Introductions

[Daffyflyer]

Also as a sidenote, When working in the garage to restore my old Minis I either listen to The Clash or covers/remixes of Sonic the Hedgehog songs and take regular breaks for a cuppa tea. My first check of the dev livestream and the first thing I hear is sonic music playing and one of the devs say "Back in a mo, going for a cuppa tea". I feel this game is in very safe hands

Aha! That's classic! I do indeed listen to video game music covers and drink copious amounts of tea (and coffee)

[Wurzelsepp29]

Name: David Leitl

Occupation: Student, Business Informatics

Location: Wielenbach, Bavaria, Germany

Interests: Boats (Catamaran-sailing), PC, Cars

Vehicles Currently Owned: Audi A1 1.4TFSI (122HP)

Dream Garage Vehicles: Audi RS5, Caterham Super7

How did you find us? Post in another forum about your fantastic game

About: I'm 20 years old and a student of business informatics. I'm also interested in mechanics and technical and tried out "Car Tycoon" but it sucks Want to play something with more technical aspects on the frontend. I have some knowledge about the new audi engines and models and want to rebuild some of them in your game. Preorder has been done, so please release the GAME!!!

[Hachon]

Interest: Computer gaming, music, cars, motorcycles, beer and whisky.

A short CV:

I have worked in the auto-industry for almost 14 years.
Started out as a "car washer" at Ford at 1998.
Started as an automechanic at Mercedes-Benz at 1999.
Worked as a service advisor at Mercedes Benz from 2001-2004
Worked as a warranty advisor at Mercedes-Benz from 2004-2007
Worked as a warranty manager at Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge from 2008-2011
And as of June 2011 I work as a warranty manager at Kia Motors Corporation.

Wheels: 2010 Kia Cee'd and an ER6-N 2008.

[Oogle]

Name: Mike "No your not getting my last name"

Location: O'Fallon Illinois

Interests: Games, Programming, Cars, Graphics, and film

Vehicles Currently Owned: 1997 Chevy Silverado

Dream Garage Vehicles: Morgan Aero Coupe, Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche 911 GT2, Porsche 959, Ferrari 458, Ferrari 430,
Lamborghini Miura, Lamborghini Countach, Mitsubishi Lancer 8, Lancia Stratos, McLaren F1, Ford GT, thats all I can think of
so far.

How did you find us? Well, we are us, but how did u find us? Google, facebook, wikipedia etc?
Moddb

About:
I'm a graphic artist, I love Photoshop and hope to go into computer animation and do movies when I graduate. I love cars one of my favorite spots to be at in the local area is a classic car Museum/Dealer. I love the smell of exhaust When it comes from properly maintained cars not crappy cars with an oil issue. That's all that's important.

[AutoHappiness]

Name: Lance

Location: Malaysia

Interests: Music,Cars, Food, Anime (once in a while,only one)

Dream Garage Vehicles: 1960s Mini, Lambo Countach, Toyota Hilux (Le Indestructible)

How did you find us?: NFSCars

About:
I have been looking up and down for something like Automation.
It's the most unique idea I've seen and I love cars so it's a match made in heaven!
I watch Top Gear every week.
I also make music every once in a while.

[KYHachi]

Name: Grant

Occupation: ESL Tutor

Location: Kentucky

Interests: Gaming, Cars, Japan, and any combination thereof

Vehicles Currently Owned: 1986 Toyota Corolla GT-S (AE86) - Autocrosser Project
1985 Toyota MR2 - 20V Silvertop Project
1987 Toyota MR2 - DD Project

Dream Garage Vehicles: R32 and R34 Skyline, S15 Silvia, Isuzu Bellett GT-R, S30Z, Mk.I/II Escort, Sierra Cosworth RS500, JZA70 Supra, JZX90 MarkII/Chaser/Cresta, RA21 Celica...I could keep going for far longer than is probably prudent.

Previous Vehicles of Interest: My current vehicles are actually also my entire vehicle history, sooo...no.

How did you find us? I friend randomly sent me to this site sometime last year. I've lurked for a while, then suddenly I get back from some time in Tokyo and there's demo release dates and awesomeness. So here I am. ^^

About:

Hi, everybody! I'm Grant and I'm terrible at self introductions! Ummm...I'm 22, an ESL tutor working exclusively with Japanese clients, and I get really, really nerdy about my cars. Which is what brings me here. My particularly field of "expertise" if you can call it that, is 1980's JDM, particularly, as you might be able to guess by my car history, Toyotas. I love me some 4AGE. Anyway, super excited to be here and I cant wait to see the game come together, not to mention get my hands on the engine builder demo. よろしく！

[IMADreamer]

Name:Jason

Occupation: Memorialist/auto journalist

Location: Illinois, the middle of no where part

Interests: Cars and racing, classic agricultural equipment, and building and tuning cars

Vehicles Currently Owned: Chevy Cobalt SS Supercharged, just sold a week ago my 2006 Corvette C6 slightly modded.

Dream Garage Vehicles: 71 Dodge Challenger 440 modern suspension, Lamborghini Avendador

About: Life long car guy, drag racer, and car tuner. However as I age it seems I'm doing less and less of the fun stuff. I love working on things, building, and creating. Whether it be my hobby of scratch building 1/16 scale farm equipment or wrenching on a project car.

My love for cars led me to starting my own web site. I saw guys on TV, in magazines, and such driving all these awesome cars and writing about them and getting paid to do so. Which led me to think to myself, I could do that. So I set out to do that. So far so go. Turns out I kind of suck at writing but am never at a loss for words so I surrounded myself with people who could make sure I don't look like a complete fool. My friends are fantastic like that which brings me to my last point which is I'm fiercely loyal to my friends. Which brings me to a bit of a motto of mine. All the toys in the world don't matter if you don't have great friends to share the experiences with.

I look forward to being a part of this community and can't wait to try out Automation!

[Fr34k]

Name: Anton Stratiev

Occupation: Student (power engineering)

Lives: Sofia, Bulgaria

Drives: Nothing at the moment. Planing to get along with a e36 and putting some work to it (performance) and some nice paint (black) + big wheels. Not a drift fan tbh.

How did I find you? A friend linked me quite a while ago, at first i didnt put too much attention to it but now it all looks very nice! Keep up the good work!

[accent]

Name: Tuukka

Occupation: Student (Graphic design)

Location: Finland

Vehicles Currently Owned: 1992 Ford Escort/Orion (I'm confused, it says Escort on the papers but It's a saloon), 1.8 Zetec engine

Dream Garage Vehicles: Lotus Esprit, any legendary WRC rally car, Lamborghini Countach, old Ferraris

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Had an older Escort that rusted away, was fun to drive though after most of it's exhaust pipe, muffler included, mysteriously disappeared...

Found out about Automation when I was playing Detroit and thought that somebody should make a modern game like this. Googled around a bit and here I am.

[DarthReven]

Name: "Darth" Brandon Cook "Reven"

Occupation: Student going into auto mechanics and eventually diesel

Location: Canada...eh?

Currently owned: 1993 Ford Thunderbird LX 3.8 V6 OHV with a 4 speed Automatic: currently restoring it to its former glory and im almost done , considering an engine swap for a 5.0L V8

Dream Garage Vehicles: Ford shelby GT 500 coupe, Ferrari Italia, Ferrari Enzo.

I found out about automation on youtube looking for videos of car company/ car designer tycoon games and i found automation as one and it looks absolutely awesome i cant wait till it's done.

[rawromg]

Greetings, fellow automators.

[Skattershot]

Name: Walter aka "Skat" to my friends

Occupation: Project Management

Location: Dallas, TX
Interests: Games, Comics, Standard "Fanboy" stuff

Vehicles Currently Owned: '89 Olds 88,'89 Chrys. New Yorker, '00 Dakota

Dream Garage Vehicles: 2012 Dodge Challenger

Previous Vehicles of Interest: 1970 Dodge Charger

How did you find us? Google, literally MONTHS of searching for a game like this

About:

Married, 1 kid who I may have to buy a second copy for...lol!

[kyle.gillenwater]

Name: Kyle Gillenwater

Occupation: Student (Cyber Security / Information Assurance

Location: Ohio, USA

Vehicles Currently Owned: 1986 Toyota Celcia GT-S, 1992 Honda Accord (for sale), and my newest fallen in love with 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII its the special FQ400 edition aka non american car at least to my knowledge the didnt make that version in the states.

Dream Garage Vehicles: 1967 Pontiac GTO and 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS

Previous Vehicles of Interest: 1990 F150 with the 300CI inline 6 2WD and !989 F250 460CI big block V-8 4WD

Found out about Automation: Google for games where i can build engines

About me: I enjoy working on cars and computers im Currently in college for IT

[Tazmania]

Name: Tad Dolinar

Location: Upstate New York

Occupation: Technical Support for early GM Diesel fuel systems

Vehicles Currently Owned: 2008 GMC Sierra 5.3L, 2009 Hyundai Elantra Touring

Previously Owned Vehicles: 4 Ford Rangers, 1 Ford Taurus, Ford F150, '04 Saturn Vue Redline, '89 Chevy Cavalier RS, '90 Pontiac Sunbird, AMC Spirit, 1977 Buick Regal V8.

Dream Garage Vehicles: 1970 Buick GSX Stage-1, Buick GNX, 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator, 1965 Plymouth Belvedere 440.

[Turbo Lag]

Name: Leon

Occupation: High School

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Interests: Cars, games, computers.

How did you find us? Referenced by someone known and through GTPlanet forums.

Other games I've played or am playing: iRacing, entire Gran Turismo series, Forza 1, Test Drive Unlimited 1, rFactor, Live for Speed, GTR Evolution/Race07, GTR2, Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft.

Got a Subaru Liberty 08 2.5i as my first car, I don't own it, but my parents bought it a while back, and it was my choice. I get to keep it as soon as I'm on my P's.

I'm an administrator of a TDU modding forum (http://tduforums.com/index.php), and I've been the primary physics modder for cars (modding car physics, not writing programs to mod them) since day one when physics editing became possible. You can find plenty of my mods all over the place.