Update Speculation thread

Well that would explain why he shows up in documentation

 

Google image search says it's JDM

 

what r u talkin bout is clearly 1976 Hirochi Gran Thunderbirb 2.6GT-R Calibre Turbo E type X limited

but yeah at this point i am 99percent sure this is a much needed remaster of the dated 200BX, with various changes made to bring it closer to a PS13 Silvia, as opposed to the original 240SX base


As far as the front goes, just my speculation but I imagine they have added a new front clip with fixed headlights Silvia style, I can imagine there being two different models, one with the new fixed headlights, and another with the classic 200BX popups (unless they bin them for some daft reason)

As for the rear, you can also see changes have been made to make it closer to the PS13 notchback bodystyle, going of overall proportions and rear window shape (which now looks almost the same as the PS13 outline)

I am curious to see what they will do here, as the original 200BX is technically a notchback with a boot, as opposed to a 180SX which has a full rear hatch, yet in terms of proportions it is much closet to the 180


and a bit of a side note I had a feeling this would eventually happen, but I do feel a bit bad for the KLJP team, seeing as they have put a lot of work into expanding the 200BX both in terms of variety and lore. One of the worst parts of modding vanilla vehicles is when there is a remaster a la covet style, you basically have to do everything over from zero to make things compatible

At the very least I hope that the new 200BX remaster is done in such a way that it does not make all of the configs and lore behind the KLJP 200BX redundant. Especially in recent years with high quality paid lore friendly mods, the community has come up with some very creative ideas and made great efforts to contributing to the variety of vehicles in the game, and personally I think it would be nice if the dev team would acknowledge that by incorporating said ideas to an extent

 

An I6-swapped 200BX would mean that there's also another Ibishu model coming at some time because, with the obvious exception of the 4.0 I6 Hopper unit, which is too large, simple, low-revving and agricultural-like, Ibishu has no I6 engines yet and the 200BX only has a 2-liter I4 from the factory and no other engine.
As for a V8, it would be really interesting to see a 4.0l Japanese V8 made of two 2.0 I4 blocks around the same crankshaft and powering a model of an Ibishu luxury subsidiary.

 

Friendly reminder that the 200BX was supposed to get a Gavril V8 swap a few years ago, so it's probably getting one with this remaster (or maybe the Bastion engines since they're in the common folder already)

 

Wait what?

 

American-V8-swapping the 200BX gives me real Formula Drift and backyard drift project vibes, where LS-ing everything is the norm!

 

So my theory is probably correct, he is probably mostly not a part of the dev team.

 

I started typing out a response saying that a Bruckell powered 200BX is absurd since that engine is just about as big as the entire car, and the LS/Ford Modular type engine is IRL a far more common swap than the Hellcats, plus we already have one official Gavril V8 swapped into an Ibishu street car. Then I googled it and saw that there are Hellcat swapped S14's out there and I want one in Beam...

 

I thought the only Gavril swap was in the Hopper, am I missing something?

 

Yeah, I was using "street car" in the sense of street legal vehicle. It's in the street Hopper, comp Hopper, and the Rockbasher

 

ok the car when i first saw it without further examination i thought bmw upon further examination i saw that looked like a nissan but upon looking at the previous updates in order from the van remaster update it seems like the devs follow a cycle of
euro cars
japanese cars
and finally american cars
however that is not always the case and its is at most a loose schedule however because of the t-series remster and the general shape of the car we can rule out an american car
because of the shape of the headlights and front bumper im going to say it is a japanese car probably ibishu branded of the 90s that seems to be based on a nissan s13

 

BeamNG never did that but IRL the Mitsubishi 3000GT was also sold in the US as the Dodge Stealth, so what if this next car is both Japanese and American?

 

never did what the update cycle theory

 

Yes

 

never had a same car having both a US and Japanese badge

 

nuh uh. its a 2010 fiat multipla

 

For the tuning part, does it could have a V8 from Gavril or Bruckell ?

 

Rotary swap!