Update Speculation thread

That is what i mean by dark historic context. What if VW beetles reached production before WW2 and started being manufactured in Germany and Italy before things started going wrong. So production was restarted after WW2 only in Italy

 

Given some historic context, it wouldn't make any sense. Italy never needed input from the Fascist regime for mass transportation.

By the time WW2 broke out, FIAT was one of the biggest players in Europe and already had motorized Italy with the 500 Topolino and the 503 and 508 compacts, also built under license in France, Spain, Germany and Poland.

 

Either way i doubt global history is the first priority when building a fictional vehicle based off of a plethora of real vehicles in a fictional game devoted to cars. but hey, that's just me.

 

Yea but that is what happened in real life. Have you ever heard about alternate history? In some odd different world, the bad people of Germany licensed the Beetle to Italy before WW2 broke out, and after war was over the Beetle was only manufactured in Italy and thought to be an Italian car because they blew all the German prototypes and the Wolfsburg factory in the bombings.

That is a nice way to explain it so it makes sense in history, but, who cares about history in a driving game?
Just give me the darn thing to blow it with a tank

 

Exactly. That's why I think the engine means nothing.

The Hopper looks like a carbon-copy of the Jeep TJ, yet it's a japanese vehicle in game. So the new car could well be a VW Beetle bootleg, reimagined as an italian car for all we know... with absolutely no need to justify anything with some twisted "historic context".

 

Actually if you want a context of that i can give it to you as well XD

 

Except that one of the most important tenets of fascism was strengthening of the native industry.

Plus, Mussolini and Hitler were friendly, but not BFFs, and Beam's approach to realism is "like reality, unless noted".

 

I doubt they'd get this far with "alternate history" when they could just brand it as Motonelli, Civetta, Faggio, Tuazìa, you name it... without any explanation.

 

I want to put D-series solid axles under this new car.

 

or hopper solid axles, might fit better

oh and of course the 423 v8 from the barstow

 

Baja Bug when?

 

Either way if it's fascist or communist, someone needs to make a mod where there's a loudspeaker on the roof that plays propaganda or anthems.

 

so the devs -or at least one- agree, History wont be an issue. Now we can stop arguing
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like this;

but with the new Beetle500

 

Where is everyone getting Mini Cooper from? This new car ain't a Mini Cooper one bit. (The one released in the dev screens, not the one in this post I've quoted.

 

The fascists did not need propaganda vans.

Blackshirts could just explain the superiority of the fascist systems using simple, yet efficient, batons.

 

yeah i'm just including the most likely possibilities (i fully expect it to be a fiat 500 beetle mashup, i doubt there will be very much mini now that i think about it. but you never know!)

 

How the hell did you get Mini from Vw Aircooled engine? or maybe the fact that the mini had the engine in the FRONT.

 

that post just made my day haha

someone strap batons to the side of the new propaganda beam-Beetle500

 

This is interesting. It's only been a month since the last big update and we are already seeing a new vehicle.

 

i'll remove it if it disturbs you so much
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yeah that kind of makes me think that maybe there are now two vehicle schedules? (so the wait time will be less between each)