Update Speculation thread

Mind you the D series came out in 1986 and the GMT400 came out in mid 1987 so it's not far off styling wise to trucks of the era. but yeah the body lasting to 2003 is pushing it. But then Gavril must have been strapped for cash and they needed to delay the replacement.


I wonder if the H series would get a modern face lift model, would make sense as it wasn't uncommon for vans of it's type to have long lives. They still make the Chev express despite the platform being close to 30 years old. Oh and the Gran Marshall could do with a face lift too as that could help fill the gap for 2000's sedans.

You kinda already have that with the prefacelift, just need to remove the lightbar in the middle.

 

I'm thinking there might be another vehicle poll on the 10th anniversary of the first one.

 

Was the D-series the first car?

 

Yes.

 

Wow didn't know it was that old!

 

It was from at least May 2012, in this video.

 

Who knows, maybe it's even older?

 

There were negative reactions for wendover, when it was announced?
I'm myself more european/japanese vehicles over american, but I love this game for being so extensive with a choice of what to do or what to drive, and to be fair Wendover is one of the best cars that have been made for this game. The driving physics feel really good, which is funny, because just americans could put supercharged v8 into fwd car (talking about the sport version)

I disagree with the voting system for the vehicles like it used to be. I think the devs should just surprise us.

 

Considering only 3 people out of 300 voted for it, it didn´t really get a warm welcome.
Also, somebody here asked who the 3 people that voted for the Wendover were. Two people said that they voted for it, Superman, who hasn´t been online since 2015, and @Zorin-Ind., who has been online as recently as December 2020, so there is a good chance he has seen the Wendover. The third person remains unknown.

 

people did get quite some time to warm up for it though, Roughly 7 years or so.


its kinda hilarious that people still bring up the ancient crap from the early days

 

Oh ok. I didn't know he meant the voting, which is basically the mistake as people will massively only vote for a vehicle they would buy themselves, not for a vehicle that suits the game. Plus imo it adds just more risks for the project, because it increases the pressure of what you should do or not.

 

The D-Series makes sense on paper, as the devs basically just took the F-Series and shifted it back to be '86-'03 instead of '80-'97. While AR162B showed that it is possible to get a major pre-facelift on the current H-Series, it's going to be more difficult to pull off.

While your spreadsheet certainly is more pretty, I think this shows how extreme the '82-'02 emphasis is a bit more. I do think this era should be weighted a bit heavier as these cars are affordable but with nearly modern performance (compared to vintage cars) so they are great for career mode, but about half of our roster comes from this 2 decade span right now, which is just excessive. A lot of people seem to ignore that we have a lot of deficiencies pre-1982 as well as post-2002; both of the tails are rather skinny.

 

Yes that 2003 - 2008 ''gap in the timeline'' is really something ive been thinking about when it comes to beamng vehicles.

 

As far as I know, that's from the Rigs of Rods days, and RoR is not canon to BeamNG.

 

Its in the same universe but not canonically connected

Some kind of ''the floor is made out of floor'' type of logic

 

https://wiki.beamng.com/Burnside
I made a mistake though, it folded in 1985.

 

It's also really odd how 2006 and 2007 have no vehicles made, not to mention 1956 and 57 i think it is? the 2 years before the piccolina started.

 

1500th page

 

They don't need to be online to see it, though.

 

It's not that odd. Like I said before, major cars for derby/banger race should be from 80s and 90s (these are just cheap). Older than that would be too expensive if that car is in "cool classic" category. More modern would be too expensive to turn them into a scrap after the race. Basically every modern car in game were for testing new features like ESC, aero, unibody etc.