in that all aspects of design has consequence, and I'm really looking forward to seeing where it all goes from here. Admittedly, since the Tycoon part isn't out yet, I'm just tinkering around to see how fast I can get that race car around the track, and just how much power I can cram under the hood, but then hey, there's always a place for flights of fancy right?

[KielEire]

Name: Kyle "Eire" LaRont

Occupation: Student

Location: Livermore, CA

Interests: History, Pyros, Women, Cars

Vehicles Currently Owned: '96 Ford Ranger

Dream Garage Vehicles: WRX STi Hatchback, 458 Italia, MP4-12C, Aventador, Camaro Z/28

Previous Vehicles of Interest: '97 Volvo V70, '99 Subaru Outback

How did you find us? Searched for a Car Building game. Good thing Google led me to this haven.

About: 18 y.o. Fire Science Student who loves to learn about History and Cars. Not much else to me really.
That saddens me a little... Oh well let's go build!

[Trollercoaster]

Name: Vladimir K.

Occupation: Engineer and part-time teaching

Location: Kaliningrad, Russia

Interests: Cars, Games, Experiments and Football

Vehicles Currently Owned: 2008 Honda Accord 2.4 i-VTEC, 1986 Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86

Dream Garage Vehicles: I have a 86... what i need more?

How did you find us? I looked for car game and managers and found this. But only recently i bought it

About: If you are on live chat you know me good that i can be very entertaining . also excuse me english i am still learning that language. Its very hard for me also my internet is very restricted here

[Manche]

Name: Santiago Mancebo

Occupation: Chemistry student/unemployed

Location: Monevideo: Uruguay

Interests: Cars, Games, Science, writing

Vehicles Currently Owned: None

Dream Garage Vehicles: too many.

How did you find us? I looked for car game and managers and found this. But only recently i bought it

About: If you are on live chat you know me good that i can be very entertaining . also excuse me english i am still learning that language. Its very hard for me also my internet is very restricted here