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GIAT B0X1 (BOXY)

11.7k airlinerbuilder  7 months ago

Hello everybody, here's something before school starts again. In the past months i've started to be interested in cars again so i wanted to see if i was capable of building one in SP.
I've built this mostly because i wanted to test out how do you actually build one so it's not really of the highest quality, but i think that the result isn't really bad at all now isn't it?
I would really like some feedback on how i could improve my "Car Building style".

-What is this?
This is an extremely compact 2 door Citycar.
It rappresents my personal idea of what a perfect Citycar should be, taking heavy inspiration from the original 1957 Fiat 500 and from its younger cousin, the Fiat 126. The interior is instead based on the original Mini.
Talking about the specifications, it's 3.1 meters long and about 1.8 meters wide/tall, it's capable of a top speed of 200 km/h in Sport mode but i recommend driving at a maximum speed of 130 km/h as indicated on the dashboard.
I suggest driving the car mostly on paved roads since it has a pretty low ride hight and can get stuck pretty quickly on very rough terrain.

-Controls
As always, you can find the list in the in-game instructions and i'm not putting anything here since i want to save up some space this time.
Make sure to read it just to avoid any confusion.

-Lore
GIAT has always been known for their very affordable simple cars, since their inception they have been the go to company for cheap 4 wheeled trasport especially with their now iconic GIAT T70 or better known a "Shiny-Bee", a simple citycar loved by most for the cute looks and low starting and maintenance price. Unfortunately with time the T70 became less of a "people's car" and more of a fancy fashion symbol, leading to it being sold at a higher price in every new generation of the car.
This caused a large gap in the line-up between the sub 10k 2 seater microcar GIAT Bubble (T30) and the almost 20k T70.
The easier route would have been to downgrade the already existing T70 but everybody in the company felt that would have been too unpopular, with people deciding to go the extra mile so they could buy the more equipped versions.
So, in order to build this new accessible model they decided to "streamline" the design of the T70, keeping the same platform and general shape but reducing fancy unnecessary details and simplifying certain parts to keep production costs low. They ended up with an extremely simple vehicle that at the core still kept the advantages of a T70 over a T30 except the boot space, now gone because of the simpler design.
The new car was officially called T50 inside the company but everybody started calling it with a more friendly name: "B0X1" since it was the first car in the line-up to look the most like a box on wheels.
After 48 months of costant work the new car was presented at the 54th National Motor Show suffering from so critics saying that the car was too basic compared to it's older sister while getting praise for actually offering a cheaper alternative to their best seller city-car.
Soon after launch the model saw moderate success even if it couldn't reach the predicted sales figures, but they still ended up with selling well and often beating the competition in other markets too.

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-Customization Area
Here are the extra pieces you can use to personalize your B0X1:
solar panel
cargo bars
cargo container

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 5.9ft (1.8m)
  • Length 10.3ft (3.1m)
  • Height 5.4ft (1.7m)
  • Empty Weight 2,044lbs (927kg)
  • Loaded Weight 2,842lbs (1,289kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 28.704
  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 2906

Parts

  • Number of Parts 348
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,645