1953 Burnside Special

why not a split bench seat and 4 door hardtop as well, also an option for a floor shift (for us hotrodders) and a two spoke steering wheel

 

I think the Burnside is really neglected, which is sad because it's an awesome little car. I'd love to see a hardtop, maybe a coupe (even take a page from the shoebox era Ford's with a performance club coupe), and a convertible option. Powertrain selection could certainly be a little more varied - e.g. some of Gavril's later 60's model engines installed in a hot rod config. In fact, a Gavril name and facelifted trim level would be interesting - like Chevy's Bel Air vs. Pontiac's Chieftain/Star Chief.

 

hmmm
over 1800 kilos

 

The led sled, custom, and drag config use the 6.9L megathrust from the factory special edition Barstows.

 

The Special is just a bit too old for a factory floor shifter or a 4-door hardtop.

Kinda a shame that the devs didn't make a more interesting late 50s car (though that would be too much like the Bluebuck).

 

a floor shift for non factory hi-po configs and a late fifties car would absolutely be nothing like the bluebuck, which is from the early sixties, a very conservative time in automotive design. Now the late fifties was a proper wild time for designs and would have not one thing in common with the early sixties (except maybe the chassis)

 

Fine, cute, but average-size American sedan.

You're right, I never even noticed that - my bad! For years I thought it was using that 313ci(?) engine and only had I6 options, how strange, total Mandela Effect situation.

 

the weird thing is, not only does it look like a burnside engine (which could just be because they couldn't be bothered porting the barstow's mesh), it's also called a "megathrust", where the 423 in the bubu and barstool are called "ultra thrust", leading me to believe it's perhaps a previous generation of 423, though this may just mean it's one swapped in from a late 50's burnside.

 

I'd think a later burnside (from 57-59 per say) would have had the Megathrust, and this was a swap.
Having a 7 liter V-8 in a car from 1953 is a bit extreme.

 

Even in a late 50s car 7 litres would have been a really big engine. The only exception could be some performance special like a Chrysler 300, and even then 423 ci would have been a bit big.

 

You literally have the free-forming creativity of a stone.

 

Beam's universe very much isn't freeform.

 

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Hirochi SBR4

 

SBR4, Piccolina, Hopper, maybe K-Series and Sunburst.

At best 5 cars of over 20, and only one of them is really untraceable.

 

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The SBR4 is pretty much a japanese reinterpretation of the Porsche 911, and declaredly an experiment by gabester to style a car with no particular reference or template.

Everything else has easily traceable, deep roots in the Real World™... except when they chose not to equip the Piccolina with turn signals...
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Mostly pop-culture references.

 

The scenarios, gamemodes, names and customisations may be fictional, but the cars take a lot of real-life inspiration.
And even stuff like the ram plow, cop Bolide or Megathrust engine stem from real-life stuff - the plow from one of the Mythbusters episodes, the Bolide from a police Lambo Gallardo, and the Megathrust from actual early 60s performance engines.

Also, D-Series? Chevy C/K, with some Ford F-Series. Grand Marshal? Caprice+Crown Vic. 800-Series? 3-Series. Covet? Civic. etc., etc.

 

You make it sound like they don't have any creativity behind them.
Correct me if I'm wrong but a Japanese rear-engined sports coupe with four seats (that seat 4 adults comfortably) is pretty hard to pinpoint in real life.

 

Okaaayy...

Let's try to get off of the ad-hominem attacks and the argument over what is and isn't fantasy in BeamNG.

Back to the Burnside.

I think that maybe an external (to the gearbox) overdrive unit would be an interesting factory option - I hear that those were in vogue at the time of the Burnside and might be an interesting thing to have simulated from a driving-dynamics point of view.