Update Speculation thread

I'd lean more towards getting a Pessima four-door wagon than a Pessima two-door hatchback. We've generally only seen the Pessima as a four-door model so far.

 

4 Door hatchback?

 

My take on the concept

 

For the burnside remaster, I would really love to see a 4 gears semi-automatic transmission, 2 main gears with Low/High ranges as the Chrysler M4 Vacamatic has.

The shifting between the main gears is manual and needs the clutch, but not the shifting between Low and High range wich is automated.

The torque converter is right behind the clutch, permitting to take off without the clutch. We first put any gear with the clutch, then release this last one, and we take off like an automatic transmission with the brakes and the accelerator.

This gearbox could also be in the Bluebuck in the early configs only before being discontinuited for automatic transmissions that became more efficient and less expensive with the time.

 

Wow, nice to see my old Pessima stickers getting used for something

But, I would also say an Aeroback Pessima on the cards maybe, since it's based on an Accord. Either that or a coupe.

 

btw, IIRC, the last few times there were a "finish the drawing", didn't it end up being a teaser in a way?

 

To add to the concept car idea I've always felt that the SBR4 is an understated car. It's supposed to be a mix between a BRZ and a Porsche but the car feels much more like the latter. However I feel that there's nothing that would draw the attention of anyone even though it's one of the best handling, intricately designed and most unique cars in BeamNG's roster. If it had a concept car, for example like the R35 GTR, I believe that would give it more of a name. It also needs a slight redesign if not a whole facelift model because although the car looks fabulous in my opinion, I can understand where people who say it's ugly are coming from. The car can push upwards of 800hp, it has active aero, boxer engines, handles really well, has a DCT and a decent interior with a decent selection of colors. Yet, with all the aforementioned being taken into consideration for the following, it looks small, its lineup screams mundane without even small design tweaks between models and it's supposed to be... Inspired by the BRZ cars?

Don't get me wrong, the car is definitely distinct but it feels conflicted. If they were to remaster the SBR4 I'd hope they gave it a concept car and a more committed and appropriate identity.

 

What really strikes me about this one is the sheer width of the bumper in comparison to the narrowness of the wheel track and the distance between the headlights:



...and there's something about the shape of that bumper that seems to imply something heavier-duty than the size of those tires could handle. I know these are usually done very quick-and-dirty (hence the asymmetry), but that's really, really weirding me out.

But whatever it is looks almost T-series based, so a wildly hopeful and probably over-optimistic part of me is thinking it's the U-Series at long last.

 

Personally I've never really understood why people quote a direct BRZ inspiration. To me it feels a lot more like the Japanese tried to take on the German sports cars (Cayman/R8) in lower price segment, in much the same way historically the Japanese companies have been trying to compete with the German luxury cars at a better price point. Then they gave it a poverty spec because reasons.

The SBR has been one of the remasters I've been looking foward to the most. She's a really fun sports car but definetly one with an identity crisis. No close IRL counterparts, a random electric offering deep into the production run with a crazy facelift while the ICE version didn't get updated, trim levels ranging all the way from cheap boring entry level sports car up to an end game neck snapping EV supercar and ICE time attack car...

Even though she is very much a made for game car, seeing her take more inspiration from IRL sports cars at least for configs would hopefully give her a more solid identity, plus the Cayman and R8 had some cool offerings that could inspire some awesome SBR configs. I do like the long model years with semi-random later eSBR addition since that is something Nissan tends to do with the Z and R35. That being said, turning the eSBR 800 into a concept car and giving the production electric varients a more mellow body kit would explain the random drivetrain addition so far into the model years.

As for visuals... I think she looks perfectly fine nowadays, the styling/proportion changes from a few years ago made this a genuinely nice looking car. But the version in KLJP is properly pretty and I really hope to see that bodykit inspire official content (which admittedly is reminicent of the ZN8...)

 

How am I just learning there is a facelift?

 

i think that a 60s van would be a good addition to the game maybe the old cabover econoline van/trucks under the name
gavril hi-value line

it would be a nice longer version of the h-series name plate which no company would have used in the 60s

 

It's very subtle. The T-series was split into two different eras, with the primary difference so far apparently being single round vs. stacked rectangular headlights. The round headlights are 1972-77, and the rectangular ones are from 1978-86. Some of the flavour text for configurations implies that at least one turbocharger was confined to the late models.

...In a similar vein, how am I just now finding out about this? Twin-steer is a game-changer, especially when taken in tandem with a driven front axle and raised suspension. This is going to really raise the profile of vocational trucks in the game, particularly the cement mixer and dump truck.



I'm hoping that the end result will turn out not too different from the Peterbilt 353, with the simplified industrial fenders, the raised chassis with everything tucked up out of the way, the butterfly hood, the knobby off-road tires, and the vocational heavy steel beam bumpers.



I don't know if 8x8 configurations will or won't be available. Supposedly the above image is a 353, which was available with either dead beam axles or live axles up front. I have yet to turn up any images of twin-steer trucks of the era with all axles driven, but I did find this one of a twin steer with no front differential.

----UPDATE----

Nevermind. The same archive had suspension blueprints for both 8x4, 8x6, and 8x8 configurations. It's not only possible but realistic for the T-Series (and even the TC-series) to be getting those configurations.

 

Maybe this is a teaser for Class 6-7 medium truck based on Gavril T-Series.
Something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_S_series

 

It's definitely one possibility. So is a bus based on a medium-duty truck chassis.

 

That's good to know! I especially like the fact that the demountable rim wheels are less common on facelifted versions.

Funny that you should mention that about the external air filters. I would have expected exactly the opposite - usually older American trucks tended to have the external air filters, with internal air filters becoming the standard for most manufacturers between the late-seventies to early-nineties. (Though it should be noted that sometimes only a single air external filter would be mounted on the passenger side, presumably for certain engine configurations that required only one filter.)

But it seems that International (and, weirdly enough, Dodge) bucked this trend in heavy-duty trucks by offering internal air filters on some models as early as the sixties.

 

Peugeot Ooxia , Peugeot 607 Paladine, Citroën 15/16 H ?

 

I do.

G29 (and its issues)
shitty stand
dirty
stuck buttons
one of the shifters is sticky
dusty
feels cheap
awful to use and painful to setup

 

I think a good idea would be to include some of the 911 991's more extreme variants - from a street-focused, but more enthusiast GT3-style model, to track-ready GT3 RS and GT2 RS-like models (I'm talking ~600 HP in the latter), to a faux-Ruf, to a 935-like limited production car.

And maybe make EV versions of the faux-GT3s and GT2 RS - how does a 1000+ HP BEV track car sound?