Update Speculation thread

everyone's arguing over the new car being german or italian, but what if it is a Hirochi? the Subaru 360's engine bay is quite similar, and it could be to the SBR4 like the beetle is to the porsche 911.

 

The new car has a much larger engine bay, 4 cylinders and an engine that's practiaclly a VW flat-4 carbon copy.

 

It's 99.99% Wrangler, with a Pigeon grille instead of the signature 7 slots.

I can't help thinking the FJ40 "inspiration" is nothing but an afterthought...

I thought of a small Hirochi, too, at first. I hope it's not the case, though, it would be a missed opportunity.

 

i hope it's a small italian car

 

i dont think itll be a ETK as etk is based on BMW Audi and Mercedes and non of them had a similiar car in theyr lineup. If its german itll be a new brand the same if its italian if its actually japanese wich i dont think as we already had a japanese and american the last updates its going to be a Hirochi maybe its a obviously license built car?

 

I wouldn't say it is a complete copy of Wrangler, rather an original design based on it.

 

Wow am in shock looks like we will get a car more often. This looks like it will be a all new different kind of car. I am not a fan of rear engine cars. But the SBR4 and in real life Olld Beetles and 500s are awesome. It is strange that there was a new Bus ( massive vehicle ) then this ( i think tiny ) hahahah I see what you did there. What ever it looks like in real life. What ever it's called am in . love already.

I hope Gabe gets well soon and IF we have 3 devs working on cars at once ( be it 3 different cars at the same time or all working on the same ) it will be awesome. I have to Admit Even with that year with nothing new to drive i still loved Beam lol

Good no grate work guys you are awesome.

P.S the Bus is rear engine and this looks to be.

 

if italy is infact going to be released, i think that car will most likely be italian, but otherwise id say japanese

 

you are very much correct! Small vehicles with a rear engined layout simply use a transaxle with an independent rear suspension design

 

How finished could the car be?
I think it has a fully modeled body and engine bay, no interior, basic unrefined jbeam and powertrain.

 

i think it may be farther along then we think, as i seriously doubt that they (the BeamNG Devs, specifically Falkrum) would take the time to make an almost-complete looking engine bay fully modeled and textured (and maybe even Jbeamed as it seems that the trunk -rear hood?- is open) solely for the purpose of a picture, while leaving the other 90% of the car bone dry and half-baked at the time...

but hey, i'm not a dev, who knows!

(also what do you call the hood/trunk on a rear engine car?)

+1 vote for the car being called the Shimmy Sham

i believe the hopper also has a little 90s Suzuki Jimny in it's blood;


and yet somehow it still reminds me of the Daihatsu Rocky Taft:

which, by the way, is my new favorite car haha

 

Well, maybe they did some changes how the vehicle artists make vehicles & instead of all of them working on one car, each of them works on a separate car?

 

it stands to reason that each of the Vehicle Artists may now have separate schedules, allowing for faster development and less time between updates and content creation

 

Maybe. Could this mean a faster update schedule?
I sure wasn't expecting a vehicle similar to a VW Beetle to come to the game next. I'm really excited!

 

neither was i, but i suppose with the new Italy map on it's way it was only sensible to add a small, nimble hatchback to race the tight streets of Rome

 

This will arguably be the best map added to the game. It looks like it will have excellent rally sections.

 

What Rome? There is just a bunch of small towns there.

 

If this car happens to be a Beetle-like vehicle, I hope to expect this:

 

It could be a Hillman Imp based vehicle, I've got a name prediction:
Mountman Lunger or something..
Or maybe we could be seeing a Zaporozhets? Or a TATRA kind of vehicle?
Only the devs know..

 

that was for effect, not factuality.