Rocket Pack: Kickflipping Ardente with Auto-Land 1.0

Rocket Pack
An electric Ardente with 10 cold-gas thrusters, inspired by the 2026 rocket-car demo.​

Drive at 40 km/h, press U, and the car jumps about 7 m, rolls a full 360° over a parked Semi and lands on its wheels at about 1 m/s. No animation: real node thrusters, fired every frame by a small flight computer.

Features

• Kickflip (U / O): ~7 m jump with a full roll left or right, stabilised landing.
• Jump (K): tap for a hop, hold for ~3.4 m.
• Auto-Land (I, on by default): when the car is about to hit the ground hard it rolls upright (even from upside down), brakes its speed and fires a landing burn.
• Rear thrusters (hold G) and suction fans (Y, 2 g of downforce).
• 10 nozzles like the real thing: 4 under the floor, 2 on the front fenders, 4 at the back, all on one compressed-air tank that recharges while you drive. Each nozzle lights its own white plume and hisses with its own thrust.
• Thrusters can be torn off in a crash.

Measured

• 40 km/h kickflip over a sedan, a 3.66 m Semi and a van: 7.3 m high, touchdown 1.0 m/s, no damage, parked vehicles untouched (the run in the video).
• 10 m drop, Auto-Land off vs on: damage 18 506 vs 0. Rolled 70°: 26 413 vs 0. Upside down: ends on its roof vs lands upright (damage 1).
• 10 m drop at 50 km/h: Auto-Land touches down at 17 km/h and brakes to a stop, no damage.

How to use
Vehicle selector > Cherrier Ardente > E Rocket Pack. Or add "Rocket Pack" in the Additional Modification slot of any Ardente.
Keys: U / O kickflip, K jump, I Auto-Land, G rear thrusters, Y fans (rebind under Options > Controls, search "Rocket Pack"). Tuning: Vehicle Config > Tuning > Rocket Pack.