ETK 2400i

They were also and most luxury and executive cars.(I think)
Also on The Audi 100,5000,200,V8(Model)

 

We've all agreed that the ETK I needs a remaster, and this is what i think should be changed or added.

Added:
- RHD Australian export models
- Facelift for the 90s
- Coupe and Wagon model
- 4-cylinder as well as possible V8 versions
- Rennspecht too
- PBR interior
- Bodykits and engines
- US export models with big bumpers
- Group B version
Change
- Skinny center console and awkward dashboard
- change the Hofmeister kink to be lower
- bumpers a little more edgier

 

Proper Facelift for the 90s
The Hofmeister kink looks fine tho

 

i think its a bit too high but then if you lower it it turns more sleek

 

No

 

Talking about the front
Otherwise its just those cars that were mentioned earlier

 

Has the interior texture been updated on the ETK I Series? I don't recognize the pattern in the black interior.

 

Yeah, they updated the interior materials to PBR in the most recent update, rear seats are a bit wack though

 

Yes, I noticed a small anomaly in the rear seats, especially clearly visible on the checkered pattern.
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Here the texture is a bit broken here.

I hope he will get a full remaster soon and will be at the level of updated and new cars in the game.

 

Finally the rear seat texture has been fixed.

 

yes!, and nomi gtx front lip(the hilclimb one), deisel engines, polizi configs, derby parts, rally suspention, derby; hillclimb; and rally-gavel configs, and more asthetic tuning parts (eg: body kits, custom tailights)
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also its very unclear wether the current configs are EUDM or USDM, so the eventual remaster should fix that.
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ibishu remadge!

 

Turn signals are a bit weird, since these are the only signs of whether the car's EUDM or USDM. That and gauges.

Now, according to ETK's lore, only the facelifted cars (trim delete on body and bumpers) have clear indicators, while the older variants have amber ones. For factory models at least.

The clear indicators probably indicate a European model, as well as the metric gauges. Imperial gauges will point to a UK or US model.

Now, in most parts of North America, the indicator bulb itself has to be amber. However, the lenses can be any color as long as the amber shines through properly. So technically, the facelifted I-Series should be legal in the US, though probably not in a US DM sense.

 

yeah but there dont seem to be seperate configs, though i presume that will change with the eventual remaster.

 

Also, in EU, the clear indicators used to indicate a higher trim level (or just a better equipped low trim example). The most obvious example of this were the BMWs from the early 90s to the mid 00s; the lower end versions had amber indicators while the higher end ones and the M cars had clear ones!
Even Mini charged extra for clear front indicators in the F56!
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Accordion bumpers, we haven't seen these yet!
As for the engines:

- A 2-liter I4, for the "2000" badge.
- A 2-liter I6, for the "2000i" badge (we're missing small I6s in BeamNG after all).
- A 2-liter I4 diesel, for making a new "2000d" badge.
- A 3-liter I6 diesel, for making a new "3000d" badge.
- The "2400" trim level can go, since the 2.4 I6 won't be the base engine anymore, so the "2400i" stays as it is and it will be the main choice here.
- The "3000i" stays as it is.
- A possible small V8, say a 3.6 liter, for making a new "3600i" badge.
- Plus I'm really curious about seeing a Rennspecht model!

 

The “i” means that that engine is fuel injected, so 2000i would still be an i4. Also there’s an I-series diesel mod I have that uses d only for the base diesel models and td for the rest. And you forgot the 2400 diesel.

 

Yes, the "i" stands for "injection", but it doesn't mean the 2000 engine to have it is by law an I4. It could set the 2.0 I6 apart from the paltry carburetted 2.0 I4.
A 2400 diesel isn't something I thought, but I guess I doesn't make much sense either.

 

1. But then what would we call the fuel injected i4
2. I would link the mod but when you search for I series on this website you get a lot of mods for the d- and t- series,
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there is a 4 liter v8 mod but I think 3.6 is mor reasoble

 

Neither the W124 Mercedes or the E34 BMW had carbureted engines available, so the I-series likely wouldn't either.
It seems to be insinuating that the previous generation of i-series probably had basic carbureted versions, and they just kept using "i" as a trim level, in that classic German way of redundant nomenclature.

I'm also surprised no one's mentioned the possibility of a 2.0 I5, which could have the same bore/stroke as the 2.4 I6.

 

That's something I thought about - engines built on the same design as the existing ones, but with different cylinder counts.

Based on 2.4L - 1.6L I4, 2.0L I5, 3.2L V8 for RS or some other kind of limited-edition sport/luxury model
Based on 3.0L - 2.0L I4, 2.5L I5, 4.0L V8 for RS or etc.

A 1.6L in a car this size wouldn't be likely even in Europe, but we've had badging for a 2.0L since day 1 and it could be based on either existing engine. Frankly I think using an I5 would be cooler and probably more in-character for the car (4 cylinders = low status), and it would leave room for a 1.6L engine in a hypothetical future little brother to this car, although it would make that car a very odd duck indeed unless its top engine was a 4-cylinder based on the 3.0. And I'm not sure if a company would develop two very similar 2.0L engines at the same time for very similar purposes.

The other problem with this car is that the nomenclature doesn't make much sense except in a vacuum, and if this car is a 5-series equivalent, then you'd run into trouble trying to fix it because the modern ETK 800 series is a 3-series equivalent, indicating that ETK model range nomenclature, for some reason, begins with 600 or 700 unless they just don't have a true compact at all. If you assume that a hypothetical compact would be the 700-series, then you could call this car the 900-series, but then naming a full-size ETK would be clumsy, and the system would still struggle to deal with different-size engines having the same cylinder count. (Neither using approximate power rating as trim names nor decoupling trim names from displacement entirely were really "done" back then)

 

Regarding the possibility of a 1.6l engine, I like the idea of chopping the I-series down into a compact car, like some sort of E36 compact/Audi Coupe SWB/190E city mongrel (though admittedly they're all based off smaller cars), that way you could make weird proto-compact cars and a rally homologation beast.

on the nomenclature front, I wonder if the 8 in "846" is like the first digit of volvo or peugeot's naming, so a generational number rather than a size delineation, either being the 8th model they've made under that scheme (so since around 1990), or the 8th collective generation of cars, retroactively skipping the ~5 generations from ~1920-1990.
Of course, the second option leaves no obvious option for what any other concurrent family car models would be called, as they'd have the same generation, doors and cylinders.