CTC - Car Tycoon Challenge #6 - 1955 [RESULTS]

[oppositelock]

the techyear is 1970.

Is that allowed?

[Der Bayer]

Nope. I didn't receive an entry from him, so no worries.

[VicVictory]

I have an idea for what to enter for this competition, but Seishido only got founded in 1956, so closeee

Maybe they are the last cars designed by your chief engineer at his old firm before he left to join Seishido

Or alternately a "1956" model that is released in early 1955, using 1955 tech. (as in, a 1956 in label only, but the car is built as a '55)

[Reaper392]

Am I missing something very obvious, or is getting something to even qualify as a supercar quite difficult? Admittedly I haven't done a huge amount of tweaking, but the best I've managed for sportiness so far is in the high 20s (it does qualify as a supercar, but not by very much)

[HighOctaneLove]

Am I missing something very obvious, or is getting something to even qualify as a supercar quite difficult? Admittedly I haven't done a huge amount of tweaking, but the best I've managed for sportiness so far is in the high 20s (it does qualify as a supercar, but not by very much)

That makes sense since the term "supercar" wasn't even coined until the 70's with the Lamborghini Countach. The 50's and 60's were about GT's as trains were too inflexible and aeroplanes too cramped for the gentleman of means to be seen in. GT's allowed cross continent cruising at your own pace and they were elegant, powerful and classy conveyances that not many people could afford

[VicVictory]

By the same token, "hot hatches" didn't exist until what, the 80's and 90's? But very easy to make one in the 50's. minus, you know, the hatch part of it.

[HighOctaneLove]

Exactly! I see the headings as guidelines and statements-of-intent rather than rigid categories. This is why I don't really mind that people from all categories end up buying cars outside of their assigned category; This stuff happens in real life

[Slim Jim]

Am I missing something very obvious, or is getting something to even qualify as a supercar quite difficult? Admittedly I haven't done a huge amount of tweaking, but the best I've managed for sportiness so far is in the high 20s (it does qualify as a supercar, but not by very much)

Agreed. My Ferrari 250 GT "EuREPLICA" - which I did not submit - had a sportiness of 26.9. I can't think of anything more exotic/sporty for the time. The average sportiness of all 8 cars I created was 7.7.

[Der Bayer]

Building a supercar (without penalties on score) in this round requires some skill, yes. But always remember that the limits in the buyer group overview are soft limits. If you have a car with 24 sportiness it will still sell in the supercar group, but with a small penalty on the score. The further away you are from the limit, the bigger the penalty becomes and the less you will sell.

[darkjedi]

the techyear is 1970.

Is that allowed?

of course it's not allowed. That engine was just for shows. the "real" car has a completely different engine.

[GenJeFT]

The Wooden Cog Car Company presents the.

RS9001!

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The reasonably priced luxury car for the careful buyer of the 1950s.

RS stands for Road Sofa!

The Wooden Cog Car Company also proudly presents the.

Pax Americana!

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This car features a 11 liter V8 414HP Marine engine that has been re-tuned for road use. Because why must boats be the only vehicles that get all the POWA! This engine is powerful enough to propel this cars 4400lbs of MERICA to 166 miles an hour! True to its name this car has only 3 colors in it. Those colors are red, white, and blue! The bodywork is a bright and eyecatching red because the color red MUST BE LIBERATED from the dirty communist bastards! The engine is blue because its blue blooded MERICAN engineering! To top it all off all the lights are white including the indicators, because we aint no yellow bellie cowards! All with enough trunk space to fit your biggest guns! Why did we make all this!? Because MERICA! BOOM! (4th of July Fireworks display).

So that's right! Go ahead and liberate that energy trapped in that old communist dino goo and drive for freedom!

Its the 50s! Yay!

Note* Cars not actually submitted yet, they are finished, I just have not submitted them yet, will be sometime tomorrow.

[maffc]

Road Sofa, I like it

[Der Bayer]

We're at 30 entries so far with 3 days to go. This is the list so far:

• bullko x2
• Cheeseman x2
• conan x2
• darkjedi x2
• Der Bayer x2
• firegamer3 x2
• frisco557 x2
• HighOctaneLove x1 (the other one was senseless, overpriced and removed, 0 sales anyway)
• maffc x2
• mer_at x2
• NormanVauxhall x2
• oppositelock x2
• Slim Jim x2
• VicVictory x2
• Vroomvroom x2
• xwing x1

[Reaper392]

I see HighOctaneLove was going for my old tactic of pricing the car so high that one sale would get a decent profit

[VicVictory]

C'mon all ya lazy pants! Put in your entries! You wouldn't want me to win by default would you?