2005 Best in Class [Review 3/9]

[strop]

Airbags? What airbags?

To me, marketing ploy is the excuse. Now I can finally make something as balls-out as I want, and no executive board is going to stop me with their sensibility MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Madrias]

Ah, I may as well try putting something in on this one. Looks to be a good challenge, and I may actually be able to compete in this one.

[strop]

Come the mid-noughties, and characteristically UK 'cars banged together in a shed' company Armada Motors was enjoying a long-awaited renaissance. The most crucial of their investments proved to be the smartest one: entering the hot hatch market in earnest. The Fore 'Eagle' GTi Gen.2 of the mid 90s proved to be a smash hit, wiping away decades worth of struggling bottom line and festering debt and replacing it with a flood of sweet cash. Suddenly, Armada was on the cusp of being able to further their tech development and push into the frontiers of their original dream: the affordable supercar.

2005 was the year of the Gumpert Apollo, Porsche Carrera GT, and Bugatti Veyron. A promised new land of insanely fast, razor edged, prohibitively expensive supercars. On the other end of the car budget scale, news of the 2005 Best In Class contest was received with much anticipation and not a little heated debate. Surely this was the perfect time to debut the already overdue Fore Gen.3, complete with even newer valvetrain and fuel injection technologies? It would surely make for a strong contender across the board and show the world that Armada was growing from strength to strength.

The final decision was: Actually, no, fuck that. If the competition wanted a marketing exercise, they were going to do it properly and show the world what Armada was truly capable of. How about debuting the supercar on a budget idea?

The result is the Manta Prototype (designation: Xtream). Powered by a V8 BFT (short for Big Fucking Turbo) which produces way too much power to be considered proper, it also sports rear wheels so wide they would never have been allowed in F1. As a direct response to the styling, erm, idiosyncrasies of the Apollo, this car has real impact, real presence, evoking an immediate visceral reaction and causing the viewer to involuntarily utter: 'My word, that's ugly!'

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Go on, I dare you to disagree.

Every thing about this car was built specifically to feel as race-like as possible. Actually, that's just marketing speak for, if you bump the car, the plastic panels will probably fall off. Also, the seat's really hard and there's no air-con or radio or anything like that. Also the engine may be technically muffled but it's still Loud As Hell. As for safety, well, there's a seat belt and then good luck to you! But hey, Best In Class, right?

(Note: this is about as sporty as I can get the car, minus a few decimal points, before the car flicks off into terminal oversteer or goes a lot slower on the track because the front wheels are too wide. I mean, I could have made it even sportier, but making the car go slower around the track in order to achieve that? Hell no.)

[HighOctaneLove]

Go on, I dare you to disagree.

Strop, I like the way your car looks and I think it's a realistic looking design. Keep up the good work!

[RoyalStig]

Go on, I dare you to disagree.

Strop, I like the way your car looks and I think it's a realistic looking design. Keep up the good work!

Yeah, I actually like the front, reminds me of a Mosler.

[Madrias]

I think it looks cool. Fast, sleek, yet remaining brutal, as befitting a supercar.

[strop]

Fine, defy me why don't you all

note: I just noticed that the grille on the rear end was a modded one, but it didn't save properly. I actually wanted to use the vanilla one, channeling more of that Gumpert Apollo look. Because apparently you guys love how the Apollo looks

[BlastersPewPew]

Introducing the bane of every elderly vacationer, the sight of it as it drives in screams that "I have a bunch of kids and am about to release them on the general population", the sheer horror people feel as both sliding doors pop open and expel their hazardous contents upon the world makes a nightmare with Freddy seem like a walk in the park. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you the Dodge Carava........oh wait, no that is not right, I present to you the Evade* Entrade! Packed full of features that are sure to be broken by your little tykes in the first 20 minutes** and upholstered in a color that will show the stains created by your little munchkins for an eon***. It will get you where you need to go and back again, it will do it without being flashy, sporty, fun, enjoyable, yeah you get the point. Just take the keys and get your precious little snowflakes out of my showroom and into your new car before I add showroom damages to your invoice.......




*Division of Desert Motors, all rights reserved, for questions or comments please contact your local dealer, for complaints or recall information please write and mail a letter to the following address: the closest trash can near you.
**Warranty void if persons younger than 16 enter the car
***Should have opted for the Teflon™ seat option

[Lordred]

6 out of ?

2nd post updated with profile shots.

[conan]

Here's what I sent in.

Luton DaVive TurboWagon

[DoctorNarfy]

Here is my entry, the Shromet Mantis:

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Sometimes I Know exactly what I want to make for a contest, this was not one of those times. I just created a machine that would I would want to own. Powered by a 3.3 Liter Inline 6 Engine that makes over 300 Horsepower, and an all aluminum Body, the Shromet Mantis is a car ahead of it's time! or behind it's time, depending on who you ask..

[xABSOLUTIONx]

something went wrong with the 2nd post, just saying

[Zabhawkin]

Im working on one, hope to have it done tonight

[victorgarcia]

Garcia Motors proudly presents the EcoDrift, you guess it, our most efficient engine in the front, manual gearbox in the middle, and rear wheel drive at the back!
Nimble and agile, equiped with a engine made from 2 of our 3 cylinder citycar engines matted together, what a noise! and room for your friends to come along!
Look at his little face! he likes to shake his tail around!

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[Zabhawkin]

Submitted, You could probably guess what my targets were...