Update Speculation thread

Crikey.

Would be cool, unlikely.

 

gogo me gavril kangaroo

 

NO ! Gavril BAD ! gogo me Bruckell Wombat !

 

I mean, maybe like a 70s Australian kangaroomobile would fill a small niche but now Australian cars have devolved into rebadged GMs and a rebadged opel-GM thing of hell

 

gogo me aussie moonhawk ute

 

that opel clusterfuck being the Buick Regal/ Holden Astra / Opel (something)

 

Yeah it came to the point where the holden utes were the only truly unique ones.

But some type of 70s small Australian coupe or ute would be pretty nice, not sure how likely it is though. Then again they did kinda surprise us with a French car last time so who knows.

 

actually not to sink my own boat but every single Holden except for the HQ-HZ is just a rebadged, re-engineered Opel. And "just a small niche" are you kidding me ? we were absolutely huge in the '60s '70s and '80s, probably the second biggest next to the American automobile business, not to mention we also had the "big three" as Chrysler, Ford and GM, the Americans knew we where just to big a market to be ignored so they hunkered down and damn well made billions from this land making cars the world has never seen the likes of. I believe we are bigger than just a "niche"

Edit:
Also our fullsizes are just midsizes and our midsizes are small cars, we never had big cars except for imports

 

An Australian market car would be nice to have in game. I really can't think of anything that hasn't been said already in the history of the BeamNG community so I won't say much else, I just kinda wanted to show more support for such an idea than the agree button can offer.

 

With heavy modifications for the Australasian market. of course.



I wonder if the H series would end up using this front end at some point (with some modifications). Looks better than the one the H Series uses currently tbh.

 

I don't mean to be rude, but I've been around the US and watched Top Gear UK practically religiously, but I cannot remember a single Aussie car besides two Top Gear episodes... (one of which talked about the Holden UTE and the other was a competition against "∩∀ ɹɐǝƃ do┴")

 

Unless you live in Australasia you wouldn't remember many.


FYI the 1990's Diamante wagons were built in Australia (Tonsley Park) and those were sold in the US.

 

The last Pontiac GTOs were Monaro's, but the americans didn't like that we were giving them cars so they stopped that. Also the reason you never heard about our cars is because we never exported them, we did however export to South Africa until the early '70s but thats it

 

Okay, thank you... my initial reaction was "why would they make cars that were sold in such a small market? wouldn't that be kind of like making Brazilian cars?" but wanted to make sure I wasn't completely off my rocker about the market part

 

We did the p6 LTD with a 351. OT I think update will drop maybe soon. I dont think we will see the new car this update

 

God we made so many cars didn't we, wheres Bob Hawke when you need him

 

aussie spec rhd yank cars would be very nice

 

to be honest though, there's not many of them. you might be able to pass the burnside off as a "luxury" car or a ute conversion, and the bluebuck similarly as a luxury car, like an FC fairlane. The only other one which possibly could would be the D-series, though limited to pre facelift and d25/35/45 trims.
The grand marshal and Barstow don't really make sense, nor do any of the bruckell family really. maybe the roamer, if they want to go for some extreme rebadging outliers.

 

its a bit sad that we never really got true American luxury, if it had power steering, a V8 and an auto then that was it, you didn't get bucket seats, aircon, engine or trans options. The Barstow would most definitely make sense because it has a similar standing to the mustang, Dealers back in the '60s had rhd mustangs to lure customers in so they'd end up in the petty Falcon. Now i've heard of personal imports of Buicks in '50s but not dealer imports, those were more like lowly Plymouth's and chevs, its far too luxurious and alien to such a conservative market back then. Bluebuck is absolutely spot on considering that as expensive as they were Galaxies were a popular choice for the well to do and farmers (also dont you mean ZA-ZD ?). I've never heard of imports of '80s american utes and other suv's, we just didn't need them because we had cars covering that area well enough plus the size was intimidating to the average punter, and every one had gotten over their obsession with american things by then so no one wanted them anyway (save for farmers)

 

The mustang analogy kind of doesn't work for the barstow, by 69-71, the monaro, falcon coupe and charger were in full swing.
and up to the 7th gen F250s were pretty common as heavy duty work trucks, i still see a fair few around.