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TERRAM A-HIKER

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Hello everyone and happy easter!.....wait that was yesterday?.... Oh.....
Well here's my first ever Off-Roader. Hope you like it.

-What is this?
It's a simple compact Electric Off-Roader. And keep in mind the word "simple"in since that's the main design philosophy behind it. That's the main reason behind the squared, almost LEGO looking shape because every body part is of a basic shape with very few round shapes.
In terms of look it doesn't really have a basis in real life, but some aspects of the design are heavily rooted in IRL ispiration, especially in the front headlights that should give the same vibe as a Land Rover Defender or a Jeep.
But what i'm the most proud of is the suspensions, taking direct ispiration from the 2CV so it can give the most comfortable ride even on harsh terrain. It's also really small being shorter than 3.5 meters long and only 1.8-1.9 meters wide (basically it's smaller than a modern day Fiat 500).

-Lore
Terram is the second parent company of GIAT, since their inception they were known for making reliable off-roaders.
The A-Hiker in particular had a very peculiar history compared to it's siblings in the line up.
The founder of Terram, Will Y. North, was a worker for MCC (Markus Car Company) and during the Great Titanian war he helped with the assembly of the Type T vehicles for the military, which were simple buggys and trucks built to shuttle all sort of goods and people around. These vehicles proved themselves very reliable during the war but were quickly abandoned after the conflict since their planned obsolescence caused by the cheap and rapid construction hit entire fleets at once.
At this point Will left the company since he started working for the rapidly expanding GIAT group, now as chief engineer since he took his time to study the field and get a better job, but he kept fond memories of the machines he helped to build and the desire of making a proper version of the Type T's lingered in his mind, this time not for the military but for civilians that needed such vehicles for work like the countrymen of the country working in the mountains and fields far from cities.
Unfortunately for him GIAT didn't have any interest in such a project for several years since the company didn't have the expertise to design a car that could withstand the harsh conditions of off-road environments, especially since the company broke bank designing affordable city-cars that already struggled to run on the highway.
But Will kept pushing, saying that there was an untapped market for affordable off-roaders and work vehicles that was partially filled by modified aftermarket vans, so the higher ups decided to give his project a chance by giving him a modified platform for the T125, a 4 meters long subcompact that sold in high numbers, and told him to make his vehicle a reality.
So the B-Terrain was born...
The fact is that the platform didn't fit the size of the vehicle he wanted to build so he had to compromise his ambition making a streched yet still compact 6 seater pickup truck, the car went of to be a success but the idea for a smaller vehicle remained, but before he could push one last time for production he died and this project followed him in the tomb.
Years passed and the world moved on until there was a major discovery. Some members of the company searched in his small personal book-shelf inside of his studio and accidentally found what seemed like the blueprints for his original car, something that he worked on in secret during his free time.
Everybody in the company was happy for the discovery and for the occasion of the 20th anniversary since his death everybody soon got to work to bing the car to life. The project was kept mostly unchanged but only the EV version of the 2 proposed in the blueprints was put into production.
Production started at the same plant Will worked in during the war, since GIAT merged with MCC in the previous years, and was sold for the same price of a B0X1.
In the end the car became popular in the "great outdoors", entire remote towns were flooded with them because of their extreme practicality as work vehicles but they remained in their natural habitat and were a rare sight in denser urban areas because of regulations limiting off roaders access to cities, even with lighter repercussions because of the vehicles low weight and small footprint.

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 6.6ft (2.0m)
  • Length 11.3ft (3.4m)
  • Height 6.4ft (1.9m)
  • Empty Weight N/A
  • Loaded Weight 2,177lbs (987kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 390.158
  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 2914

Parts

  • Number of Parts 341
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,892